James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Chip Stapleton is a Series 7 and Series 66 license holder, CFA Level 1 exam holder, and currently holds a Life, ...

Derivatives are financial contracts. Their value comes from an underlying asset. The asset can be a stock, index, commodity or currency. Traders do not buy the asset directly. They trade on expected ...

What Is an Over-the-Counter (OTC) Derivative? An over-the-counter (OTC) derivative is a financial contract that does not trade on an asset exchange, and which can be tailored to each party's needs. A ...

Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

There are a variety of pre-trade and derivatives trading tools that help examine market sentiment and formulate options strategies. This analysis explores such tools using the September 2024 Hong Kong ...

Equity derivatives, as we know them today, are financial instruments that derive their value from price movements of underlying assets, typically a stock or stock index. They’re popular with traders ...

As part of our ongoing effort to educate investors and make markets more accessible, @Nasdaq launched its Derivatives Academy, an intuitive e-learning program built to satisfy the explicit need for ...

Whilst the themes of automation and the infusion of artificial intelligence into daily workflows for buy-side trading desks have been thoroughly socialized by industry practitioners, ever so quietly ...

Crypto derivatives have become the backbone of modern digital asset markets, powering liquidity and risk management for both retail and institutional players. In 2024, derivatives trading volumes ...