Understanding Hedging in Futures
What is hedging? One of the most important uses of futures is hedging. Hedging means hedge in Hindi. Hedging is used to protect
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Understanding Futures Prices
Price Formula If you take any course in futures trading, then you will be first told about the formula for determining the price
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Understanding Index Futures – Nifty Futures
Fundamentals of Index Futures Nifty futures have a special place in the derivatives market of India. Nifty futures are the most traded in
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What is Short Sell – Shorting?
Shorting (Short Selling) We had a small discussion in Module 1 about what shortening is. Now in this chapter, we will discuss in
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Margin Calculator Part2
Trade Deal Information We begin this chapter with an old question – why do you think margins are imposed? Now let us repeat
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What is Margin Calculator? Part1
In the previous chapter, we talked about margins. Taking the same forward, we will now talk about the margin calculator. Along with this,
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Margin & Mark to Market – Futures Trading
Margin plays the most important role in futures trading. In fact, margin is what makes futures trading different from spot trading as it
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Understanding Leverage & Payoff in Futures Trading
In the previous chapter, with the example of TCS, we learned how futures trading works. In that example, we bought shares of TCS
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Introduction to Futures Trading
In the previous chapter, we have understood some of the principles related to the futures market. Remember that the futures market is a
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Introduction to Futures Contract
The previous chapter saw the example of several straight forward contracts, where two parties enter into an agreement with each other that in
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