Equity Futures

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FX Street  Nov 18  Comment 
U.S. Equity futures are trading sideways to lower after an attempt to reach a new high for the week overnight failed.  December E-mini S&P 500 futures made a high this week at 1112.00.  A breakout above this level could trigger a sharp rally to...
FX Street  Oct 26  Comment 
A sharp break in the equity futures markets is helping to drive up the U.S. Dollar at the mid-session. Equity markets stopped going up after an early attempt by traders to take out last week’s highs fizzled. Money leaving the stock market went...
FX Street  Oct 19  Comment 
Traders expecting upbeat earnings reports this week are helping to drive up stock index futures this morning.  Investors seem to be optimistic that the positive earnings trend will continue.  Technical indicators continue to signal overbought...
FX Street  Oct 16  Comment 
U.S. equity markets have stabilized at the mid session following a sharp sell-off early in the trading session. Selling pressure is coming from a weak financial sector as traders are cutting long positions following a huge loss by Bank of America...
FX Street  Oct 13  Comment 
U.S. equity futures are trading higher after the close following a better than expected earnings report from Intel.  Throughout the day the markets treaded water as traders were unwilling to commit heavily to either side prior to the release of...
FX Street  Oct 12  Comment 
U.S. equity futures markets posted a new high for the year early this morning, but have since gone into a range. Despite the upside limitations, the indices are managing to hold on to their early morning gains. Trading has been limited today...
FX Street  Oct 2  Comment 
Today, the U.S. Non-Farm Payroll Report will be released.  Early guesses are for a loss of about 175,000 to 225,000 jobs.  The Unemployment Rate is expected to come in a 9.8%   U.S. equity futures are trading slightly lower after yesterday’s...
FX Street  Aug 4  Comment 
Although U.S. equity markets closed higher, today’s day session was one of the choppiest seen in some time as traders seemed reluctant to print the high tick.  Today’s trading action is a sign that these indices may be getting tired at...
FX Street  Jul 27  Comment 
Equity futures edged slightly better after trading most of the day lower and at the mid-point of the day-session charts.  Traders tried to rally the indices early after a better than expected New Home Sales Report sent the Dow and S&P 500 futures...
FX Street  Jul 7  Comment 
The euro hit a high for Tuesday morning trading after stronger than surveyed German manufacturing figures suggested the country's economy was improving, but gains were limited as the market remained cautious about risk. The retraction of risk...
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An Equity futures contract traded on an organized exchange. In this contract parties commit to buy or sell a specified amount of an individual equity or a basket of equities or an equity index at an agreed contract price on a specified date.

Equity futures are of two types :-

Index Future :- This type of equity future has a index as its underlying. Like Dow Jones future. It sattles in cash sattlement only on a specified date.

Stock Future :- This kind of future contract has a stock as its underlying and stock price defines the value of a future contract. generally sattled in cash or stock.

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