Peter Gratton, M.A.P.P., Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex ...

Non-commercial traders use futures markets for speculation, seeking profits from price changes without direct business ...

Managed futures strategies are seeing increased interest from advisors and investors on the VettaFi sites who are looking to pivot their portfolios in a market environment of continued volatility.

The crypto bear market in 2018, which saw the price of bitcoin drop by over 73 percent and those of altcoins drop by over 90 percent, made an excellent case for the need to hedge digital asset ...

Oil exchange-traded funds opened higher on Tuesday, tracking a rise in crude futures as investors weigh the immediate supply ...

Decentralized derivatives exchange SynFutures announced a new product called Bitcoin (BTC) Hash Rate Futures that uses the biggest cryptocurrency’s ever-changing mining difficulty as a basis to open ...

MIAMI – A municipal futures contract can be a useful risk management tool for many in the marketplace, attendees at The Bond Buyer’s National Municipal Bond Summit here were told. Processing Content ...

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Hedge funds have swung their bitcoin-futures bets to the bullish side for the first time, a marked turn around from a few weeks ago, according to figures released on Friday. The data from the ...

Hedge funds boosted bullish bets on crude to the most since November in the week before the US capture of Venezuelan ...