Salmon Thrust

1.1 Futures Contract

1.2 History of Futures Trading

1.3 Pop Quiz

1.4 Tell us what you think

2.1 Standardisation of Terms

2.2 Expiration Dates

2.3 Contract Value

2.4 Trading Hours

2.5 Contract Standardisation Promotes Liquidity

2.6 Pop Quiz

2.7 Tell us what you think

3.1 Futures Margins

3.2 Mark-to-Market

3.3 Settlement Price

3.4 Price Limits

3.5 Offsetting Futures Positions

3.6 Cash Settlement

3.7 Special Quotation

3.8 Pop Quiz

3.9 Tell us what you think

4.1 The Basis

4.2 Basis Convergence

4.3 Cash-Futures Arbitrage

4.4 Pop Quiz

4.5 Tell us what you

5.1 Outright Futures Trading

5.2 Rolling Positions

5.3 Spread Trading

5.4 S&P-Nasdaq Index Spread Example

5.5 Pop Quiz

5.6 Tell us what you think

6.1 Popular Fund Management Applications

6.2 Beta Adjustment

6.3 Cash Equitization

6.4 Creating Equity Out of Cash

6.5 130-30 Strategies

6.6 Portable Alpha

6.7 Pop Quiz

6.8 Tell us what you think

Instructions

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