Concept information
Preferred term
futures trading
Type
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Topic
Definition
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An agreement between two people, one who sells and agrees to deliver and one who buys and agrees to receive a certain kind, quality, and quantity of product to be delivered during a specified delivery month at a specified price.
Source: Agriculture Fact Book, USDA
Type: Concept definition
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Synonyms
- futures contracts
- futures exchange
- futures markets
- futures prices
- hedge to arrive contracts
- hedge-to-arrive contracts
In other languages
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Spanish
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/28150
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