The Chapter aims to explain:

• The Chapter aims to explain:Insight into Financial Futures: Explains the trading of standardized contracts for hedging risk or speculating on financial instruments.

• Roles in the Market: Discusses how speculators aim to profit from price changes while hedgers aim to mitigate risk exposure.

• Institutional Trading: Details how financial institutions use futures to manage risks effectively.

• Futures Contract Basics: Covers the mechanics of futures contracts, including long and short positions, and margin trading.

• Introduction to Options: Introduces options markets, outlining key concepts such as call and put options, exercise price, and premium.

• Options Strategies: Explores strategic uses of options, including various bullish and bearish approaches and their potential financial outcome.

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