A stock market trader who deals in futures contracts.
futures traders have been aggressively buying gold
Example sentencesExamples
With Labor Day in sight, futures traders are starting to dump gasoline.
It introduces the novice futures trader to important concepts in a clear, concise manner.
Futures traders are gamblers, betting on whether a stock will hit a certain level by a certain day in the future, without having to actually buy shares.
A law has been passed to protect securities investors and futures traders, but it has yet to take effect.
Charles, an oil futures trader, has made a fortune in the past two months.
Derivatives
futures trading
noun
Finance
I am currently teaching him the art of futures trading.
Example sentencesExamples
Artificial hoarding by middlemen can be avoided by encouraging futures trading in vanilla.
The group also has a big futures trading operation in Chicago.
Heretofore, he has written extensively on the history of the regulation of commodity futures trading.
The Government should also encourage the use of futures trading among farmers.