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Different Parties in the Futures Market | Finance Train

Derivatives with R

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Overview of Derivatives with R Tutorial

How to Create Futures Continuous Series

Exploring Crude Oil (CL) Future Data from Quandl in R

R Visualization of Statistical Properties of Future Prices

Comparing Futures vs Spot Prices for WTI Crude Oil

Different Parties in the Futures Market

Creating Term Structure of Futures Contracts Using R

Contango and Backwardation

Exploring Open Interest for Futures Contracts with R

Review of Options Contracts

Black Scholes Options Pricing Model in R

Binomial Option Pricing Model in R

Understanding Options Greeks

Options Strategy: Create Bull Call Spread with R Language

Options Strategy: Create Long Straddle with R Language

Different Parties in the Futures Market

The future market is composed of different types of agents that go to the futures market for a specific purpose. These agents raise the trading volume and open interest during the contract life. Overall the futures market is composed of speculators and hedgers.

Speculators

The speculators can be classified into market makers, day traders and position traders.

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