Futures Contracts Quotes

In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the corner waiting for a little flame.

MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.

The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.

To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.

People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves against risk.

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.

Anything commodity-like will be sold online. The world is going to trade commodities like it trades stocks.

I'm a futures man.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.