futures contract

English

Noun

futures contract (plural futures contracts)

1. (finance) A standardized contract, traded on a futures exchange, to buy or sell a standardized quantity of a specified commodity (or financial instrument) of standardized quality at a certain date in the future, at a stated price (the futures price).

Synonyms

• futures

Translations

contract traded on a futures exchange

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 期貨合約／期货合约 (qīhuò héyuē), 期貨／期货 (zh) (qīhuò), 期貨交易合同／期货交易合同 (qīhuò jiāoyì hétóng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: futuurisopimus, futuuri (fi)
• French: contrat à terme m
• German: Futures-Kontrakt m, Terminkontrakt m, Future (de) n
• Indonesian: kontrak berjangka
• Japanese: 先物取引 (さきものとりひき, sakimono torihiki), 先物 (ja) (さきもの, sakimono)
• Kazakh: фьючерс (füçers)
• Korean: 선물(先物) (ko) (seonmul)
• Kyrgyz: фьючерс (fyucers)
• Persian: قرارداد آتی
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: фью́черсный контра́кт m (fʹjúčersnyj kontrákt), фью́черс (ru) m (fʹjúčers)
• Spanish: contrato de futuros (es) m
• Tamil: முன்பேர ஒப்பந்தம் (muṉpēra oppantam)
• Thai: สัญญาซื้อขายล่วงหน้า (th) (sǎn-yaa-sʉ́ʉ-kǎai-lûuang-nâa)
• Turkish: future sözleşme
• Ukrainian: ф'ю́черсний контра́кт m (fʺjúčersnyj kontrákt), ф'ю́черс m (fʺjúčers)
• Vietnamese: hợp đồng tương lai

See also

• actuals
• forward contract

Further reading

• John Smullen, Nicholas Hand, editors (2005), “futures contract”, in A Dictionary of Finance and Banking, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 174