Im having a baby and i love the name Ellie but don't know what the full name should be?
In finance, a futures contract (more colloquially, futures) is a contract between two parties to buy or sell an asset for a price agreed upon today (the futures price) with delivery and payment occurring at a future point, the delivery date.
How Stock Futures Work. A stock future is a contract to buy or sell a specific amount of stock for a certain price on a set future date. See more banking pictures. In the past couple of years, the U.S. stock market has been volatile.