Deferred futures — The most distant months of a futures contract. A bond that sells at a discount and does not pay interest for an initial period, typically from three to seven years. Compare step up bond and payment in kind bond. The New York Times Financial… … Financial and business terms
deferred futures — The most distant months of a futures contract. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary … Financial and business terms
deferred delivery — Futures trading in distant delivery months. The CENTER ONLINE Futures Glossary … Financial and business terms
Futures and promises — In computer science, future, promise, and delay refer to constructs used for synchronization in some concurrent programming languages. They describe an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially not known, usually because the… … Wikipedia
Deferred Option Month — The latter month or months of an option or futures contract. For example, when considering a three month option at the time of purchase months two and three could be thought of as deferred. In the second month of ownership, the third month could… … Investment dictionary
Deferred Month — The latter month(s) of an option or futures contract. For example, when considering a three month option at the time of purchase, months two and three could be thought of us deferred. In the second month of ownership, the third month could be… … Investment dictionary
deferred pricing — A method of pricing where a producer sells his commodity now and buys a futures contract to benefit from an expected price increase. Although some people call this hedging, the producer is actually speculating that he can make more money by… … Financial and business terms
deferred (delivery) month — The more distant month( s) in which futures trading is taking place, as distinguished from the nearby ( delivery) month. Chicago Board of Trade glossary … Financial and business terms
calendar spread — The purchase of one delivery month of a given futures contract and simultaneous sale of another delivery month of the same commodity on the same exchange. The purchase of either a call or put option and the simultaneous sale of the same type of… … Financial and business terms
nearby — The futures contract month with the earliest delivery period. The CENTER ONLINE Futures Glossary The nearest active trading month of a financial or commodity futures market. Related: deferred futures. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary The nearest… … Financial and business terms
Back Months — The available futures contracts for a particular commodity that possess expirations or delivery dates furthest into the future. Also referred to as deferred futures or forward months. Back month futures contracts may have identical actuals as… … Investment dictionary