Equity Future

Equity Future

Some individual investors are surprised to discover that futures markets include many types of stock trading products. Equity-based futures are some of the most hotly traded in the world.

Exchange and regulatory developments are revealing more about the makeup of individual equity futures. While we wait for the parties involved to get the contracts off the ground, here's a fundamental primer on these products from a trader's perspective.

It took 18 years, but individual equity futures are here and are about to change the financial landscape of the markets we trade. Individual equity futures are contracts for the future delivery (or cash settlement) of a basket of one company's stock or a narrow index of stocks.