Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Despite its relatively short history, the energy futures contract has become an essential part of the modern financial system, thanks to its efficiency in controlling volatility in the price of ...

Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. A futures spread is a trading strategy in which a trader holds both a long and a short ...