futures contract

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 price (the futures price).

Translations

contract traded on a futures exchange

Chinese: Mandarin: 期貨合約, 期货合约 (qīhuò héyuē), 期貨 (zh), 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 Japanese: 先物取引 (さきものとりひき, sakimono torihiki), 先物 (さきもの, sakimono) Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: фью́черсный контра́кт m (fʹjúčersnyj kontrákt), фью́черс (ru) m (fʹjúčers) Spanish: contrato de futuros (es) m