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Security Futures
Financial markets today offer an ever-widening array of financial products. Among the most recent are security futures which include futures contracts on common stocks and on a narrow-based index of securities. Security futures trading can provide new opportunities for managing the price risks inherent in volatile equity markets as well as profiting from expected price movements in these markets. Learn about these strategies as well as the risks of security futures trading.
 Author: National Futures Association 		Trading in Futures
Trading in futures can provide considerable financial reward. Futures speculation, however, also involves substantial risk. The key to avoiding the pitfalls and reaping the rewards is to develop your trading skills and knowledge of the markets. This booklet was created to help you take the first step. It provides a thorough introduction to futures trading for those who have had only minimal exposure to the futures markets.
 Author: Chicago Board of Trade 		Options on Futures
With options on futures, traders can construct strategies that profit in advancing, declining or even stable markets, while at the same time reducing risk and increasing leverage. However, before you incorporate options into your trading and risk management decisions, you should thoroughly investigate the risks, nomenclature and strategic uses of these instruments. The more background you have in options, the more likely you will be able to take full advantage of these powerful financial instruments.
 Author: Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Buying Options on Futures
Although futures contracts have been traded on U.S. exchanges since 1865, options on futures contracts were not introduced until 1982. Today, options on futures contracts offer a wide and diverse range of potentially attractive investment opportunities. This booklet is designed to provide you with a basic understanding of options on futures contracts - what they are, how they work and the opportunities and risks involved in trading them.
 Author: National Futures Association 		Understanding Opportunities and Risks of Futures Trading
Futures markets are worldwide meeting places of buyers and sellers of an ever-expanding list of products that includes financial instruments such as U.S. Treasury bonds, stock indexes, and foreign currencies as well as traditional agricultural commodities, metals, and petroleum products. For those individuals who fully understand and can afford the risks that are involved, the allocation of some portion of their investment capital - the portion that is truly risk capital - to futures speculation can provide a means of achieving greater portfolio diversification and a potentially higher overall rate of return on their investments.
 Author: National Futures Association

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THE RISK OF LOSS IN TRADING COMMODITY CONTRACTS CAN BE SUBSTANTIAL.
YOU SHOULD, THEREFORE, CAREFULLY CONSIDER WHETHER SUCH TRADING IS
SUITABLE FOR YOU IN LIGHT OF YOUR FINANCIAL CONDITION. FUTURES AND OPTIONS
TRADING IS NOT SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.