Single Stock Futures
A Trader's Guide
Chapter One
A Simple Q&A
This section introduces many of the key concepts concerning Single Stock
Futures (SSFs) in a simple question-and-answer (Q&A) format. We list
references where you can get more details on the concepts within this book.
Readers determined to read our words of wisdom from cover to cover may
wish to skip this section and go straight to the nitty-gritty of the editorial, but
we feel this method helps as a reference to the book itself.
Q. What are SSFs?
A. Very simply they are an agreement to buy or sell a contract based on an
underlying equity for settlement or delivery at a pre-specified date in the future.
Q. Why haven't we had SSFs before when there have been futures on just about
everything else?
A. Well, SSFs were originally born in Amsterdam several hundred years ago,
but in recent times they have not been overly popular. Some relatively peripheral
exchanges listed them in the late 1980s ... read full excerpt from Single Stock Futures: A Trader's Guide ebook
