School’s in session. Let’s talk about math. Go back to your calculus class senior year in high school. You take the derivative of y with respect to x. You are finding the sensitivity to the change in ...

The derivatives market doesn’t deal with fungible assets. Instead, it’s a secondary market focused on the volatility of capital markets and assets. As the name implies, the financial products traded ...

Demanding Diversity Through Uniformity“Derivatives” have gone from being the hottest thing on Wall Street to being the hottest thing in Washington. Indeed, President Obama -- who mentioned them no ...

Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin issued a call on Tuesday for regulation of the “over the counter” derivatives market, which has an estimated size of about $596 trillion. By contrast, the value of the world’s ...

A derivative is a financial contract that pays cash flows or delivers other financial instruments in the future, dependent on the value of an underlying asset, such as equities, indices, foreign ...

The $650 trillion derivatives market is a nightmare scenario waiting to happen. First problem: the size. It's 36 times the size of the U.S. GDP and over eight times larger than the world GDP, that is, ...

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 ...

If you took an opinion poll and asked Americans what they considered the biggest threat to the world economy to be, how many of them do you think would give "derivatives" as an answer? But the truth ...

Leveraged ETFs offer traders a way to gain exposure to certain market indexes without investing direct capital into their components. Unlike typical ETFs that are primarily composed of stocks, ...