Market
Futures
Protection for your investments
The Futures Market, facilitates the transferring of risk amongst the financial agents. Due to the expectations created by these markets, the risk flows directly to the future formation of prices of commodities and financial assets.
The main objective of the Futures Market is to protect the market as a whole, against strong price fluctuations, providing stability for investors, financial institutions, primary goods producers, the industry and the commerce. That’s why, in these markets, the prices of future payments converge with at cash prices.
There are three distinct ways to participate in this market: as hedger, speculator or arbitrator.
All future operations are executed under contract. To act in this market, the investor must make a previous cash deposit as an initial margin. Each product has its own guarantee margin, which varies according to the market conditions and the due expire date of the contract. Thus, the longer term of the contract, the greater the margin.