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Commodity futures contract

An agreement to buy a specific amount of a commodity at a specified price on a particular date in the future, allowing a producer to guarantee the price of a product or raw material used in production.

Commodity Futures Contract

An agreement to buy and sell a commodity at a certain date at a certain price. For example, Investor A may make a contract with Farmer B in which A agrees to buy a certain number of bushels of B's corn at $15 per bushel. This contract must be honored whether the priceof corn goes to $1 or $100 per bushel. Commodity futures contracts can help reduce volatility in the normally volatile commodity markets, but contain the risks inherent to all speculative investing. These contracts may be sold on the secondary market, but the person holding the contract at its end must take delivery of the underlying. See also: Carrying charge, Options contract.

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Considering that most commodity futures contracts have face values in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, it is easy to surmise that these contracts are for large accounts.

The Conundrum of Small Managed Futures Accounts by Mark Soltys / Finance and Investment community

Considering that most commodity futures contracts have face values in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, it is easy to surmise that these contracts are for large accounts.

The Managed Futures Small Account Conundrum by Mark Soltys / Advertising, marketing, public relations community

In February Feedinfo News Service reported that Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group announced the launch of Distillers' Dried Grain (DDG) agricultural commodity futures contracts, scheduled to begin trading on April 26.

Cargill Notes Growing Ethanol Demand by Feedinfo News Service

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