Kansas_City_Board_Of_Trade

Kansas City Board Of Trade Robyn Fletcher The Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) is a place where buyers and sellers gather to trade their commodities. That KCBT they get together to buy and sell hard red winter wheat, the Value Line Index, natural gas, and the ISDEX Internet stock index. Future and options contracts can be lock into a purchase price or sale price in advance, which lowers the risk of volatile prices. This is known as hedging. Future contracts are agreement between a buyer and seller to deliver a product for a certain date in the future. When these contracts are made the price, quantity, and delivery date have already been preset. In option contracts he gives the buyer or the seller to take hold of the product in the future, but isn’t required. In dealing with option contracts you have to look at a few words, in order to understand what going on. First you have “put”, which gives you a chance to take short futures position of product, so you don’t worry about downward price movement. Second you have “call”, which gives you a chance to take long futures position of product, so price, contracts, trading, it’s, don’t, think, sellers, product, future, buyers, take, place, pit, out, option, kcbt, kansas, hear, gives, city, yell, worth, worry, way, trades, trade, time, seller, really, prices, position, person, order, one, natural