Richie R. Ma
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  • How to rollover futures contracts?
  • Price discovery
  • Continuous Futures Data Construction
  • Price limit days in agricultural futures markets

I would like to share my own two cents about futures research and hope that they will encourage further research on futures markets.

How to rollover futures contracts?

Rolling from an expiring contract to the next one is a common practice in futures trading. Even though it is as simple as closing the front-month leg and opening the back-month leg, there is not so much guidance on how to trade during this period. I find exchange-traded calendar spread contracts are pretty useful for this purpose…

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Price discovery

Price discovery is one of the well-known financial terms…

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Continuous Futures Data Construction

Every futures contract has its expiration date, and no data are available afterwards. Thus, we need to construct a “continuous” futures by rolling from an expiring contract to the next one…

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Price limit days in agricultural futures markets

Price limit is one of the ways that exchanges would use to monitor trading activities, especially extreme price movements. In the agricultural futures markets, CME has implemented different price limit schedules…

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