There are other instruments and few of them are briefly covered here.

By combining options and/or stock into spreads, the investor can add even more flexibility to his

For aggressive investors who are very bullish about the prospects for a stock / index, buying calls can...

The optionality characteristic of options results in a non-linear payoff for options. 

The writer of the Call Option is generally bearish, while the writer of the Put Option is...

There are four types of participants in options markets depending on the position they ...

Options, are another type of derivative instruments. Some people might say options are bit complex...

Stock index futures have become the most popular financial derivative instruments and widely traded all...

A futures spread is simply the simultaneous trading of one contract against another.

If on the expiry date, the actual price of Reliance Industries is Rs 1300, Mahesh can buy the shares at...

A future contract, unlike the privately-traded forward contract, is publicly traded. 

Before discussing this concept lets discuss about spot market. In a spot market, what you generally do?

Due to complexity in nature, it is very difficult to classify the financial derivatives.

A derivative is an instrument whose value is derived from the value of one or more basic variables called bases...

As you are aware the financial derivatives have become increasingly popular and most commonly used in