The phrase "amount of futures" is not correct in standard written English.
The term "futures" typically refers to financial contracts, and the correct expression would be "number of futures" or "volume of futures."
Example: "The amount of futures traded today was significantly higher than last week."
Alternatives: "number of futures" or "volume of futures."
In a report to be released on Wednesday, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will recommend that regulators sharply limit the amount of futures trading by index investors.
The Dodd-Frank Act, the financial regulatory overhaul enacted last year, requires the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to limit the amount of futures contracts that a single trader or firm can hold on certain commodities.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's so-called position limits rule, which stems from the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul, would cap the amount of futures contracts that a single trader or firm can hold on certain commodities.
The Dodd-Frank financial overhaul requires the commission to limit the amount of futures contracts that a single trader or firm can hold on a commodity, though the law failed to offer much guidance on the scope of the limits.
The position limits would cap the amount of futures contracts that a single trader or firm can hold on 28 commodities like oil, wheat and corn, a response to wild price fluctuations that can hurt consumers at the gas pump and in the supermarket.
Rogue Traders and Terrorists There have been stories claiming that certain investors sold a large amount of futures or bought a large amount of puts just before the crash began.
We are committed to a certain amount of future climate change even if we curtail our emissions quickly.
But with the departure of blue-chip clients like Delta Air Lines and Merck, the amount of future cash available for such payments has declined.
It's true that some amount of future change is inevitable, the result of all carbon we've spewed into the atmosphere over the past hundred years and more.
In additional analyses, we consider whether IRS attention to a restatement leads to an increase in the amount of future tax settlements.
Where travel agents selling package tours compete with the internet, the luxury, bespoke market has a certain amount of future proofing.
