Sentence examples for purchasing futures from inspiring English sources

The long speculators are those who expect the price to rise above the current level and assume risks by purchasing futures contracts.

The Hollywood Stock Exchange, for example, lets people bet play money on the box office success of movies and stars by purchasing futures contracts.

So unless ­investors are willing to accept the 1.8% yield on low-volatility government bonds, they have to apply leverage, either with margin debt or by purchasing futures to double or triple the nominal size of the holdings.

The fear that prompts firms to purchase futures (the contracts traded on the CME to protect firms against changes, for instance, in the level of a currency and the price of energy) was less acute.

But the most efficient way to mitigate fuel costs (particularly over time) is to purchase futures contracts that lock in a company's fuel supply for the coming year at a set price.

Futures are price bets, which means you purchase futures when you think prices will rise, and you sell futures when you think prices will sink.

If possible, use the lottery money you've won to purchase future tickets.

You do that by purchasing wine futures for 9-liter cases from a large wine merchant.

However, a more likely situation is that the provider would independently predict future demand based on past performance and would purchase electricity futures based on this forecast.

The cloud provider subsequently uses this information to purchase electricity futures.

For electricity, we assume that the provider may purchase electricity futures for a period of four weeks, which supplies 1MWh of electricity per hour.