A legally binding contract between two parties to sell/ purchase, on future delivery terms, a specific quantity of shares of a single stock or of a narrow-based stock index, at a certain price. An investor who purchases a security futures is legally obligated to buy an underlying security at a predetermined future date, whereas a counterparty who sells that security futures is, too, legally bound to sell the underlying security at that future date.
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