Speculative vs Hedging Trading

The purpose of speculative trading is to trade financial assets in hope of gaining profits. Traders that are speculators are not producers of the commodity that they are trading futures contracts of; and if a trader is trading stock index futures such as E-Micro S&P or E-Mini NASDAQ, they can only be speculative traders.

Hedging is the act of preventing an investment against price fluctuations of a specific commodity. For example, if someone is a farmer that is using the futures market to prevent against price fluctuations of corn; they are a hedging trader.

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