Contracts for difference
A bilateral bet on a price move with your broker, leveraged, financed daily, and losing money for the substantial majority o…
No. 023Financial spread betting
A CFD in different legal clothing: a tax-free bet on a price move for UK residents, which is both its main attraction and a …
No. 029Futures contracts
A standardised, exchange-cleared agreement to trade something at a set price on a set date — the oldest financial derivative…
No. 036Interest rate swaps
An exchange of fixed payments for floating ones, invisible to the public and one of the largest markets on earth by notional…
No. 044Options
The right, but not the obligation, to trade at a set price — which makes the payoff asymmetric and the pricing genuinely dif…
No. 049Prediction markets
Contracts that settle at one or zero depending on whether something happens, turning a probability into a price — and sittin…
No. 065Weather derivatives
Contracts that pay out based on temperature, rainfall or wind, letting businesses hedge the one variable nobody controls.