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Sellers will find ready buyers, and buyers will find sellers. Less liquid are the less actively traded "small cap" (low capitalization) stocks, for which it may be harder to quickly find a buyer or seller at the desired price. On the other hand, the S&P 500 and E-Mini futures contracts are exceptionally liquid: Trades can be executed within seconds, since there are almost always buyers and sellers to take the opposite side. Liquidity is usually found in markets on which standardized contracts are traded and in which there is a large amount of active participation.
Usually, the speculator trades the nearest (closest to expiration) contract that is not yet past first notice date. Such contracts are usually the most liquid and actively traded. Futures contracts may be used in several ways. For example, producers of commodities use them to hedge risks. A grain producer may have 10,000 bushels of corn that will be ready on a given date, and he or she wants to lock in a specific sales price on that date. Locking in the price with a futures contract avoids the risk of vagaries in the corn market.
The strike price of a put is the same except that the buyer can force the seller of the put to purchase a specified number of futures contracts or shares at the option's strike price, regardless of the current market value of the underlying security. , futures contract, stock, or bond). Like futures, calls and puts have been standardized and are traded on regulated exchanges. Like stocks and futures, they are identified by ticker symbols. For stock options, the option ticker is usually constructed by appending two letters (see Table 1-2).