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A Future Is a Standardized Contract to Buy or Sell

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A future is a standardized contract to buy or sell specified quantities of a commodity or ________ at a specified ________.


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Risk Premium

The additional return expected by an investor for taking on a higher level of risk.

Risky Asset

An asset that has a significant degree of uncertainty in its returns, often leading to variability in its investment outcomes.

Normal Distribution

A statistical function that represents the distribution of many types of data; it’s symmetric and describes data that clusters around a mean or average.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean, used to gauge volatility in financial markets.

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