synthetic futures

synthetic futures definition - finance
A trading position created by combining two option positions so that the payoff is the nearly the same as what would be achieved by purchasing the outright futures. The options have the effect of creating what resembles a futures position.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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