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For example, if silver is trading at $25/ounce, a standard futures contract would cost $125,000 ($25*5,000 troy ounces), but you might only need an initial margin deposit of $10,000 to $14,000.

Spot trading involves buying or selling an asset at its current market price for immediate delivery. Futures trading uses contracts to set a price and delivery date for a future transaction ...

The size of a single contract is just $1000, compared with 12.5 million Japanese yen ($128,866) or 100,000 Australian dollars ($156,250), for a single contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

CME Group Inc. is launching a smaller Bitcoin futures contract in a bid to appeal to retail investors who may be priced out of the exchange’s existing crypto offerings.