{"id":1022655,"date":"2023-08-01T20:47:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/?p=1022655"},"modified":"2023-08-01T20:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:56:13","slug":"derivatives-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/derivatives-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Derivatives In Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Derivatives In Nigeria<\/h4>\n<p>Derivatives are essentially contracts that derive their value from an agreed-upon underlying asset, index or commodity. Common underlying instruments include bonds, commodities, currencies, interest rates, market indices and stocks. \u200b<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1022657\" src=\"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/financial-derivatives-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/financial-derivatives-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/financial-derivatives.png 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Why Use Derivatives?<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Leverage provides a capital-efficient way to gain exposure to underlying assets. This creates greater volatility which amplifies gains and losses<\/li>\n<li>Derivatives allow\u00a0investors to take advantage of price movements in the underlying assets<\/li>\n<li>They are typically liquid and easily traded<\/li>\n<li>They serve as a tool\u00a0for Portfolio diversification<\/li>\n<li>The added benefit short-selling afford users the\u00a0opportunities to benefit from downward price movements<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1022658\" src=\"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/23_03_22_112617_Untitled_design-High-Quality_5-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/23_03_22_112617_Untitled_design-High-Quality_5-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/23_03_22_112617_Untitled_design-High-Quality_5-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/23_03_22_112617_Untitled_design-High-Quality_5-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/23_03_22_112617_Untitled_design-High-Quality_5.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Who is this for?<\/h4>\n<p>Derivatives are\u00a0suited to both professional and private investors who wish to hedge an open position\u00a0or gain exposure to assets and markets without necessarily\u00a0holding the underlying\u00a0assets. Derivatives may also be\u00a0traded by speculators with the sole purpose of making profits\u00a0on short-term price\u00a0movements.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1022656\" src=\"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FMDQ-Securities-Exchange-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FMDQ-Securities-Exchange-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FMDQ-Securities-Exchange.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derivatives In Nigeria Derivatives are essentially contracts that derive their value from an agreed-upon underlying asset, index or commodity. Common underlying instruments include bonds, commodities, currencies, interest rates, market indices and stocks. \u200b Why Use Derivatives? &nbsp; Leverage provides a capital-efficient way to gain exposure to underlying assets. This creates greater volatility which amplifies gains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fmdqgroup.com\/exchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}