History

Established in 1972, Futures magazine is the oldest and largest circulation publication serving the derivatives industry. The original concept began with Leon Rose and Mort Baratz, who were the creators of Managed Account Reports. Merrill Oster purchased the newsletter of Futures (formerly “Commodities”) and turned it into a magazine that covered mainly the commodity markets. Oster was a farmer, journalist and trader, so combined those talents to grow a business that was vertically integrated into the entire futures industry. In 1983, with the growth of financial futures contracts, the magazine’s name was changed to Futures. Highline Media purchased Futures Magazine Group in October 2005.

Since its start the magazine has grown to cover not only the futures markets, but options, forex and stock markets as well. It is distributed world wide and covers not only all markets, but all geographical centers, with correspondents both in Europe and Asia.

Readers

The readers of Futures trade and/or manage the trading of futures, options, stock, forex and derivatives. They include high net- worth individuals, professional traders and corporate and institutional money managers and hedgers who are active in the global stock and derivatives markets. Although most readers are U.S. based, Futures is distributed globally with 65,000 readers world wide, and hundreds of thousands of readers of its web site, futuresmag.com

Futures helps readers understand the factors that affect futures prices, provides them with perspective on trends affecting the global marketplace and gives them information on how to maximize trading profits while minimizing risk. Feature articles cover fundamental and technical trading strategies, updates on technical analysis techniques, technology updates and market news that affects traders worldwide. Each issue also includes in-depth global market news, analysis of market prices, managed money and fund reviews, people news, industry trends, new products, software and book reviews and more.

As part of Futures Magazine Group, Futures is the industry’s premiere publication that is one tool in a franchise devoted to educating and training serious traders on daily, weekly and long-term market analysis and strategies.