It can because more money is spent in the stock analyst world, so their research contains future prediction of the underlying prices of the related commodity or futures.
Speculators on futures price fluctuations who do not intend to make or take ultimate delivery must take care to zero their positions prior to the contract's expiry.
Until about 1710, only physical rice was traded but then a futures market emerged where "coupons", promising delivery of rice at a future time, began to be issued.
Around the world the field is variously referred to as futures studies, strategic foresight, futuristics, futures thinking, futuring, futurology, and futurism.
