Equity futures are constructed around, on settlement date, delivery of the underlying shares to long contract holders from short contract holders. They're calle

Equity futures are constructed around, on settlement date, delivery of the underlying shares to long contract holders from short contract holders. They're called SSFs for short. [1] There are cash-settled futures too, but they're usually for things that don't sit well in a brokerage account like "a NASDAQ" or crypto, for instance. [1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/optioninvestor/06/singlestockfutures.asp https://www.investopedia.com/articles/optioninvestor/06/sing...