High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NASDAQ futures are investment instruments which allow an investor to hedge with or speculate on the future value of various components of the NASDAQ market index. Several futures instruments are derived from the NASDAQ Composite Index: the E-mini NASDAQ Composite futures, the E-mini NASDAQ Biology futures, the NASDAQ-100 futures, and the e-mini NASDAQ-100 futures. The NASDAQ is the largest electronically traded stock exchange in the world. The NASDAQ Composite is a composite index of all securities traded on the NASDAQ exchange which has been continuously calculated since 1971. Futures contracts oblige the parties to buy and sell the derivative at a predetermined price at a predetermined time.