Editing Market liquidity (section)

==Futures==
In the [[futures markets]], there is no assurance that a liquid market may exist for offsetting a commodity contract at all times. Some future contracts and specific delivery months tend to have increasingly more trading activity and have higher liquidity than others.  The most useful indicators of liquidity for these contracts are the trading volume and [[open interest]].

There is also [[Dark pool|dark liquidity]], referring to transactions that occur off-exchange and are therefore not visible to investors until after the transaction is complete. It does not contribute to public [[price discovery]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/a16e4388-08ca-11dc-b11e-000b5df10621.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/a16e4388-08ca-11dc-b11e-000b5df10621.html |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription|title=Mifid ushers in a new era of trading|work=Financial Times|access-date=27 May 2015}}</ref>