income to commodities‚ and interest rates. Main features of financial derivatives. Financial derivatives have the following general characteristics‚ namely: Financial derivatives require very little initial investment compared to other types of contracts that have a similar response to changes in general market conditions. This phenomenon allows the investor to have higher profits and higher losses if the transaction is not developed as I thought. The value of the derivative changes in response
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Introduction Currency Futures Defined Currency Futures are standardised foreign exchange derivative contracts on a recognised stock exchange to buy or sell a standard quantity of one currency against another on a specified future date at a specified price. It allows clients to take a view on the movement of the exchange rate as well as hedge against currency risk. Clients can use Currency Futures as a trading‚ investing and hedging tool.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has permitted the recognized
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Hedging Strategies using Futures Introduction to Hedging Hedging refers to reducing risk. Let us take a simple example to understand hedging. A farmer expects to produce ‘X’ quantity of a commodity by the end of the cropping season say‚ October. He has to invest a certain amount of money today from his savings or maybe take a loan in expectation of returns he will get in October. But‚ he cannot accurately predict the prices he will get for his produce. A dip in prices could result in a loss. To deal
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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 liquidity‚ referring to transactions that occur off-exchange and are therefore not visible to investors until after
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Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets‚ 8e (Hull) Chapter 1 Introduction 1) A one-year forward contract is an agreement where A) One side has the right to buy an asset for a certain price in one year’s time B) One side has the obligation to buy an asset for a certain price in one year’s time C) One side has the obligation to buy an asset for a certain price at some time during the next year D) One side has the obligation to buy an asset for the market price in one year’s time Answer:
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To what extent does a currency forward contract need to play a formal role in multinational companies? A globalisation has risen over the last 20 years. Because of this factor‚ international markets have increased rapidly‚ therefore a large number of companies have been particularly interested in global operatings‚ such as‚ export trade‚ import trade‚ overseas sales (Moosa‚ 2003). A subsequent significant trouble looming large for
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Corporate Finance Problems and prospects of future contracts and options. Acknowledgement While doing this assingment we were lucky to have some assisstance from different personnels. At first we wan to mention about our honorable course instr-uctor Md. Omar Faruque. He helped us by providing a proper guideline on how to prepare this assingment. He also encouraged us to prepared the assingment in a timely and efficient manner. Now we want to mention some other persons contribution. Mr
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A STUDY ON DERIVATIVES MARKET“OPERATIONS AND APPLICATION OF HEDGING STRATEGIES FOR FUTUER” FROM INDIABULLS HYDERABAD A PROJECT REPORT SUBMITTED TO HYDERABAD IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF DEGREE IN MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SUBMITED PRASHANT MAHESHWARI ICBM-SBE (HYDERABAD) 2011-2013 DECLARATION I PRASHANT MAHESHWARI student of ICBM-SBE COLLEGE have completed the project on “DERIVATIVES MARKET OPERATIONS AND APPLICATION
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1 Hedging Strategies Using Futures Chapter 3 2 Long & Short Hedges • A long futures hedge is appropriate when you know you will purchase an asset in the future and want to lock in the price • A short futures hedge is appropriate when you know you will sell an asset in the future & want to lock in the price • A short hedge is also appropriate if you currently own the asset and want to be protected against price fluctuations 3 Arguments in Favor of Hedging • Companies should
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The usage of CPO futures Major group of users of CPO futures who are corporate users‚ institutional investors and individual investors used the CPO futures as a tool to hedge against a price increase or decline in palm oil or other close substitutes‚ such as soya or rapeseed oil in near future. CPO futures are also used as an alternative for holding physical palm oil until it is required in the physical market and they are traded in a directional market movement by buying low or selling high
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