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between parties whose value derives from and depends on the value
of an underlying financial asset.
3. 5. PRICE DISCOVERY:
Price discovery means revealing information about future cash
market prices through the future markets. Derivative markets
provide a mechanism by which diverse and scattered opinions
of future are collected into one really discernible number which
provides which provide a consensus of knowledgeable thinking.
4. 6. PRICE STABILISATION:
Derivative market helps to keep a stabilizing influence on spot
prices by reducing the both term fluctuations. In other words,
derivatives reduces both peak and depths and leads to price
stabilization effect in the cash market underlying assets.
5. 7. EFFICIENCY IN TRADING:
Financial derivatives allow for free trading of risk components
and that leads in improving market efficiency. Traders can use
a position in one or more financial derivatives as a substitute or
position in the underlying instruments. In many instances,
traders find financial derivatives to be more attractive than
the underlying security.