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Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management: Frank K. Reilly & Keith C. Brown
Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management: Frank K. Reilly & Keith C. Brown
to accompany
Chapter 22
Chapter 22
Forward and Futures Contracts
Questions to be answered:
• What are the differences in the way forward and
futures contracts are structured and traded?
• How are the margin accounts on a futures
contract adjusted for daily changes in market
conditions?
• How can an investor use forward and futures
contracts to hedge an existing risk exposure?
Chapter 22
Forward and Futures Contracts
• What is a hedge ratio and how should it be
calculated?
• What economic functions do the forward and
futures markets serve?
• How are forward and futures contracts valued
after origination?
• What is the relationship between futures contract
prices and the current and expected spot price for
the underlying commodity or security?
Chapter 22
Forward and Futures Contracts
• How can an investor use forward and futures
contracts to speculate on a particular view
about changing market conditions?
• How do agricultural futures contracts differ
from those based on financial instruments, such
as stock indexes, bonds, and currencies?
• How can forward and futures contracts be
designed to hedge interest rate risk?
Chapter 22
Forward and Futures Contracts
• How are implied forward rates and actual
forward rates related?
• What is stock arbitrage and how is it related to
program trading?
• How can forward and futures contracts be
designed to hedge foreign exchange rate risk?
• What is interest rate parity and how would you
construct a covered hedge interest arbitrage
transaction?
An Overview of
Forward and Futures Trading
• Forward contracts are negotiated directly between
two parties in the OTC markets.
– Individually designed to meet specific needs
– Subject to default risk
• Futures contracts are bought through brokers on
an exchange
– No direct interaction between the two parties
– Exchange clearinghouse oversees delivery and settles
daily gains and losses
– Customers post initial margin account
Hedging With Forwards and Futures
• Create a position that will offset the price risk of
another holding
– holding a short forward position against the long
position in the commodity is a short hedge
– a long hedge supplements a short commodity
holding with a long forward position
Hedging With Forwards and Futures
• Relationship between spot and forward price
movements
– basis is spot price minus the forward price for a
contract maturing at date T:
BtT = St - Ft,T
– forward price converges to the spot price as the
contract expires
– hedging exposure is correlation between future
changes in the spot and forward contract prices and
can be perfectly correlated with customized contracts
Hedging With Forwards and Futures
• Calculating the Optimal Hedge Ratio
– net profit from the position
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Forward and Futures Contracts:
Basic Valuation Concepts
• Forward and futures contracts are not
securities but, rather, trade agreements that
enable both buyers and sellers of an
underlying commodity or security to lock in
the eventual price of their transaction
Valuing Forwards and Futures
• Valuing forwards
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•Valuing futures
•contracts are marked to market daily
* = the possibility that forward and futures prices
for the same commodity at the same point in time
might be different
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The Relationship Between Spot and
Forward Prices
• If you buy a commodity now for cash and store
it until you deliver it, the price you want under a
forward contract would have to cover:
– the cost of buying it now
– the cost of storing it until the contract matures
– the cost of financing the initial purchase
• These are the cost of carry necessary to move
the asset to the future delivery date
F0,T S 0 SC 0,T S 0 PC 0,T i0,T D0,T
The Relationship Between Spot and
Forward Prices
• Contango - high storage costs and no
dividends
• Premium for owning the commodity
– convenience yield
– results from small supply at date 0
relative to what is expected at date T
(after the crop harvest)
• Backwardated market - future is less
than spot
Financial Forwards and Futures:
Applications and Strategies
• Originally, forward and futures markets were
organized largely around trading agricultural
commodities
• Recent developments in this area have involved the
use of financial securities as the asset underlying
the contract
• Interest rate forwards and futures were among the
first derivatives to specify a financial security as the
underlying asset
– forward rate agreements
– interest rate swaps
Financial Forwards and Futures:
Applications and Strategies
• Long-term interest rate futures
– Treasury bond and note contract mechanics
• CBT $100,000 face value
• T-bond >15 year maturity
• T-note 10 year - bond with 6.5 to 10 year maturity
• T-note 5 year - bond with 4.25 - 5.25 years
• Delivery any day during month of delivery
• Last trading day 7 days prior to the end of the month
• Quoted in 32nds
• Yield quoted is for reference
• Treasury bonds pay semiannual interest
• Conversion factors for differences in deliverable bonds
Financial Forwards and Futures:
Applications and Strategies
• A duration based approach to hedging
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