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Futures
Chapter 3
Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets, 8th Ed, Ch3, Copyright John 1C. Hull 2013
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Spot
Price
Futures
Price
Time
t1
t2
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Basis Risk
Basis
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Define
F1 : Futures price at time hedge is set up
F2 : Futures price at time asset is purchased
S2 : Asset price at time of purchase
b2 : Basis at time of purchase
Cost of asset
S2
Gain on Futures
F2 F1
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Price of asset
S2
Gain on Futures
F1 F2
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Choice of Contract
Choose
where
S is the standard deviation of S, the change in the
spot price during the hedging period,
F is the standard deviation of F, the change in the
futures price during the hedging period
is the coefficient of correlation between S and F.
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QF
VA
VF
h *Q A
QF
h *V A
VF
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Example continued
The size of one heating oil contract is 42,000 gallons
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VF
where VA is the current value of the
portfolio, is its beta, and VF is the
current value of one futures (=futures
price times contract size)
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Example
Futures price of S&P 500 is 1,000
Size of portfolio is $5 million
Beta of portfolio is 1.5
One contract is on $250 times the index
What position in futures contracts on the
S&P 500 is necessary to hedge the
portfolio?
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Changing Beta
What
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Stock Picking
If
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