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Providio's Futures Market Comentary for March 14, 2012Providio's Futures Market Currencies: 14Mar With the US economic situation apparently stabilizing and Europe’s much less certain, the chances of further US Fed easing are receding. As such, with higher implied US interest rates, the Euro and...

Metals: Gold: 28Feb Watch today’s break out above last Thursday’s high of 1789.5. If it can’t sustain the move, it may be entering a consolidation phase. Resistance should be offered at the psychological 1800 level, which aligns with the November high at 1804. We continue to track the...

Currencies: 15Feb The action for the last week or so has shifted the previously positive anti-Dollar trade the other direction. Unless an atypical move is due, the FX markets should stay in the current positive Dollar/negative other bias for several weeks. Volumes seem to be holding up strongly...

08Feb Attention remains focused on news flow from Europe as the world awaits some kind of indication about how Greece, and the rest of Europe will run between the raindrops in their sovereign debt crisis. While the specifics throughout the region may be a bit different, the overall dynamic is...

10Jan The possibility of Chinese intervening to spur economic growth and Fitch’s less negative outlook on Europe underpinned yesterday’s rally in most of the physical markets we track. However, they are lagging our Overbot Equity sector while the EuroFX is looking lonely, extending its stay on...

The market showed a remarkable performance on Tuesday led by broadbased buying, rose up 2.25%. Today NSE banchmark Nifty closed at 4,849.55 with 106.75 points upside. In international markets- European markets were trading 1-2% higher and the Dow Jones futures gained 88 points. Bandyopadhyay is...

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Broadly, if a funds manager holds an equity portfolio and expects the market to decline, he can sell the index futures at the current price for future delivery. if the market did decline, his equity portfolio value will come down, but his futures contract will show corresponding profit, since he...

STOCK INDEX FUTURES Stock index futures are drawn on stock market indices and each of these contracts are characterized by payment of cash on the delivery date of an amount equal to a multiplier times the difference between: a) The value of the index at the close of the last trading day of the...

in any other trade, the futures trade has to have a market to facilitate buying and selling. As the futures markets involve the operation and execution of financial deals of an enormous magnitude, their efficiency has to be of the highest quantity. Not only the size of the monetary operation...

The price of a commodity (here we are not restricting ourselves to equity stock as the underlying asset) is, among other things, a function of: • Demand and supply position of the commodity • Storability – depending on whether the commodity is perishable or not • Seasonality of the commodity...

FUTURES – THE CONCEPT A futures contract can be defined as a standardized agreement between the buyer and the seller in terms of which the seller is obligated to deliver a specified asset to the buyer on a specified date and the buyer is obligated to pay to the seller the then prevailing...

FUTURES CONTRACTS The problems associated with forward contracts lead to the emergence of Futures Contracts. A futures contract is a standardized contract between 2 parties where one of the parties commits to sell and the other to buy a stipulated quantity (and quality, where applicable) of a...

Investment has been basic to man ever since he discovered commerce. His action to invest has been motivated by his desire to multiply his acquisitions. As the requirements of man’s life grew in content and quality, the simple commercial transactions of purchase and sale of a commodity became...

Derivatives occupy a very significant place in the field of finance and are virtually driving the global financial markets of the day. Futures and options exchanges are an integral part of virtually all the advanced economies. Many more countries like India are in different stages of the process...

A Future contract is evolved out of a forward contract and posses many of the same characteristics. In essence, they are like liquid forward contracts. Unlike forward contracts however, futures contracts trade on organized exchanges called futures markets. The contract has standardized amount...

Do you sometimes think that the market index is going to fall? That you could make a profit by adopting a position on the index? How does one implement a trading strategy to benefit from a downward movement in the index? Today, you have two choices: 1. Sell selected liquid securities which move...

Do you sometimes think that the market index is going to rise? That you could make a profit by adopting a position on the index? How does one implement a trading strategy to benefit from an upward movement in the index? Today, you have two choices: 1. Buy selected liquid securities, which...

Have you ever been in a situation where you had funds which needed to get invested in equity? Or of expecting to obtain funds in the future which will get invested in equity. Some common occurrences of this include: • A closed-end fund which just finished its initial public offering has cash...

Have you ever experienced the feeling of owning an equity portfolio, and then, one day, becoming uncomfortable about the overall stock market? Sometimes, you may have a view that stock prices will fall in the near future. At other times, you may see that the market is in for a few days or...