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THE KABRA COMMITTEE REPORT June 1993, a committee on Forward Markets under chairmanship of Prof. K.N.Kabra. Objective : To assess the working of the commodity exchanges To review the role that forward trading has played in the Indian commodity markets during the last 10 years. To...

 Interest rate futures: Interest rate futures are one of the most successful financial innovations in recent years. The underlying asset is a debt instrument such as a treasury bill, a bond, and a time deposit in a bank and so on. For e.g. the International Monetary Market (a part of...

Hedging with currency futures: Hedging contractual foreign currency flows with currency futures is in many respects similar to hedging with forward contracts. A receivable is hedged by selling futures while a payable is hedged by buying futures. A futures hedge differs from a forward...

Strike Price: The predetermined price upon which the buyer and the seller of an option have agreed is the strike price, also called the ‘exercise price’ or the striking price. Each option on an underlying instrument shall have multiple strike prices. Futures Futures are exchanged traded...

What is the role of a Warehouse in Futures Market? In India, vibrant spot markets, in various commodities, exists for 100s of years. In these markets, there are farmers, industrialists, warehouses, consumers, dealers and traders, who buy and sell commodities. There are warehouses, which...

Contract Expiry Contract Expiry for the Futures contract will be written as 20mmmYYYY mmm – used to denote the month, eg. DEC, JAN etc YYYY – used to denote the year eg. 2003, 2004 etc For the spot price, no expiry date will be displayed or required

Benefits of futures trading Price discovery for commodity players A farmer can plan his crop by looking at prices prevailing in the futures market Hedging against price risk A manufacturing firm can reduce most of its volatility in earnings An exporter can commit to a price to his...

Commodity Futures Contract A commodity futures contract is a tradable standardized contract, The futures contract is for a specified variety of a commodity, known as the "basis", The quality parameters of the "basis" are all predetermined by the rules and regulations of the commodity...

Commodities Futures Presently futures trading is permitted in all the commodities. Trading is taking place in about 50 commodities in 22 exchanges The govt.has recently allowed four national level multi-commodity exchanges to trade in all permitted commodities. The “Forward Markets...

What are futures and options? A contract to make or take delivery of a product in the future, at a price set in the present In formalized futures and options trading on exchanges, standardized agreements specify price, quantity, and month of delivery Started in agriculture, but have expanded to...

WHAT ARE FEATURES AND DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FORWARDS AND FUTURES FUTURES CONTRACTS: A “Futures” Contract is an exchange traded contract to buy or sell at a predetermined quantity of an asset on a predetermined future date at a predetermined price. FEATURES : Contract between two parties...

WHAT ARE INDEX FUTURES CONTRACTS AND INDEX OPTION CONTRACTS Index Future Contracts are the Futures Contracts which are based on an Index the underlying asset is the index. For example, futures contract on NIFTY Index and BSE-30 Index. These contracts derive their value from the value of...

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Options based upon futures markets are priced according to their multiplier (or contract value), and options based upon stocks are priced in groups of 100 shares. For example, the ZI (Silver 5000 troy ounce) options market has a multiplier of 5000, so its premiums need to be multiplied by 5000...

Interest rate futures (IRFs) — derivatives that help hedge against interest rate risks — will finally be available from August 31 to all investors. The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has announced the launch of IRFs based on the 10-year government security and has waived transaction charges until...

Have you heard of futures trading? From day trading to positions trading, many people trade in the futures markets. There are also futures options where traders trade an option contract which is directly related to the underlying futures market. What exactly are they trading? Future commodity...

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This chapter discusses exchange-traded currency futures contracts, options contracts, and options on currency futures.