Future Contracts Flashcards
Characteristics
Padronized
Daily adjustment (yield-100)
If the Interest Rate are neagative correlated to the Price of u/l, what should be preferiable: fwd or future?
Foward!
If the price of underlying assets goes down, you need to deposit margin!!
Payments on fwd rates and future rates
Fwd- exibit convexity (discounted to the beggining of the loan period)
Future - linear (no convexity)
About adjustments of future contracts:
What happens the end of the day with the VALUE and the PRICE of the contract:
Value = remain 0 each day (daily adjustment)
Price = floating during the period
About OTC margin of financial intermediaries
Imposes margin similar to those of standardized future.
If Interest Rates has 0 volatility or
Futures prices are uncorrelated with interest rate, what happens with
Fwd and Futures prices?
They are going to be the same