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t with each other bob because he is buying the underlying is said to have entered a long forward contract conversely alice will have the short forward contract the agreed price will typically be greater than the price today the spot price alice knows that she could sell immediately for 100 000 and place the proceeds in a bank so she wants to be compensated for the delayed sale suppose that the risk free rate of return r the bank rate for one year is 4 then the money in the bank would grow to 104 000 risk free so alice would want at least 104 000 one year from now for the contract to be worthwhile for her thus covering the opportunity cost suppose that they both agree on a sale price in one year s time of 104 000 at the end of one year suppose that the current market valuation of alice s house is 110 000 then because alice is obliged to sell to bob for only 104 000 bob will make a profit of 6 000 because he can buy from alice for 104 000 and immediately sell to the market for 110 000 alice has lost 6 000 compared to if she had never made the forward contract the similar situation works among currency forwards in which one party opens a forward contract to buy or sell a currency e g a contract to buy canadian dollars to expire settle at a future date as they do not wish to be exposed to exchange rate currency risk over a period of time as the exchange rate between u s dollars and canadian dollars fluctuates between the trade date and the earlier of the date at which the contract is closed or the expiration date one party gains and the counterparty loses as one currency strengthens against the other sometimes the buy forward is opened because the investor will actually need canadian dollars at a future date such as to pay a debt owed that is denominated in canadian dollars other times the party opening a forward does so not because they need canadian dollars nor because they are hedging currency risk but because they are speculating on the currency expecting the exchange rate to move favorably to generate a gain on closing the contract in a currency forward the notional amounts of currencies are specified ex a contract to buy 100 million canadian dollars equivalent to say us 75 2 million at the current rate these two amounts are called the notional amount s while the notional amount or reference amount may be a large number the cost or margin requirement to command or open such a contract is considerably less than that amount which refers to the leverage created which is typical in derivative contracts spot forward parity edit main article forward price see also cost of carry and convenience yield for liquid assets tradeables spot forward parity provides the link between the spot market and the forward market it describes the relationship between the spot and forward price of the underlying asset in a forward contract while the overall effect can be described as the cost of carry this effect can be broken down into different components specifically whether the asset pays income and if so whether this is on a discrete or continuous basis incurs storage costs is regarded as an investment asset i e an asset held primarily for investment purposes e g gold financial securities or a consumption asset i e an asset held primarily for consumption e g oil iron ore etc investment assets edit for an asset that provides no income the relationship between the current forward f 0 displaystyle f_ 0 and spot s 0 displaystyle s_ 0 prices is f 0 s 0 e r t displaystyle f_ 0 s_ 0 e rt where r displaystyle r is the continuously compounded risk free rate of return and t is the time to maturity the intuition behind this result is that given you want to own the asset at time t there should be no difference in a perfect capital market between buying the asset today and holding it and buying the forward contract and taking delivery thus both approaches must cost the same in present value terms for an arbitrage proof of why this is the case see rational pricing below for an asset that pays known income the relationship becomes discrete f 0 s 0 i e r t displaystyle f_ 0 s_ 0 i e rt continuous f 0 s 0 e r q t displaystyle f_ 0 s_ 0 e r q t where i displaystyle i the present value of the discrete income at time t 0 t displaystyle t_ 0 t and q p a displaystyle q p a is the continuously compounded dividend yield over the life of the contract the intuition is that when an asset pays income there is a benefit to holding the asset rather than the forward because you get to receive this income hence the income i displaystyle i or q displaystyle q must be subtracted to reflect this benefit an example of an asset which pays discrete income might be a stock and an example of an asset which pays a continuous yield might be a foreign currency or a stock index for investment assets which are commodities such as gold and silver storage costs must also be considered storage costs can be treated as negative income and like income can be discrete or continuous hence with storage costs the relationship becomes discrete f 0 s 0 u e r t displaystyle f_ 0 s_ 0 u e rt continuous f 0 s 0 e r u t displaystyle f_ 0 s_ 0 e r u t where u displaystyle u the present value of the discrete storage cost at time t 0 t displaystyle t_ 0 t and u p a displaystyle u p a is the continuously compounded storage cost where it is proportional to the price of the commodity and is hence a negative yield the intuition here is that because storage costs make the final price higher we have to add them to the spot price consumption assets edit consumption assets are typically raw material commodities which are used as a source of energy or in a production process for example crude oil or iron ore users of these consumption commodities may feel that there is a benefit from physically holding the asset in inventory as opposed to holding a forward on the asset these benefits include the ability to profit from hedge against temporary shortages and the ability to keep a production process running 1 and are referred to as the convenience yield thus for consumption assets the spot forward relationship is discrete storage costs f 0 s 0 u e r y t displaystyle f_ 0 s_ 0 u e r y t continuous storage costs f 0 s 0 e r u y t displaystyle f_ 0 s_ 0 e r u y t where y p a displaystyle y p a is the convenience yield over the life of the contract since the convenience yield provides a benefit to the holder of the asset but not the holder of the forward it can be modelled as a type of dividend yield however the convenience yield is a non cash item but rather reflects the market s expectations concerning future availability of the commodity if users have low inventories of the commodity this implies a greater chance of shortage which means a higher convenience yield the opposite is true when high inventories exist 1 cost of carry edit the relationship between the spot and forward price of an asset reflects the net cost of holding or carrying that asset relative to holding the forward thus all of the costs and benefits above can be summarised as the cost of carry c displaystyle c hence discrete f 0 s 0 u i e r y t displaystyle f_ 0 s_ 0 u i e r y t continuous f 0 s 0 e c t where c r q u y displaystyle f_ 0 s_ 0 e ct text where c r q u y relationship between the forward price and the expected future spot price edit main articles normal backwardation and contango the market s opinion about what the spot price of an asset will be in the future is the expected future spot price 1 hence a key question is whether or not the current forward price actually predicts the respective spot price in the future there are a number of different hypotheses which try to explain the relationship between the current forward price f 0 displaystyle f_ 0 and the expected future spot price e s t displaystyle e s_ t the economists john maynard keynes and john hicks argued that in general the natural hedgers of a commodity are those who wish to sell the commodity at a future point in time 4 5 thus hedgers will collectively hold a net short position in the forward market the other side of these contracts are held by speculators who must therefore hold a net long position hedgers are interested in reducing risk and thus will accept losing money on their forward contracts speculators on the other hand are interested in making a profit and will hence only enter the contracts if they expect to make money thus if speculators are holding a net long position it must be the case that the expected future spot price is greater than the forward price in other words the expected payoff to the speculator at maturity is e s t k e s t k displaystyle e s_ t k e s_ t k where k displaystyle k is the delivery price at maturity thus if the speculators expect to profit e s t k 0 displaystyle e s_ t k 0 e s t k displaystyle e s_ t k e s t f 0 displaystyle e s_ t f_ 0 as k f 0 displaystyle k f_ 0 when they enter the contract this market situation where e s t f 0 displaystyle e s_ t f_ 0 is referred to as normal backwardation forward futures prices converge with the spot price at maturity as can be seen from the previous relationships by letting t go to 0 see also basis then normal backwardation implies that futures prices for a certain maturity are increasing over time the opposite situation where e s t f 0 displaystyle e s_ t f_ 0 is referred to as contango likewise contango implies that futures prices for a certain maturity are falling over time 6 futures versus forwards edit forward contracts are very similar to futures contracts except they are not exchange traded or defined on standardized assets 7 forwards also typically have no interim partial settlements or true ups in margin requirements like futures that is the parties do not exchange additional property securing the party at gain and the entire unrealized gain or loss builds up while the contract is open therefore forward contracts have a significant counterparty risk which is also the reason why they are not readily available to retail investors 8 however being traded over the counter otc forward contracts specification can be customized and may include mark to market and daily margin calls having no upfront cashflows is one of the advantages of a forward contract compared to its futures counterpart especially when the forward contract is denominated in a foreign currency not having to post or receive daily settlements simplifies cashflow management 9 compared to the futures markets it is very difficult to close out one s position that is to rescind the forward contract for instance while being long in a forward contract entering short into another forward contract might cancel out delivery obligations but adds to credit risk exposure as there are now three parties involved closing out a contract almost always involves reaching out to the counterparty 10 compared to their futures counterparts forwards especially forward rate agreements need convexity adjustments that is a drift term that accounts for future rate changes in futures contracts this risk remains constant whereas a forward contract s risk changes when rates change 11 outright versus premium edit outright prices as opposed to premium points or forward points are quoted in absolute price units outrights are used in markets where there is no unitary spot price or rate for reference or where the spot price rate is not easily accessible 12 conversely in markets with easily accessible spot prices or basis rates in particular the foreign exchange market and ois market forwards are usually quoted using premium points or forward points that is using the spot price or basis rate as reference forwards are quoted as the difference in pips between the outright price and the spot price for fx or the difference in basis points between the forward rate and the basis rate for interest rate swaps and forward rate agreements 13 note the term outright is used in the futures markets in a similar way but is contrasted with futures spreads instead of premium points which is more than just a quoting convention and in particular involves the simultaneous transaction in two outright futures 14 rational pricing edit if s t displaystyle s_ t is the spot price of an asset at time t displaystyle t and r displaystyle r is the continuously compounded rate then the forward price at a future time t displaystyle t must satisfy f t t s t e r t t displaystyle f_ t t s_ t e r t t to prove this suppose not then we have two possible cases case 1 suppose that f t t s t e r t t displaystyle f_ t t s_ t e r t t then an investor can execute the following trades at time t displaystyle t go to the bank and get a loan with amount s t displaystyle s_ t at the continuously compounded rate r with this money from the bank buy one unit of asset for s t displaystyle s_ t enter into one short forward contract costing 0 a short forward contract means that the investor owes the counterparty the asset at time t displaystyle t the initial cost of the trades at the initial time sum to zero at time t displaystyle t the investor can reverse the trades that were executed at time t displaystyle t specifically and mirroring the trades 1 2 and 3 the investor repays the loan to the bank the inflow to the investor is s t e r t t displaystyle s_ t e r t t settles the short forward contract by selling the asset for f t t displaystyle f_ t t the cash inflow to the investor is now f t t displaystyle f_ t t because the buyer receives s t displaystyle s_ t from the investor the sum of the inflows in 1 and 2 equals f t t s t e r t t displaystyle f_ t t s_ t e r t t which by hypothesis is positive this is an arbitrage profit consequently and assuming that the non arbitrage condition holds we have a contradiction this is called a cash and carry arbitrage because you carry the asset until maturity case 2 suppose that f t t s t e r t t displaystyle f_ t t s_ t e r t t then an investor can do the reverse of what he has done above in case 1 this means selling one unit of the asset investing this money into a bank account and entering a long forward contract costing 0 note if you look at the convenience yield page you will see that if there are finite assets inventory the reverse cash and carry arbitrage is not always possible it would depend on the elasticity of demand for forward contracts and such like extensions to the forward pricing formula edit suppose that f v t x displaystyle fv_ t x is the time value of cash flows x at the contract expiration time t displaystyle t the forward price is then given by the formula f t t s t e r t t f v t all cash flows over the life of the contract displaystyle f_ t t s_ t e r t t fv_ t text all cash flows over the life of the contract the cash flows can be in the form of dividends from the asset or costs of maintaining the asset if these price relationships do not hold there is an arbitrage opportunity for a riskless profit similar to that discussed 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