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You are currently long in a futures contract.You then instruct a broker to enter the short side of a futures contract to close your position.This is called __________.

A) a cross hedge
B) a reversing trade
C) a speculation
D) marking to market

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Question 42

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The advantage that standardization of futures contracts brings is that _____ is improved because ____________________.

A) liquidity; all traders must trade a small set of identical contracts
B) credit risk; all traders understand the risk of the contracts
C) pricing; convergence is more likely to take place with fewer contracts
D) trading cost; trading volume is reduced

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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You own a $15 million bond portfolio with a modified duration of 11 years and you want to limit your risk but institutional constraints prohibit trading the bond portfolio.T-bond futures are available with a modified duration of the deliverable instrument of 8 years.The futures are priced at $105,000.The proper hedge ratio to use is ______.

Which one of the following is a true statement?

A one year gold futures contract is selling for $641. Spot gold prices are $600 and the one year risk free rate is 6%. -The arbitrage profit implied by these prices is _____________.

The open interest on silver futures at a particular time is the number of __________.

The ________ and the _______ have the lowest correlations with the large-cap indexes.

Which one of the following exploits differences between actual future prices and their theoretically correct parity values?

An established value below which a trader's margin may not fall is called the ________.

If the S&P 500 index futures contract is overpriced relative to the spot S&P 500 index,you should __________.

Probably the most active forward market is for _____________.

You take a long position in a futures contract of one maturity and a short position in a contract of a different maturity,both on the same commodity.This is called __________.

In the context of a futures contract,the basis is defined as ______________.

Approximately __________ of futures contracts result in actual delivery.

Violation of the spot-futures parity relationship results in _______________.

Which one of the following refers to the daily settlement of obligations on future positions?

Futures contracts have many advantages over forward contracts except that _________.

An investor establishes a long position in a futures contract now (time 0) and holds the position until maturity (Time T) .The sum of all daily settlements will be __________.

A one year gold futures contract is selling for $641. Spot gold prices are $600 and the one year risk free rate is 6%. -A hypothetical futures contract on a non-dividend-paying stock with current spot price of $100 has a maturity of four years.If the T-bill rate is 7% what should the futures price be?

The time on Friday with simultaneous expirations of S&P index futures,S&P index options and options on some individual stocks is commonly called the _______.