Analyzing Futures Contracts: Gains, Losses, and Margin Calls
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Analyzing Futures Contracts: Gains, Losses, and Margin Calls
Directions
Use your textbook to answer the following questions from Chapter
Exercise 17, 19, 23, and 27.
Questions
$4.52/oz. and closes out the position at a price of $4.46/oz. If one silver futures contract
is for 5,000 ounces, what are the investor’s gains or losses?
of $276.50 per oz. The size of one futures contract is 100 oz. The initial margin per
contract is $1,500, and the maintenance margin is $1,100.
$3,375 and the maintenance margin is $2,500. One contract is for 1,000 barrels of oil.
By how much do oil prices have to change before you receive a margin call?
NYMEX at a futures price of $43 per barrel. At maturity of the contract, the company
rolls half of its position forward into new one-month futures and closes the remaining
half. At this point, the spot price of oil is $44 per barrel, and the new one-month futures
price is $43.50 per barrel. At maturity of this second contract, the company closes out
its remaining position. Assume the spot price at this point is $46 per barrel. Ignoring
interest, what are the company’s gains or losses from its futures positions?
Analyzing Futures Contracts: Gains, Losses, and Margin Calls
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