If the initial speculative margin of a futures contract is $2,000, the maintenance margin is $1,800 and your trading account balance has increased to $2,300, how much must you deposit to comply with your margin requirement?
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If the initial speculative margin of a futures contract is $2,000, the maintenance margin is $1,800 and your trading account balance has increased to $2,300, how much must you deposit to comply with your margin requirement?
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- Consider a hypothetical futures contract where the current price is $ 212. The initial margin requirement is $ 10 and the maintenance margin requirement is $ 8. You enter into long 20 contracts and meet all margin requirements, but do not withdraw any excess margin. B. Complete the table below and explain all deposited funds. Suppose the contract was purchased at the settlement price of that day, so there is no gain or loss at current market prices on the day of purchase. C. What is your total profit or loss by the end of Day 6?Yesterday, you entered into a futures contract to buy €62,500 at $1.50 per €. Your initial performance bond is $1,500 and your maintenance level is $500. At what settle price will you get a demand for additional funds to be posted? ANSWER D IS CORRECT BUT WHAT IS THE PROCEDURE BUT HOW DO I GET THERE? a) $1.5160 per €. b)$1.208 per €. c)$1.1920 per €. d)$1.4840 per €. CorrectA trader takes a view that March KLSE CI futures which are currently trading at 1188.60 are about to enter a downtrend. Should the trader go long or short futures. Assuming the trader maintains their original position until expiry and the cash settlement price is 1185.40, what will be the profit or loss? The contract size is RM50 per contract.
- a. A futures contract on a non-dividend-paying stock index with current value $130 has a maturity of one year. If the T-bill rate is 6%, what should the futures price be? b. What should the futures price be if the maturity of the contract is 2 years? c. What if the interest rate is 9% and the maturity of the contract is 2 years? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required A Required B Required C A futures contract on a non-dividend-paying stock index with current value $130 has a maturity of one year. If the T-bill rate is 6%, what should the futures price be? Note: Round your answer to 2 decimal places. Futures priceA futures contract will mature in one time step. The current return over one time-step is R = 1.01 and the underlying asset of the future contract is currently worth $27 and has up factor u = 1.1 and down factor d = 0.9. The margin account for the short side of this futures contract currently holds $16. How much will the margin account hold when the futures contract matures if the underlying asset increases in value?Futures Contracts | WSJ.com/commodities Metal & Petroleum Futures Contract Open High hi lo low Copper-High (CMX)-25,000 lbs.; $ per lb. Contract Open Open High hi lo low Settle Chg interest Open Coffee (ICE-US)-37,500 lbs.; cents per lb. Settle Chg interest Dec 194.00 205.55 192.95 204.05 10.05 129,6% March 22 196.95 208.35 195.80 206.90 10.10 70,796 Sugar-World (ICE-US)-112,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Oct 4.1500 4.2030 4.1500 Dec 4.1065 4.2030 4.0585 4.1885 40.1935 0.1035 0.0995 2,734 109,717 March 20.31 20.35 20.02 20.06 -.28 420,744 May 19.72 19.75 19.48 19.53 .23 156,809 Oct Gold (CMX)-100 troy oz.; $ per troy oz. 1754.30 1762.60 1748.50 Sugar-Domestic (ICE-US)-112,000 lbs.; cents per lb. 1757.00 1.70 Nov 1755.90 1764.30 1750.00 1757.70 1.40 4,163 1,093 Nov 37.00 37.01 37.00 37.00 -.05 1,265 March'22 36.00 36.01 36.00 36.00 -.10 2,819 Dec 1757.20 1765.20 1749.90 1758.40 1.40 407,321 Feb 22 1759.10 1766.40 1751.60 1760.10 1.60 46,135 Cotton (ICE-US)-50,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Oct Oct…
- Suppose we enter into a 76-day T-bill futures contract quoted at 0.021. The notional amount is $1,000. What is the actual price?Yesterday, you entered into a futures contract to sell €75,000 at $1.79 per €. Your initial performance bond is $1,500 and your maintenance level is $500. At what settle price will you get a demand for additional funds to be posted? $1.6676 per €. $1.1840 per €. $1.2084 per €. $1.7767 per €.1)Demonstrate how a Margin Account operates for both the Long and the Short futures position using the following information (you do not need to adjust the values given for contract size or number of contracts): The initial margin is R30. The initial Futures price is R100. On Day 1 the price drops to R90. On Day 2 the price rises to R95. Fill in the correct monetary values for the margin account values (a) through to (f) in your answer booklet. Take care to show the signs (negative and positive) of your cash flows. LONG SHORT DAY 0 (a) (b) DAY 1 (c) (d) DAY 2 (e) (f)
- Suppose you work as a broker in an investment company, and there is an expectation that the market interest rate will be 0.031. based on this expectation you are required to calculate the market price for the following CD; Issue date: 1 January 2021 Maturity date:10 May 2021. The face value OMR 10000. Interest on CD: 5 percent.An investor has agreed to LEND $10 million for 3-months in the future at a rate of (SOFR + 1%). What position should the investor take in the SOFR Futures contract to hedge against interest-rate changes? Answer in terms of LONG or SHORT position and provide a brief rationale in the response box belowThis morning (Day 0) you take a short position in a pound futures contract that matures in 3 days (Day 3). The future price is $1.9750 today. The contract size is £62,500 and its initial performance bond and maintenance bond are $2,430 and $1,830, respectively. a. (b) Assuming that the daily settlement prices are indicated below, how would the daily change in settlement future prices affect your account? Show the daily gain/loss and account balance. Day 0 1 2 3 Settlement 1.9750 1.9700 1.9815 1.9907 Total Gain/Loss Account Balance b. During this period, did you receive a margin call? If you did, on what day? c. At the end of Day 3, how much in total did you make/lose on this futures contract?