Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780077861759
Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford D Jordan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 25, Problem 2QP
Summary Introduction
To calculate: Profit or loss if silver prices turn out to be $16.61 per ounce at expiration and $16.43 per ounce at expiration.
Future Contracts:
In future contracts an agreement has been signed by the two parties for the purpose of buying and selling of particular underlying assets at the decided date with specified period of time. Buying an underlying asset is called the long position while selling is called the short position.
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You placed $120,000 in your future trading account have just bought your first HSI June 2023 futures contract today @ 19,652, at market close the HSI June 2023 future closed at 19,534. Currently the initial margin for HSI is $101,944, the maintenance margin is $81,555. HSI futures is $50 per index point.
What is you margin account balance as of market closed today? Please write out the detailed calculation steps
Suppose that you enter into a short futures contract to sell July silver for $17.20 per ounce. The size of the contract is 5,000 ounces. The initial margin is $4,000, and the maintenance margin is $3,000.What change in the futures price will lead to a margin call?What happens if you do not meet the margin call?
Table 2.7
Corn futures prices
on the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange,
January 3, 2019
Maturity Last
Mar-19
May-19
Jul-19
Sep-19
Dec-19
Mar-20
Change High
3.8025
0.7500 3.8075 3.7975
3.8800
0.5000 3.8800
3.8750
3.9500
0.2500 3.9525
3.9450
3.9700
0.0000 3.9700
3.9650
4.0075 -0.5000 4.0100
4.0025
4.0975 0.0000 4.1000 4.0950
Low
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Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
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