• In finance, a forward contract, or simply a forward, is a non-standardized contract between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specified future...
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  • In finance, a contract for difference (CFD) is a legally binding agreement that creates, defines, and governs mutual rights and obligations between two...
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  • commodity or financial instrument. The predetermined price of the contract is known as the forward price or delivery price. The specified time in the future when...
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  • enters into a forward contract with an investor. Multinational corporations, banks, and other financial institutions enter into forward contracts to take advantage...
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  • The forward price (or sometimes forward rate) is the agreed upon price of an asset in a forward contract. Using the rational pricing assumption, for a...
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  • A variable prepaid forward contract is an investment strategy that allows a shareholder with a concentrated stock holding to generate liquidity for diversification...
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  • spot price (or spot rate). A spot contract is in contrast with a forward contract or futures contract where contract terms are agreed now but delivery...
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  • funds, insurance, forward contracts, swaps, options, gambles, many types of over-the-counter and derivative products, and futures contracts. Public futures...
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    futures contract, and a DFL contract when the futures contract becomes the front month future. This is equivalent to a Brent forward contract and a CFD...
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  • Forward (surname) Forward (association football) Forward (basketball), including: Point forward Power forward (basketball) Small forward Forward (ice hockey)...
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  • equal to the forward rate of exchange back in year 1. Any change in the forward rate, however, changes the value of the forward contract. In this example...
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  • The forward market is the informal over-the-counter financial market by which contracts for future delivery are entered into. It is mainly used for trading...
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  • products (such as swaps, futures, or forwards) obligate the contractual parties to the terms over the life of the contract. Option products (such as interest...
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    Exchange often involved the use of very sophisticated contracts, including short sales, forward contracts, and options. "Trading took place at the Amsterdam...
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  • Forward security could refer to: Forward contract, a financial instrument Forward secrecy a property of cryptographic protocols This disambiguation page...
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  • non-deliverable forward (NDF) is an outright forward or futures contract in which counterparties settle the difference between the contracted NDF price or...
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  • An executory contract is a contract that has not yet been fully performed or fully executed. It is a contract in which both sides still have important...
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    social thought, such as Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau put forward their opinions on social contract, which then caused the topic to become much more mainstream...
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  • was originally in forward contracts; the first contract (on corn) was written on March 13, 1851. In 1865 standardized futures contracts were introduced...
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  • requires minimal assumptions, of a forward contract. In the absence of traded forward contracts, the forward contract can be replaced (indeed, itself replicated)...
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  • The forward curve is a function graph in finance that defines the prices at which a contract for future delivery or payment can be concluded today. For...
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    the currency futures contracts are similar to forward contracts in terms of their obligation, but differ from forward contracts in the way they are traded...
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  • principal amount. The general swap can also be seen as a series of forward contracts through which two parties exchange financial instruments, resulting...
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  • your obligation for the forward contract by shorting another forward with the same delivery date to get the difference in forward prices, but discounted...
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  • A forward freight agreement (FFA) is a financial forward contract that allows ship owners, charterers and speculators to hedge against the volatility...
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    and forwards exchange in London, United Kingdom with the world's largest market[citation needed] in standardised forward contracts, futures contracts and...
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  • novel Between Planets helped popularize the phrase. "Pay it forward" is implemented in contract law of loans in the concept of third party beneficiaries...
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    During the rest of the year, florists, or tulip traders, signed forward contracts before a notary to buy tulips at the end of the season. Thus the Dutch...
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  • to holding the corresponding call option and selling an appropriate forward contract. This equivalence is called "put-call parity". Put options are most...
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    situation in which the futures price (or forward price) of a commodity is higher than the expected spot price of the contract at maturity. In a contango situation...
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