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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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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Hedge (finance) (section Contract for difference)
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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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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Forward security could refer to: Forward contract, a financial instrument Forward secrecy a property of cryptographic protocols This disambiguation page...
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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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Derivative (finance) (redirect from Derivative contract)
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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Commodity market (redirect from Agricultural futures contracts)
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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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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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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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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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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Foreign exchange market (redirect from Forward exchange market)
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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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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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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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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Short (finance) (section Futures and options contracts)
short position can also be created through a futures contract, forward contract, or option contract, by which the short seller assumes an obligation or...
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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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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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commodity's forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity. The resulting futures or forward curve would typically...
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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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