1. Both futures and options contracts are standardized agreements that are traded on an exchange such as ASX (The Australian Securities Exchange, ASX LIMITED, 2014) or CME Group (CME Group Inc. 2014). Options also are traded the over-the-counter market. Moreover, they both have daily settlement and a margin account with a broker is required to trade options or futures. Investors use these financial instruments to hedge their risk or to speculate. The underlying assets for both futures and options
Derivatives Assignment ‘Option, Futures and Forwards’ October 2015 Instructor: Jacques Bernard Done by: Zainab Yehia Bakr i. Explain the difference between selling a call option and buying a put option. Selling a call option is when you give the other party the right to buy an underlying asset at an agreed upon price ‘strike price’ on an agreed upon date. When you write a call option, you have the obligation to sell the underlying asset to the counterparty, and the counterparty
how the futures market operates and what factors influence it. My final results of my trading plan concluded a $___ gain trading May CLK crude oil futures contracts on cmegroup.com. I decided to only trade one contract in the beginning of my trading to focus on how I could advance in my futures trading techniques. Once I started to gain the necessary knowledge on how to profit consistently in the market, is when I started trading more than one contract and traded 3. I traded 3 contracts because in
should sell the corn in December as I can sell them at the current higher price and make a profit. It is good to see commodities when the rate is high and better to buy them when the price goes low to maximize profit. If I have any customers in the contract that I supply corn for next year, I should wait until the massive crop production next year, buy the goods at a lower price and provide them. For example, I hold 1000 lbs. of corn which I bought at $ 2 per pounds. So, my costs of goods sold = 1000*
percent of the total fund. You are limiting your total losses to 10 percent of each trade with this system. If you continued along with these position sizes (100 per- cent of the account with ten trades total), you would have to lose over 100 trades in a row to zero out your account (this does not include the trading costs). The use of stop losses is a form of defensive risk management. An offensive- orientated risk-management technique is to program your trading platform to automatically sell
Internal Analysis Competitive Strategy Flip Factory competes in the industry by employing a focused differentiation competitive strategy. In the gymnastics club industry, two tiers exist: competitive and recreational. Travis felt that there was an under-served niche in the industry for high-level gymnastics programs aimed at recreational participants. This niche includes former competitive athletes, high preforming athletes who do not have the time to train competitively and beginners who wish to
The loss aversion principle was first validated by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (1979) to explain for the outcome that experimental subjects required a unique over expected value to receive a wager proposing an even casual of a gain or loss (“the risky bet premium”). An individual is loss averse if she or he distastes symmetric 50-50 bets and, furthermore, the aversiveness to such bets increases with the absolute size of the stakes. Loss-Aversion theory states that people's observations of
This article aims at analyzing the fundamental IMC planning background of Hillside Brewery, discussing the key IMC decisions of Hillside Brewery based on marketing communication theories, as well as critically evaluating whether this brand applied consistent brand messaging across both traditional and non-traditional marketing channels and using different marketing communications tools to reinforce each other to its target audience. At last, recommendations for the further development of IMC for
Annoying Children and Bad Kidnappers, a love story Are you ever just in the mood to kidnap a kid for lots of money? That’s exactly what “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry is about. Two grown men decide to kidnap a little boy, but by the end of the story they end up paying to get rid of him. When you read this story you might find the characters confusing and slightly annoying, therefore you probably should save yourself some time and just not read this story. Along with the dilactate that makes
Have you ever played Monopoly? Well, this game King Khufu’s Pyramid is based on Monopoly. For example, instead of houses in Monopoly, you have pyramid pieces. Most of the game is the same concept as Monopoly, for instance, there is money,game pieces,game cards,and a dice. All the pieces you need to play the game is in the purple Ziploc bag. Also, make sure there is one rule book,one game board,40 question cards,one dice,16 pyramid pieces,money($25 and$100),and 4 game pieces(Baset, Horus,Ushebi,and
made. For example, many people use phones as a way to make plans with other people, or to explore future possibilities. While this is positive, it shouldn 't be allowed to get in the way of what is going on right now. Technology should by all meany be used to make plans, but one the plans are set in motion the phone should be set down so that you can actually enjoy what you 're doing. Living in the future may seem appealing, with its infinite options, but n reality it can 't hold a candle to existing
preparing the youth in school for white collar jobs in the future. Doing this creates a wider range of candidates for skilled jobs, helping a company to excel. Month after month, over 5,000 high paying Idaho jobs remain unfilled, numerous Idaho companies have suspended growth and major construction projects are literally on hold, all for one reason. They can’t find enough talent (Sayer). We are just learning to become better prepared for the future. It would make sense to shape the progression of learning
many theories and ideologies concerning the future. But it seems that nothing about the future is set; change may be the only constant. This may seem disconcerting when a majority of good police work and crime fighting, centers around trying to predict the future. That is not to say that law enforcement is helpless. Indeed, ;aw enforcement officials have many tools at their disposal. One of the most powerful, may not necessarily predict the future, but it may provide am educated guess. The
planning my future in my head. I envisioned all these dreams as a child, as a teenager, and as a young adult. Not once have I taken control of my destiny until now. For the first time in my life, I know what I want and exactly how to achieve my goals. My first year in college, I did not know what I was going to do once it was time to transfer so instead of facing that reality I decided to join the military. In a matter of one month after I decided to join I signed a four-year contract in the
Prologue In the Far Far Future of 2250 humanity was safe, the Goauld extinct, Ori dead and their followers back in their own galaxy, Replicators wiped out and the Wraith defeated. The rest of humanity’s enemies were long gone and man was in the golden age of space exploration and colonies. Humanity was now spread throughout the Milky Way Galaxy, the Pegasus Galaxy and the Ida Galaxy with new planets being colonised on a nearly daily basis, The Empire of Man was truly living in a blessed time.
expenditures. The manufacturing side also must be considered with regard to increased output requirements to keep pace with the retail expansion. We cannot ignore the fact that for this type of business, the company has to abide by the vendors’ terms and contract agreements. They have to be very careful while advertising and marketing their products which may restrict their promotional activities. Despite the fact that TJX provides a very friendly work environment, it is also true that it has oversupply of
In the midst of the 20th century and the burgeoning space race, a new subgenre of science fiction began to blossom out of the seeds of pulp fiction, a genre insultingly deemed space opera (after the ever popular soap opera, which shares its taste for melodrama). Corny, ham-fisted, and oftentimes cliche, the beginnings of the genre were anything but pretty, yet there’s something undeniably entertaining about it. I recently rewatched Flash Gordon (the one with Queen in it) and it was an experience
practice in private settings with very little oversight. A vital ethical element in counseling is confidentiality. Confidentiality builds a private and safe environment of trust which is crucial for counseling to be fruitful. As a counselor in my future practice I believe confidentiality is key to a successful therapeutic relationship, which leads to a successful course of treatment. In addition to its importance in building trust, as once a healthy alliance is established the therapeutic relationship
“How The Future Will Judge Us.” Is an article written by Kwame Anthony Appiah, published by the McGraw Hill Education in 2015. Appiah wrote this article for a book called Read, Write, Reason (Selyer 525). This article was written to bring attention to some of the horrendous practices that society has, and is helpful in brining insight to practices in society that people avoid, or pay little attention to. In “How the Future Will Judge Us” Appiah starts out by giving demonstrations of events that
What would the world look like in 10 years? 50 years? 100 years? You might be thinking of a ton of new technologies that will exist in the future. However, for that future to exist some needs to make them in the first place. Enter Elon Musk. With the companies he’s started and the work he’s done, the future may come much quick than we expect. Before a discussion about his way of thinking and what he is currently working on, let’s first explore how he got to where he is today. He was born in South