Upper bound on forward settlement price발음듣기
Upper bound on forward settlement price
And let me just tell you right from the get-go there's usually not that many way to make risk-free profit in the world, so this is very theoretical.발음듣기
If you were to buy or sell gold today and actually exchange hands, then you would pay or sell the gold for a thousand dollars per ounce.발음듣기
Or if you want to sell gold one year from now, you could agree right now to sell for $1200 by entering into a forward or futures contract.발음듣기
And the carrying cost means if I had an ounce of gold, and I wanted to hold it responsibly, I wanted to store it, maybe someplace in a safe at a bank, and I wanted to insure it in case it got stolen or in case someone lost it, that would cost me $50 per ounce per year.발음듣기
Well, you could, and we're assuming you start with nothing, so you could literally just borrow $1000.발음듣기
$50 per ounce. So, $50 carrying cost. And so, when we end up a year from now, you can sell, you will sell the gold for $1200.발음듣기
One year from now. And you know you can do that, because you entered into the forward agreement.발음듣기
And this price would go up because everyone would want to buy on spot... and this price would go down because everyone would want to sell on the futures market.발음듣기
So the appropriate price is this one should not... this price, based on these numbers right here, should not be any higher than $1150.발음듣기
So the correct market price here, if we didn't want risk-free profit, or essentially what the arbitragers would make happen by kind of taking advantage of this... it would eventually go to $1150.발음듣기
So it's essentially the spot price, plus the cost to borrow money at that spot price, plus the carrying cost.발음듣기
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