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For futures contracts, instruments which compensate the trader for price changes, may be used to hedge price risk (i.e. lock in a price), and are in zero net supply, standardized, exchange-traded, margined, marked-to-market, netted, and centrally-cleared.

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Constructing a long futures hedge

As LocalVolatility has pretty much summed up, it seems that the example assumes that the futures are cash settled. However, it all works out the same way. … Consider the algebra, with a little added explanation 1) Futures position at maturity $$F_T-F_0=\underbrace{S_T-F_0}_{\text{Futures converge to spot at maturity}}$$ 2) Buy in the spot market $$\underbrace …
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