Agricultural Futures and Options: Principles and Strategies

From Book News, Inc.
Beginning-level text provides the understanding and basic tools that are needed to use the future markets and options on futures contracts effectively. Emphasis is on the agricultural commodities, but the concepts and applications are relevant for any product or instrument for which futures are traded. Requires no formal education in economics. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Book Description
Reflecting on the agricultural future options markets as the stable road through the often times volatile world economy, this important guide provides a basic but functional treatment of futures/options in price risk management for agricultural commodities, fully supporting material with actual data analyses to demonstrate and illustrate concepts. Offers an integrated treatment of fundamental and technical analyses of the markets, and provides extensive treatment of fundamental demand/supply analysis with data-rich examples and illustrations. Presents full coverage of technical analysis, using actual charts and prices to demonstrate concepts, and discusses the bar chart as guides to management decisions. Emphasizes interest rate, stock index, and currency futures as important to the agribusiness and multinational firm, providing a detailed study of these dimensions and sources of risk. Now updates all data-driven illustrations and examples and offers extended content, coverage, and sophistication to treatment on options.

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Reflecting on the agricultural future options markets as the stable road through the often times volatile world economy, this important guide provides a basic but functional treatment of futures/options in price risk management for agricultural commodities, fully supporting material with actual data analyses to demonstrate and illustrate concepts. Offers an integrated treatment of fundamental and technical analyses of the markets, and provides extensive treatment of fundamental demand/supply analysis with data-rich examples and illustrations. Presents full coverage of technical analysis, using actual charts and prices to demonstrate concepts, and discusses the bar chart as guides to management decisions. Emphasizes interest rate, stock index, and currency futures as important to the agribusiness and multinational firm, providing a detailed study of these dimensions and sources of risk. Now updates all data-driven illustrations and examples and offers extended content, coverage, and sophistication to treatment on options.


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An introductory text for students with some exposure to basic principles of economics, designed for a one-semester course or a two- quarter sequence. Coverage includes supply and demand, bar charts, psychology of markets, exchange rate futures, price risk management strategies, and cash-futures relationships. Includes chapter summaries and key terms, plus a glossary. This second edition offers expanded coverage of options on futures and option premiums, and new chapters on foreign currencies and stock market applications. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.


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