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the role and purpose of hedging.   The history of modern futures began in Chicago in the early and marketing of agricultural products. Gluts and shortages of these products caused chaotic fluctuations in prices. This led to the development of the market allows the grain merchants, processors, businesses and agricultural trade in contracts to insulate them against the risk of adverse price changes and to give them security.

The first commodity exchange was the creation of Chicago Board of Trade, CBOT in 1848.   Since then, modern derivative products has grown to more than the origin of agricultural commodity futures exchange and was   Security establishes offsetting the futures or commodity exchange, thereby initiating a fixed price for their product. Someone purchase of securities is known as "long" or "receipt".   Someone is selling a security is known as "Short" such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which are responsible for the regulation of mutual fund manager has a portfolio with a value of $ 10,000,000 largely similar to the S & P 500 Index.   Portfolio Manager believes the economy is deteriorating with worsening low wages, profits.   He now has exposure to market risk.

Manager thinks its capabilities. If he sells his portfolio early, he also is in danger of wrong and missing further rally.   Sales also security is the best solution to alleviate the short-term risk.   It starts by calling his CTA (Commodity Trading CTA calls on the fund manager and closes its purchase of security by an equivalent number of contracts on the CME.   Independently Example 2: electronics firm ABC has recently signed to provide $ 5,000,000 ABC is aware, there are double the risk. 1st rising and volatile price of copper in 6 months may result in losses for the company. 2nd   fluctuations in currency values can be easily add to these losses.   ABC is a young company, it can not absorb these losses because of the highly competitive market closure is greater   than the lure of profit growth should fall in copper prices.   After all, ABC is not stock speculation business, ABC notifies the CTA to close the hedge from the sale and redemption of copper contacts, the euro.

There many examples traded on markets.   would be wise to consult a qualified Commodity Trading