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Unanticipated Delivery Of A Futures Contract

A story as told by John Hull in his book Options, Futures and Other Derivatives.

This story concerns a new employee of the financial institution who had not previously worked in the financial sector. One of the clients of the financial institution regularly entered into a long futures contract on live cattle for hedging purposes and issued instructions to close out the position on the last day of trading. The new employee was given responsibility for ...

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