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- From: mmm@qedqcd.rye.ny.us (Mike Miskulin)
- Subject: Re: Palladium
- Organization: High Energy Concepts
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:11:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.021126.1744@qedqcd.rye.ny.us>
- References: <920717124300.202026cd@FNALD.FNAL.GOV>
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- In article <920717124300.202026cd@FNALD.FNAL.GOV> ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE writes:
- >Just went long one 100 oz Palladium contract for December delivery. Contract
- >price $88.00 per oz. Note the September contract is $88.70 so it is cheaper
- >to buy Palladium in the future than today. This means that speculators think
- >the market is going down.
- >
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- It also means that there is a cost of carry to be considered. If you take
- delivery in September vs December you have lost 3 months of interest on
- the cash you use for your purchase - lets take the 3 month Treasury as the
- risk free rate - at about 3.25%. This gives an uncompounded loss of about
- $0.70 to own palladium in September vs December.
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- Mike
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