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Hi to everyone, so to determine the theoretical future price for january 2023 platinum future contract, we need we can use the cost of carry model.
00:15
So, future price equals to spot price plus financing cost.
00:23
So, spot price can be find by use platinum engelhardt industrial bullion price as proxy.
00:50
So, finding the financial cost we use 3 month libor rate.
00:59
The third one is to calculate the theoretical future price.
01:04
So, future price is equal to spot price plus spot price into financing rate into days of maturity by 360.
01:18
So, now we will calculate this assuming spot price dollar 1000 per ounce financing rate at 0 .01 percent and days of maturity of maturity approx 120 days.
01:41
So, the future price formula we will put the values in the formula 1000 plus dollar 1000 0 .001 this is all 0.
01:54
So, 120 by 360 the on solving we will get dollar 11003 .33 per ounce.
02:10
Now, the b part of the question is asking for compare the actual reported future price future price to theoretical price...