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Optimal Sequential Futures Trading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Jerome Baesel  and
Dwight Grant
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Hedgers adjust their futures market positions to reflect new information. Therefore, the anticipation of new information creates future decision points and thus a multiperiod decision problem. Previous studies (see [2], [4], [5], [7], and [8]) which solved the problem of choosing optimal futures market hedges have not addressed this issue. Rather, these studies have derived optimal hedges in one-period frameworks. In general, this solution is incorrect if, during the time the hedge is in effect, new information is anticipated.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 17 , Issue 5 , December 1982 , pp. 683 - 695
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1982

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