In this case, the futures contract (purchase or sale) is settled at
the closing price of the underlying asset as on the expiry date of the contract.
Not exact matches
The GBTC trades like a
closed - end - fund usually at a
price that is substantially different than the value
of the
underlying asset, and does not possess the ability to create or redeem shares in the open market.
Shares are
priced once daily — after the
close of business — based on the value
of the
underlying assets.
The shares
of the Spain Fund, Inc., a
closed - end mutual fund investing in publicly traded Spanish securities, were bid up in
price from approximately net
asset value (NAV)-- the combined market value
of the
underlying investments divided by the number
of shares outstanding — to more than twice that level.
Since both the ETF and the basket
of underlying assets are tradeable throughout the day, traders take advantage
of momentary arbitrage opportunities, which keeps the ETF
price close to its fair value.
One side effect
of a «
close - end» structure is that the LIC share
price can depart from the value
of the
underlying assets (usually other equities), so the share price can trade at a premium or discount to its Net Tangible A
assets (usually other equities), so the share
price can trade at a premium or discount to its Net Tangible
AssetsAssets.
ETF providers use stocks»
prices to calculate an ETF's intraday
underlying value throughout the trading day, and the
closing net
asset value (NAV)
of an equity ETF is typically very
close to the ETF's
closing price.
The market
price of an ETF unit should be
close to the NAV per unit
of the
underlying assets.
The creation and redemption mechanisms help ETF shares trade at a
price close to the market value
of their
underlying assets.
While
closed - end funds often trade at a premium or discount because they have a fixed number
of shares outstanding, market makers work with authorized participants (APs) to strive to keep the
price of ETF shares
close to fair value (i.e., in line with the ETF's
underlying net
asset value (NAV)-RRB-.
For example, if the
underlying asset had a
price of S0 at
closing the day before the valuation date, then we used options with strike
prices in the range
of 0.75 S0 and 1.25 S0.