Contracts on the price of real estate include predictions of
the future value of the underlying asset.
The futures contract rewards the party that makes the most accurate prediction of
the future value of the underlying asset.
Not exact matches
For every investable
asset — publically traded or otherwise — the
underlying value of the
asset is the sum
of the discounted
future cash flows, and risk comes from paying too high a price for those cash flows.
The
value of a derivative depends on the
value of its
underlying asset, thus by predicting the
future price
of the
asset, the
future price
of the derivative contract can be judged and traded on.
There are three main kinds
of derivatives on the commodities market — contracts made between two or more parties who agree on the
value of the
underlying asset:
futures and forwards, options and OTC products.
Investing in commodities indices that are constructed using long or short positions in
futures on physical commodities whose
value is determined based on the price
of the
underlying physical commodity plus yield and that trade on public markets that provide adequate liquidity and transparency, with negligible costs and no storage deterioration risk, offer a practical method to gaining commodities exposure and can provide a means for market participants to access the five components
of the returns
of the
asset class.
Most often, derivatives involve some sort
of futures the
value of which will depend on the
future movement
of the
underlying asset.
They derive their
value from the
value of an
underlying asset or another financial instrument including
futures contracts.
Stock index
futures otherwise known as equity index
futures are
future contracts that use the
value of an index as an
underlying asset.
You are essentially betting on whether the
value of an
underlying asset is going to rise or fall in the
future compared to what it was when the contract was taken out (or executed).
As some
of Grayscale's previous fund can attest, the shares may trade at a substantial premium over the
value of of the
underlying asset if quoted on any secondary market in the
future.