An example of a popular relative strategy involves buying and / or selling the BAX contract while simultaneously selling and / or buying its U.S. proxy, the Eurodollar contract (both short
term interest rate future contracts), which in turn is underlying the 3 - month U.S. dollar London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR).
The option of the seller in
an interest rate futures contract to take when negotiating the settlement of an obligation.
To hedge or offset this expected increase, you can sell
an interest rate futures contract.
For many equity index and
Interest rate future contracts (as well as for most equity options), this happens on the third Friday of certain trading months.