They also construct static and dynamic
portfolios of gold futures in efforts to replicate spot gold and leveraged gold price behaviors.
Roughly one month ago, the
price of a gold futures contract expiring in December was trading at just above $ 1,200 per ounce.
But to somehow put things into context for now, it probably still helps to note that the average daily turnover of physical gold spot contracts on the Shanghai Gold Exchange is over $ 1bn, while an average of about $ 32bn
worth of gold futures trade on Comex each day.
The price
of gold futures for December delivery rose $ 3.70 to settle at $ 1,294.70 per ounce after the president's shutdown comments.
Like $ GLD, the Gold Double Long ETF ($ DGP) tracks the price of spot gold commodity, but is leveraged to move at double the percentage gain /
loss of gold futures.
In their August 2014 paper entitled «Price
Dynamics of Gold Futures and Gold Leveraged ETFs», Tim Leung and Brian Ward compare the price evolutions of spot gold, gold futures and leveraged gold ETFs.
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Gold mining company reserves in the ground should gain appreciation as the market loses confidence in «paper gold» assets as the physical gold market tightens with increased investment flows and the
ratio of gold futures contracts to warehouse inventories rises punctuates the scarcity of physical gold to the amount derivative gold instruments traded on a daily basis.
An educational article on trading different futures and commodity markets around economic reports along with a chart
review of the gold futures market which is trying to break lower as we close the trading for the week of March 12th through March 16th 201
UBG is designed to represent the collateralized returns of a
basket of gold futures contracts that are diversified across five maturies from three months to three years — the entire liquid forward curve of the gold contracts.
Right at 0830 AM «someone» dumped $ 1.8 billion
of gold futures onto the market and the forced the gold price by 20 dollars.
Over the past several years the
prices of gold futures contracts have generally been very close to the spot price and there have been regular small dips in futures prices to below the spot price, but this situation is a natural and predictable effect of the Fed's unnatural zero - interest - rate policy.