However, the forward …show more content…
Besides, it is a cost effective and convenient way to make international transaction. However, if the currency appreciate, the company may facing the rise of the reduction of demand due to change in fluctuate exchange rate, if the exchange rate decrease the values of contract …show more content…
Besides, investor can reach a huge cost savings by its great leveraging power, because the options position can mimic a stock position identically. As options not only can reduce the risk by hedging, but also have higher potential returns. Regarding to the case, assume that a US corporation have $100,000 that need to pay in euros in six months, the option is purchased to mitigate uncertainty rate of risk and provide the right to US corporation give up $100,000 to obtain €85,000 in six months. Furthermore, options can create positions synthetics, thus it is a flexible method to attain the investment in multiple ways.
The reason of not use forward contract is that, it is not an investment and only used to reduce risk between producers and consumers, thus it is not the attractive financial instruments to corporate money. The US corporation will loss the chance to gain windfall profit from movements in exchange rate. The disadvantage of forward contract is that it cannot guarantee if the outcome with hedging is worse than without hedging, where it is not occur while using