[R-SIG-Finance] Question: How to Notionalize a Commodity Future?

[davidr at rhotrading.com]

I believe you have it.
I always encourage the use of UNITS:

(# contracts) * (contract size = 60000 lbs/contract) * (price = 36.36
cents/lb) (0.01 dollars/cent) = dollars = the current worth of you
number of contracts. Notice that the units cancel appropriately. The DES
page in Bloomberg helps here.

HTH,

David L. Reiner
Rho Trading Securities, LLC
550 W. Jackson Blvd #1000
Chicago, IL 60661-5704
 
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ngottlieb at marinercapital.com
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 10:08 AM
To: whit.armstrong at hcmny.com
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Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Finance] Question: How to Notionalize a Commodity
Future?

Whit:

Thanks for your quick response.
I tried doing this:

# of contracts x contract price x contractsize x underlying price of the
contract size (ie. 18,000 bushels at whatever amount).
                                          Contracts      Price     Quote
Units       Contract size        cents/per pound
	BOK7 Comdty	SOYBEAN OIL FUTR May07	200	          32.48
lbs.	cents/lb.	60,000.00	         .01 

  I am not sure if this is correct to get notional value?

Neil

-----Original Message-----
From: Armstrong, Whit [mailto:whit.armstrong at hcmny.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 10:56 AM
To: Gottlieb, Neil
Cc: r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [R-SIG-Finance] Question: How to Notionalize a Commodity
Future?

notionalize?

If you are talking about the notional value of a conctact it's just
price * contract size, but sizes are specific to each contract.  you can
get this information from the exchanges or from BBG. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of 
> ngottlieb at marinercapital.com
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 10:49 AM
> To: r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] Question: How to Notionalize a Commodity 
> Future?
> 
> Does anyone know how to notionalize a commodity future (i.e CBT Corn, 
> CBT Soybean etc.)?
> 
> And if so what is the calculation?
> 
> Thanks,
> Neil Gottlieb
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