CH 06 Hull Fundamentals 9 TH Ed

Interest Rate Futures
Chapter 6
Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets, 9th Ed, Ch 6, Copyright © John C. Hull 2016 1
Day Count Convention
 Defines:
 the period of time to which the interest rate
applies
 The period of time used to calculate accrued
interest (relevant when the instrument is
bought of sold)
Day Count Conventions
in the U.S. (Page 136-137)
Treasury Bonds: Actual/Actual (in period)

Corporate Bonds: 30/360
Money Market Instruments: Actual/360
Examples
 Bond: 8% Actual/ Actual in period.
 4% is earned between coupon payment dates.
Accruals on an Actual basis. When coupons are
paid on March 1 and Sept 1, how much interest is
earned between March 1 and April 1?
 Bond: 8% 30/360
 Assumes 30 days per month and 360 days per
year. When coupons are paid on March 1 and Sept
1, how much interest is earned between March 1
and April 1?
Examples continued
 T-Bill: 8% Actual/360:
 8% is earned in 360 days. Accrual calculated
by dividing the actual number of days in the
period by 360. How much interest is earned
between March 1 and April 1?
The February Effect (Business Snapshot 6.1,
page 137)
 How many days of interest are earned

between February 28, 2017 and March 1,
2017 when
 day count is Actual/Actual in period?
 day count is 30/360?
Treasury Bill Prices in the US
360
P (100  Y )
n
Y is cash price per $100
P is quoted price
Treasury Bond Price Quotes
in the U.S
Cash price = Quoted price +

Accrued Interest
Treasury Bond Futures
Pages 139-143
Cash price received by party with short

position =
Most Recent Settlement Price ×
Conversion factor + Accrued interest
Example
 Most recent settlement price = 90.00
 Conversion factor of bond delivered =
1.3800
 Accrued interest on bond =3.00
 Price received for bond is
1.3800×90.00+3.00 = $127.20
per $100 of principal
Conversion Factor
The conversion factor for a bond is

approximately equal to the value of the
bond on the assumption that the yield
curve is flat at 6% with semiannual
compounding
CBOT
T-Bonds & T-Notes
Factors that affect the futures price:

 Delivery can be made any time
during the delivery month
 Any of a range of eligible bonds
can be delivered
 The wild card play
Eurodollar Futures (Pages 143-148)
 A Eurodollar is a dollar deposited in a bank outside the
United States
 Eurodollar futures are futures on the 3-month Eurodollar
deposit rate (same as 3-month LIBOR rate)
 One contract is on the rate earned on $1 million
 A change of one basis point or 0.01 in a Eurodollar
futures quote corresponds to a contract price change of
$25
Eurodollar Futures continued
 A Eurodollar futures contract is settled in cash
 When it expires (on the third Wednesday of the
delivery month) the final settlement price is 100
minus the actual three month LIBOR rate
Example
Date Quote
Nov 1 97.12
Nov 2 97.23
Nov 3 96.98
……. ……
Dec 21 97.42
Example
 Suppose you buy (take a long position in) a
contract on November 1
 The contract expires on December 21
 The prices are as shown
 How much do you gain or lose a) on the first
day, b) on the second day, c) over the whole
time until expiration?
Example continued
 If on Nov. 1 you know that you will have $1
million to invest on for three months on Dec 21,
the contract locks in a rate of
100 - 97.12 = 2.88%
 In the example you earn 100 – 97.42 = 2.58%
on $1 million for three months (=$6,450) and
make a gain day by day on the futures contract
of 30×$25 =$750
Formula for Contract Value (page 142)
 If Q is the quoted price of a Eurodollar
futures contract, the value of one contract
is
10,000[100-0.25(100-Q)]
 This corresponds to the $25 per basis
point rule
Forward Rates and Eurodollar
Futures (Page 147-148)
 Eurodollar futures contracts last as long as
10 years
 For Eurodollar futures lasting beyond two
years we cannot assume that the forward
rate equals the futures rate
There are Two Reasons
 Futures is settled daily where forward is
settled once
 Futures is settled at the beginning of the
underlying three-month period; FRA is
settled at the end of the underlying three-
month period
Forward Rates and Eurodollar
Futures continued
 A “convexity adjustment” often made is
Forward Rate = Futures Rate−0.5s2T1T2
 T1 is the start of period covered by the
forward/futures rate
 T2 is the end of period covered by the
forward/futures rate (90 days later that T1)
 s is the standard deviation of the change
in the short rate per year
Convexity Adjustment when
s=0.012 (Example 6.4, page147)
Maturity of Convexity
Futures Adjustment (bps)
2 3.2
4 12.2
6 27.0
8 47.5
10 73.8
Duration (page 148-152)
 Duration of a bond that provides cash flow ci at time ti is
 ci e  yti 
n
 ti 
B 

i 1 
where B is its price and y is its yield (continuously
compounded)
 This leads to
B
  Dy
B
Duration Continued
 When the yield y is expressed with
compounding m times per year
BDy
B  
1 y m
 The expression
D
1 y m
is referred to as the “modified duration”
Duration Matching
 This involves hedging against interest

rate risk by matching the durations of
assets and liabilities
 It provides protection against small
parallel shifts in the zero curve
Use of Eurodollar Futures
 One contract locks in an interest rate on
$1 million for a future 3-month period
 How many contracts are necessary to lock
in an interest rate on $1 million for a future
six-month period?
Duration-Based Hedge Ratio
PD P
VF DF
VF Contract Price for Interest Rate Futures
DF Duration of Asset Underlying Futures at
Maturity
P Value of portfolio being Hedged
DP Duration of Portfolio at Hedge Maturity
Example (page 153-154)
 Three month hedge is required for a $10 million portfolio.
Duration of the portfolio in 3 months will be 6.8 years.
 3-month T-bond futures price is 93-02 so that contract
price is $93,062.50
 Duration of cheapest to deliver bond in 3 months is 9.2
years
 Number of contracts for a 3-month hedge is
10,000,000  6.8
 79.42
93,062.50  9.2
Limitations of Duration-Based
Hedging
 Assumes that only parallel shift in yield
curve take place
 Assumes that yield curve changes are
small
 When T-Bond futures is used assumes
there will be no change in the cheapest-
to-deliver bond
GAP Management (Business Snapshot 6.3,
page 152)
This is a more sophisticated approach

used by financial institutions to hedge
interest rates. It involves
 Bucketing the zero curve
 Hedging exposure to situation where rates
corresponding to one bucket change and all
other rates stay the same

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Interest Rate Futures

Treasury Bonds: Actual/Actual (in period)

 How many days of interest are earned

Cash price = Quoted price +

Cash price received by party with short

The conversion factor for a bond is

Factors that affect the futures price:

 Duration of a bond that provides cash flow ci at time ti is

 This involves hedging against interest

This is a more sophisticated approach

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