[Hrishhk]

Hi John I have a question here.
In scenario 1 of this question the spot rate has changed from 1·1497 to 1·1534 but the future price in a opposite direction 1·1560 to 1·1552. This essentially undermines the effort of hedging since this reduction results in a loss on futures, on top of a higher spot rate.
I feel this is contradicting the basic concept of hedging and usually if the spot rate goes up shouldn’t the currency future price go up as well although not in a linear manner?

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