• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Free ACCA & CIMA online courses from OpenTuition

Free ACCA & CIMA online courses from OpenTuition

Free Notes, Lectures, Tests and Forums for ACCA and CIMA exams

  • ACCA
  • CIMA
  • FIA
  • OBU
  • Books
  • Forums
  • Ask AI
  • Search
  • Register
  • Login
  • ACCA Forums
  • Ask ACCA Tutor
  • CIMA Forums
  • Ask CIMA Tutor
  • FIA
  • OBU
  • Buy/Sell Books
  • All Forums
  • Latest Topics

20% off ACCA & CIMA Books

OpenTuition recommends the new interactive BPP books for September 2025 exams.
Get your discount code >>

Alecto (Pilot Paper)

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA AFM Exams › Alecto (Pilot Paper)

  • This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated 6 years ago by John Moffat.
Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • August 25, 2018 at 10:16 pm #469430
    niki27
    Member
    • Topics: 82
    • Replies: 15
    • ☆☆

    Dear sir,
    While using futures options in this qn, it says the exercise price is 4% and June futures rate as 3.98%, when the interest rate increases by 0.5%

    The answer to the qn should the option being exercise according to the revision kit says no,

    I worked out the gain to be
    (4%-3.98%)* 22mn*5/12 = 0.001833 mn

    My doubt is is this gain too negligible to even consider exercising this option? Or am I making a big deal about this?

    Thanks

    August 26, 2018 at 7:31 am #469464
    John Moffat
    Keymaster
    • Topics: 57
    • Replies: 54696
    • ☆☆☆☆☆

    These are put options.

    Why on earth would anyone exercise the option and sell futures at 96.00 when it would mean buying futures at 96.02? There is no gain – there is a loss.

    I really do suggest that you watch my free lectures on interest rate risk management.

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
Log In

Primary Sidebar

Donate
If you have benefited from our materials, please donate

ACCA News:

ACCA My Exam Performance for non-variant

Applied Skills exams is available NOW

ACCA Options:  “Read the Mind of the Marker” articles

Subscribe to ACCA’s Student Accountant Direct

ACCA CBE 2025 Exams

How was your exam, and what was the exam result?

BT CBE exam was.. | MA CBE exam was..
FA CBE exam was.. | LW CBE exam was..

Donate

If you have benefited from OpenTuition please donate.

PQ Magazine

Latest Comments

  • Bimasha@123 on Discounted Cash Flow Techniques – ACCA Advanced Performance Management (APM)
  • Ken Garrett on Discounted Cash Flow Techniques – ACCA Advanced Performance Management (APM)
  • Bimasha@123 on Discounted Cash Flow Techniques – ACCA Advanced Performance Management (APM)
  • John Moffat on AA Chapter 7 Questions
  • John Moffat on FA Chapter 12 Questions Sales Tax

Copyright © 2025 · Support · Contact · Advertising · OpenLicense · About · Sitemap · Comments · Log in