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ASX Commodities: Grains
July 2015
Kristen Hopkins
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Basis
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What is basis? Why does basis matter?
• Basis is the difference between the physical grain price and futures price.
• More commonly, basis is any traded relative value spread by location, quality, physical or derivative.
Brisbane APW1 Track(Dec15-Jan16)
Basis
ASX NSW Wheat Futures
(Jan16)
Factors that influence basis;
• Local market supply and demand
• Logistics
• Weather and crop conditions
• Seasonality
• AUD/USD volatility
$315 MT
+$17 MT
$298 MT
When using futures to hedge traders are still exposed to basis risk, i.e. movements in basis determine the effectiveness of a hedge.
Hedging Australian Wheat using offshore Futures
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ASX NSW Wheat Versus CME Chicago SRW Wheat
Hedging Australian wheat using CME Chicago SRW wheat futures exposes your overall hedged position to moves in basis:
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Hedging Australian Wheat using Offshore Futures
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ASX NSW Wheat Versus CME Chicago SRW Wheat
Using ASX Wheat Futures is an efficient way to get exposure to Australian Wheat basis Chicago Wheat.
Example
• Exporter at Harvest
• Getting long 2,000MT Australian Wheat basis
• Buying Jan-16 ASX NSW Wheat at 106USc/bu over Selling Dec-15 CME SRW Wheat
• Notional contract value: 596,000 AUD (2000MT x 298 AUD/MT)
• Converting to USc/bu: 621.25 USc/bu = (298 x 0.7660 x 100) / 36.7437
• Calculating Basis: 621.25 – 515.25 = 106 USc/bu
LegLong
@106USc/bu
..if you want to Short@106USc/bu
100 lots January 2016 ASX NSW Wheat @ 298 Buy Sell
15 lots December 2015 CME SRW Wheat @ 515.25 Sell Buy
FX Forward: 596,000 AUD @ 0.7660 Buy Sell
Hedging Track Markets - Brisbane
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ASX Vs CME Grain Futures
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Hedging Track Markets - Newcastle
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Hedging Track Markets – Port Kembla
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New Eastern Australia Wheat Contract
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• Expanded delivery arc to include extra port zones of Brisbane, Melbourne and Geelong in addition to existing port zones of Newcastle and Port Kembla.
• Improved flexibility with an increased confidence to be able to deliver the current grain specification anywhere across the east coast.
• The contract will price where there is most supply adding to correlations with export parity and making the contract more relevant to exporters and a wider array of end users both domestically and abroad.
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Kristen HopkinsManager, Commodities Sales
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+61 (0) 417 367 443
www.asx.com.au/grainfutures
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