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Hello, I am euro based and I am currently intraday trading Micro E-mini S&P futures. Could someone give an advise on where to find an example of hedging currency exchange rate risk when opening positions of index futures contracts?
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Do you really have currency risk by opening a 'position'?
You obviously have currency risk depositing money into a brokerage account with a difference currency to yours, and any money you make has currency risk, but I'm not sure just opening a position has risk?
You are obviously right and I did not describe it properly. The currency risk is obviously on the capital and I it is my first time I want to hedge for exchange rate fluctuations. Obviously I am new in trading and my problem is, I have for example 10000$ capital and I have to hedge against Euro/Usd fluctuations. How do I calculate how many Euro/Usd FX contracts I need to sell or buy for this capital to be hedged? Is there an example somewhere, which is a bit easy to understand and study it?
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The smallest future is the Micro EUR/USD M6E which is EUR 12,500 so about USD 14,500. If you literally have $10,000 that would mean your choice is to either be completely unhedged or 45% over hedged! Sorry.
Since your natural currency is EUR and you have bought USD, you need to sell USD to hedge the position, hence would need to buy a Micro Future.
Another way to think about.
You exchange your EUR 10000 into USD at 1.15 and have USD 11,500
If EUR/USD goes down to 1.1 your USD will now buy you back EUR 10,454 which is a profit.
If EUR/USD goes up to 1.2 your USD will now only buy you back EUR 9,583.
Hence you need to protect yourself from rates rising and would need to buy a futures contract.
You were very clear and I have understood the way to do it. Ninjatrader which I use, calculates the balance from Euro to Usd in a daily basis, which basically my account in dollars is smaller every time euro losses value against usd. Hence, i guess I need to do the opposite and sell usd in order to hedge my account?
