Examples of WTI Futures Contracts in a sentence
Specifically, the Sub-Fund will invest in current year December month WTI Futures Contracts before rolling in every October, in next year December month WTI Futures Contracts after rolling in every October, and in both current year and next year December month WTI Futures Contracts during the Roll Period in every October.
In order to achieve the investment objective of the Sub-Fund, the Manager will adopt a full replication strategy through investing directly in December month WTI Futures Contracts so as to give the Sub-Fund the performance of the Underlying Index.
The number of commodities represented by such WTI Futures Contracts is only one (i.e. only crude oil).
In view of this, the Manager, after consultation with the relevant parties including the Clearing Broker, the Trustee and the SFC, made a decision to purchase a total number of 6,750 crude oil put option September 2020 WTI Futures Contracts which are listed on New York Mercantile Exchange with an expiration date on 20August 2020 (the “Put Options”) on behalf of the Sub-Fund on 1 May 2020.
The Prospectus states that in seeking to achieve the Sub-Fund’s investment objective, the Manager adopts a full replication strategy through investing directly in WTI Futures Contracts so as to give the Sub-Fund the performance of the Index (the “Stated Strategy”).
Accordingly, if the position held or controlled by the Manager reaches the relevant position limit or if the NAV of the Product grows significantly, the above restriction may prevent creations of Units due to the inability of the Product to acquire further WTI Futures Contracts.
In order to achieve the investment objective of the Sub-Fund, the Manager will adopt a full replication strategy through investing directly in December month WTI Futures Contracts so as to give the Sub-Fund the performance of the underlying index.
The Clearing Broker has informed the Manager that with effect from 4 May 2020 it will not facilitate any increase in the number of WTI Futures Contracts held by the Sub-Fund.
Reference is made to the Announcement in respect of the Sub-Fund issued on 28 April 2020 (the “28 April Announcement”), which informed the Unitholders that the Index Provider had announced that it would pre-roll WTI Futures Contracts to the July 2020 WTI Futures Contracts for all S&P DJI commodity indices, including the Index.
Among the 25 % loss of PEDEEE, 15 % is a technical loss and 13 % is a non-technical loss.