Price hedging for coffee, using the futures market

Authors

  • Gerónimo Barrios-Puente Postgraduate in Agricultural Economics-Chapingo Autonomous University. Mexico-Texcoco Federal Highway km 38.5, Chapingo, Texcoco, State of Mexico, Mexico. ZC. 56230.
  • Oscar Galván-Manuel Postgraduate in Agricultural Economics-Chapingo Autonomous University. Mexico-Texcoco Federal Highway km 38.5, Chapingo, Texcoco, State of Mexico, Mexico. ZC. 56230.
  • Francisco Pérez-Soto Postgraduate in Agricultural Economics-Chapingo Autonomous University. Mexico-Texcoco Federal Highway km 38.5, Chapingo, Texcoco, State of Mexico, Mexico. ZC. 56230.
  • Dora Ma. Sangerman-Jarquín Mexico Valley Experimental Field-INIFAP. Highway Los Reyes-Texcoco km 13.5, Coatlinchan, Texcoco, State of Mexico, Mexico. ZC. 56250.
  • Roberto Carlos García-Sánchez Postgraduate in Economics-Postgraduate College. Mexico-Texcoco Highway km 36.5, Montecillo, Texcoco, State of Mexico, Mexico. ZC. 56230.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29312/remexca.v13i6.3313

Keywords:

futures market, hedging, risk, utility, volatility

Abstract

The present work completed in January 2021 determined a price hedging model in the coffee futures markets. Following the analytical method, first, the behavior of the historical prices from January 2015 to December 2020 in the spot market and in the futures market was observed and analyzed, later using the standard deviation of the historical data, the volatility that exists in the futures market and its impact on the final price that producers receive for their harvest at the end of each production cycle was calculated. Applying the statistical theory of the binomial tree, the expected prices of the following three four-month periods are estimated, subsequently, the utility function of the producer is modeled, assuming it as the expectation of income and its variance, later the utility function of the producer is found and optimized to know the number of contracts that guarantees the hedging of the price of production. The results of this work suggest that the final income of the producer will depend directly on the production that is expected to have in each productive cycle, on the speculative game on the stock exchange (number of contracts) and on the forecast of the spot price at the time of the evaluation, finally, it is concluded that the producers could be motivated to use futures contracts as a hedging strategy, since even if the profits are not extraordinary, the income will always be higher when such hedging is used.

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Published

2022-10-24

How to Cite

Barrios-Puente, Gerónimo, Oscar Galván-Manuel, Francisco Pérez-Soto, Dora Ma. Sangerman-Jarquín, and Roberto Carlos García-Sánchez. 2022. “Price Hedging for Coffee, Using the Futures Market”. Revista Mexicana De Ciencias Agrícolas 13 (6). México, ME:1147-54. https://doi.org/10.29312/remexca.v13i6.3313.

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