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Forwards Overview

A Forward is a contract where the user agrees to buy or sell an asset at a fixed price and date in the future. Gain or loss depends on the difference between the agreed price and the market price at expiry.

Placing Forwards Orders

  1. In the Market tab, select Forwards

  2. Enter your order parameters

    • Type: Next Auction or Ithaca Expiry

    • Side: "+" indicates a LONG/BUY position on the contract selected, "–" indicates a SHORT/SELL position on the contract selected.

    • Size: The exposure equivalent of your desired asset. Entering 1 means you are trading a contract for one unit of the underlier

    • Unit Price: This is the order limit price which will be entered into the auction. The system feeds a suggested price, which is a theoretical mid price based on Ithaca protocol proprietary pricing model: these prices are not tradable neither are they guaranteeing a fill of entered. These prices are meant to help anchor a limit price to be entered that may have higher probability of a match.

  3. Verify Order Summary

    • Order limit: Order price

    • Collateral requirement: The amount required to be locked so as to ensure that the order enters the auction.

    • Platform fee: Fee to be paid in case of execution.

    • Total premium: The total to be paid net of fees.

  4. "Submit to Auction" and approve your transaction in your wallet

A user entering an order to long one Forward of strike K will have to post an amount of K USDC as collateral.

A user entering an order to short one Forward of strike K will have to post an amount of one ETH as collateral.

+ Next auction forward will mean using USDC at unit price to go long ETH. This is the equivalent of going long ETH on a 'spot' basis in an unmargined world.

- Next auction forward means using ETH at unit price to go long USDC | short ETH.

+ Dated forward means taking delivery of ETH at expiry at entered unit price. User decides the unit price at which user is willing to go long ETH at expiry date.

Forwards Contract

Item
Description

Products

Next ( focal ) auction forward

Dated ( defined expiry ) forward

Payout Formula

Long: reference price - strike

Short: - ( reference price - strike )

Underlying

WETH/USDC

Settlement Style

Ithaca settlement

Exercise Style

European, auto-exercised

Settlement Currency

WETH

Strike Currency

USDC

Collateral Currency

WETH for short; USDC for long

Collateral Amount

1 WETH for short, strike USDC for long

Collateral Management

Fully collateralized, pre-funded

Multiplier

1

Strike Price

Fixed standardized published levels

Reference Price

ITHACA Reference Fixing

Expiry Dates

1st focal auction on relevant expiry Friday