{"id":165374,"date":"2022-05-06T15:43:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theotcspace.com\/knowledge_item\/bond-forwards-or-futures\/"},"modified":"2022-05-06T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:43:31","slug":"bond-forwards-or-futures","status":"publish","type":"knowledge_item","link":"https:\/\/theotcspace.com\/knowledge_item\/bond-forwards-or-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond Forwards or Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agreement whereby the short position (seller) agrees to deliver pre-specified bonds to the long (buyer) at a set price and within a certain time frame. The forward contract is an agreement between two counterparties to exchange bonds at an agreed price and time in the future. The futures contract is typically traded on an exchange and the underlying bond is &#8220;standardized&#8221;. &#8220;Standardized&#8221; means that it is a fictional bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"knowledge_category":[4247],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theotcspace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_item\/165374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theotcspace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theotcspace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledge_item"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theotcspace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledge_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theotcspace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_category?post=165374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}