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I’m going to be sharing more in the coming weeks on the basics of exchanges & the products they offer. One such product is futures; below is a great example of why futures products are so important to businesses and the economy as a whole.
Read on for more 
Ray Dalio started Bridgewater in 1975; among his first clients were McDonald’s and a chicken producer. McDonalds wanted to launch a new product – the chicken nugget – but didn’t know how to protect against the volatile price of chicken.pic.twitter.com/rjs26VW4Iy
“There was a lot of volatility in the chicken market at that time and they were worried that if they set a menu price and the price of chicken then went through the roof that they would get squeezed or they’d have to raise the prices and it would be unstable” - Ray Dalio
To overcome this problem, Dalio went to the chicken producer and found the root of the issue - corn and soybean price volatility, the main cost inputs to the producer.pic.twitter.com/x5WNI6I5ir
Dalio & his fund found a way to use corn & soybean futures to lock in costs to the chicken producer, allowing them to turn around and offer a fixed chicken price to McDonalds.
The result? $MCD launched the McNugget in 1983:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy399X7fx7A …
Corn, soybean and other agriculture futures trading accounts for over $450M in $CME revenue per year - showing the massive scale and demand for these kind of hedging instruments.
Link to CNBC story covering this:https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/03/how-ray-dalio-helped-launch-mcdonalds-chicken-mcnugget.html …
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