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The second step introduces consideration of the purchaser's constraints (storage capacity constraint, credit constraint and safety constraint in nearby futures), and the covariance relationship among the costs of procurement from the alternate purchasing strategies. The results of the model are optimal portfolio of short and long term contracts. These portfolios represent the optimal speculative decision of forward pricing soybean meal with respect to market uncertainty, the firm's constraints and the risk aversion of the manager.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-15T20:28:48Z (GMT). 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