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If the contract buyers use the underlying product, they use forward and futures contracts to eliminate market risk.

Say you are a manufacturer of breakfast cereal who will use 500,000 bushels of corn this year. If you buy corn only on the spot market, you have two worries: what the price will be when you need it, and whether there will be that much corn on the market this year. But by purchasing futures contracts you know what it will cost and when it will arrive.

If you're a farmer you'll use a forward contract to set the sale price of your corn, usually before you turn the key on your tractor to plant the new crop.

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