Possibilities and methods of FX risk managing

This paper focuses on businesses participating in international trade in terms of their possibilities to eliminate FX risk. There are currency derivatives analysed in the paper with en emphasis on their value drivers. I've also mentioned interest rate differentials, expacted exchange rates and anticipated asssets yields as their key value drivers. A practical part deals with a systematic application of singular derivatives to long positions. The examined period is 2008. The results indicate that derivatives don't protect businesses from loses if there is a medium or long-run domestic currency appreciation involved. It basicaly turned out that cash-flow converted to czech crown kept deteriorating as if there were no hedging instruments applied