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1 Hedge - Companies Investments Individuals Benefits and services that Globx O&F offers in the derivatives market. globxofweb@yahoo.com

2 Services that offers Globx Options & Futures. HEDGES Our mission is to advise and operate hedge against risks using financial instruments that offer immediate protection against unforeseen changes in prices of currencies, commodities and interest rates, with the benefit of reducing risk and maximize performance to protect the heritage of your company. What is a hedge? It is the process through which the company sets a price of some product that it needs to do its principal activity. Making hedge avoids the uncertainty and assumes stability in debts and investments that impact the cost of its product and have security in its planning. Why do your hedges with Globx O& F? We have 12 years in the market since our constitution and that allows us to have acquired the necessary knowledge and technology to carry out the STRATEGY that your company needs, and that when making the hedge is very important to analyze each company and each situation as well as the stage where is the product market to cover. This is for achieving a hedge efficient and with an acceptable cost. What are the benefits that I can get as client of consulting Globx O&F in hedges? The accessibility of our products and hedge strategies that we have designed for more than 200 corporations, our training, support in understanding the product, where you will participate and you will know how to go in the evolution of hedge. Who is Globx Options & Futures? Globx Options & Futures is an independent financial adviser authorised under article 12-bis of the Securities Market Act to do this activity since One of the main features of its regulation is that it has forbidden to take its clients' money and another one is that transactions will be registered in the name of the client which previously has to sign his contract on its behalf with Broker authorized to guard his values, could be Rosenthal Collins Group, Prudential Securities or Alaron U.S. Globx O&F has distinguished as being a forerunner in implementing policies Risk Management, in addition of had driven the Mexican Peso operates 13 months ahead in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 2001 and in April 2003 interest rates Tiie to 28 days and CETES to 91 days. We have participated in newspaper s publications : EL FINANCIERO, AGROBUSINESS and others, and magazines like El INVERSIONISTA. At the same time we have been mentioned in different types of advertising since 1998 with different views on the Futures and Options market in products that affect our country. Our Partners are in Certificates Series 3 of the National Futures Association, regulating agent in the U.S.

3 Services that offers Globx Options & Futures. HEDGES What can cover? The products that can be covered are almost all of them. However the ones that are more interesting for the Mexican Business Community are as follows: Currencies: Precious Metals: Industrial Metals: Grains: Meat: Energy: Food: Interest Rates Euro, Peso-Dollar, Gold, Silver, Copper, Aluminium, Zinc Wheat, Corn, Soybean and derivatives, Cattle, Pigs and derivatives, Natural gas, Fuels, Coffee, Cotton, TIIE, Prime, Eurodollar, Libor and Bonds What kind of hedges strategies can we devise for your company? We have very clear the way of how to carry out the hedges that your company needs. In this sense the goal is to make hedge with limited risk or known since its inception. It is important to note that the hedge should know under the cash flow that the company has to carry them out and then we can design, along with the stage of the market for the product to cover, the hedge strategy and the financial instrument more appropriate. Buy futures, Sale futures, Options upwards and downwards (buying and selling), Spreads (lowering the cost differential) Zero Cost Collars (range insurer zero cost), Dinamic hedge (rackets), Options Synthetic Basis Trades (sell / buy basis) among others financial instruments most appropriate. What steps you should follow to be able to access to the market hedges? Globx Options & Futures is an independent financial adviser authorised under article 12-bis of the Ley del Mercado de Valores to carry out this activity since In this regard we advise you to carry out your hedge of the surest way: a) Fill out the questionnaire in order to add its membership contract to Broker, signing and you will receive your account number. b) Make a meeting with the Executive Board in order to define the risks involved and in that way you can make an analysis of the type of hedge and strategy you need and it s appropriate to your company c) Develop a policy of hedge in accordance with the guidelines and objectives of the company. d) Send the hedge s money directly to your account with the Broker and perform the operation. e) O& F charges a fix fee per contract operated Round Turn. f) Perform hedge is a Style of Direction that injects security to your company. ACT NOW. Those are specific products for YOU, who have a different financial actitude

4 Services offered by Options & Futures INVESTMENTS Our mission is to create an innovative concept and the only one in creating portfolios that emulate a business go on. Using different products with FUTURES we create portfolios that are focused on the Financial Enviroment (Virtual Bank) to Agriculture Products (Virtual Ranch) and the Trade in Merchants (Virtual Marketer). Those products under the title to VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES to facilitate customer investor (Individuals) get interesting yields and use his earnings as a real business. Risk Management is the basis for the success of these Portfolio. What is a Virtual Investment en Globx O&F? It is investing in futures markets with a concept that competes with being operating a BANK, RANCH. Or MARKETER. They have the adjective of Virtual because we access the futures market to buy Gold, Silver, Wheat, Corn, Dow Jones Index, Euros, Mexican Peso, Copper among others without having them physically and that operations are leveraging to the futures in the stock. The return you get comes the movement that present prices of products in the stocks of New York and Chicago, which derive from offer and demand from the world supplies for those products relatives to physical use. Why should you do your Investment with Globx Options & Futures? We have designed portfolios that have a unique process in deciding to buy or sell for our customers. The most important characteristics are in our written METHODOLOGY that has to be followed by our traders at the time of investing along with risk management, which translates into constants PROFITS. The goal is to seek a return of 5% monthly dollar (60% per annum) What are the benefits as a client of consulting Globx O&F in virtual enterprises? The prime benefit is to come in to invest in the futures market with a unique Concept with the experience accumulate from the members in O&F in speculative investment in the futures market which exceeds 12 years. From this experience is born the METHODOLOGY of O&F for invest clients s money which leaves out any subjectivity which assures us that our TRADERS are following the lines of Investment and Risk Management in each of the investment operations that we made it for our clients. Entering at the futures market by buying a unit or multiple units, with investment capital available ranging from $ 11,000 (eleven thousand) U.S. dollars. To be able to withdraw the utility each month, always leaving the amount of each Virtual Unit (either Bank, Ranch or Marketer). Virtual Enterprise (Obtain your Bank, Ranch o Virtual Marketer)

5 Services that offers Globx Options & Futures. INVESTMENTS What kind of Futures are invested within the Generic Products? It invests directly in Buy Futures (when is bullish trend in the product) and Sale Futures (with a bearish trend) can win in both ways. The choosen products in each virtual enterprise are the ones most interest to the investor community Mexican. What is the risk within a Generic Enterprise? The yield on the virtual products is variable, so it s possible to exist an utility as a loss. The risk of investing in virtual enterprises is limited to a specific amount. Nowadays when signing the risk disclosure by the client with O&F is stipulated that the account may not be operated when it reaches an approximate amount to 20% from baseline invested. The most important thing here is to limit losses as the market of Futures gives important yields due to the significant degree of leverage within. Note: By signing your contract of Virtual Enterprise (Bank, Ranch or Marketer) you choose the degree of risk accepted.

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