贵金属专题报告

1. Report Industry Investment Rating There is no information about the report industry investment rating in the provided content. 2. Core Viewpoints of the Report - Currently, there are no risk - free inter - term arbitrage opportunities for domestic gold, silver, and platinum futures as their term spreads are all less than the term arbitrage costs. However, there is a certain degree of positive term arbitrage opportunity for palladium, as the spread between the PD2608 and PD2612 contracts is 6.5 yuan/gram, slightly larger than the 4 - month term arbitrage cost of 5.48 yuan/gram [4][12]. - There are no statistically significant term arbitrage opportunities for domestic gold futures as the term far - near ratios are all within the 80% confidence interval. For silver futures, since the term far - near ratios are mostly below the 95% confidence interval, investors interested can focus on the statistical term arbitrage strategy of shorting near - month contracts and longing far - month contracts [4][16]. - There are no risk - free spot - futures arbitrage opportunities for domestic gold, silver, platinum, and palladium futures as the spot - futures spreads are all less than the positive or negative spot - futures arbitrage costs. The spot - futures ratio of gold futures is within the 80% confidence interval, while that of silver futures is below the 95% confidence interval. Investors interested can focus on the term arbitrage opportunity of shorting silver TD and longing silver futures [4][23]. - From a statistical perspective, investors interested can focus on the cross - variety arbitrage opportunities of longing London platinum and shorting London silver, longing London gold and shorting London silver, and longing London palladium and shorting London silver. Also, considering the Shanghai gold - silver ratio has reached a historical low and is far below the 95% confidence interval, investors can focus on the cross - variety arbitrage opportunity of longing Shanghai gold and shorting Shanghai silver [4][29][30]. 3. Summary by Relevant Catalogs 3.1 Precious Metal Inter - term Arbitrage - Inter - term arbitrage involves simultaneously going long on a certain month's contract of a futures variety and going short on a different month's contract of the same futures variety. Positive inter - term arbitrage may obtain risk - free returns through warehouse receipt delivery, and enterprises with long - term inventory can reduce inventory costs through reverse inter - term arbitrage. However, reverse inter - term arbitrage without a spot basis and all inter - term arbitrage based purely on statistical analysis are risky [6]. - The main factors affecting the positive inter - term arbitrage cost of gold are the capital cost, which fluctuates with the gold price and market interest rate. For silver, the main factor is also the capital cost, and the trading fee also accounts for a certain proportion. Similar situations apply to platinum and palladium [8][9][11]. - Currently, there are no risk - free inter - term arbitrage opportunities for domestic gold, silver, and platinum futures, but there is a positive term arbitrage opportunity for palladium [4][12]. - For gold and silver, the far - near ratios are used for statistical analysis. Currently, there are no statistically significant term arbitrage opportunities for gold, while for silver, investors can focus on the strategy of shorting near - month contracts and longing far - month contracts [13][16]. 3.2 Precious Metal Spot - Futures Arbitrage - Both positive and negative spot - futures arbitrage can be carried out for gold and silver. For platinum and palladium, only positive spot - futures arbitrage can be considered due to the inability to short - sell in the spot market [18][20]. - The main factor affecting the positive spot - futures arbitrage cost of precious metals is the capital cost, while for negative spot - futures arbitrage, in addition to the capital cost, the deferred compensation fee also has a significant impact [18][19][21]. - Currently, there are no risk - free spot - futures arbitrage opportunities for domestic gold, silver, platinum, and palladium futures. Investors can focus on the term arbitrage opportunity of shorting silver TD and longing silver futures [4][23]. 3.3 Precious Metal Cross - variety Arbitrage - The fundamental basis of cross - variety arbitrage is the inter - connection between different precious metal varieties in supply or demand, which makes the price spreads/ratios fluctuate within a certain range, providing arbitrage opportunities [24]. - For London precious metals, currently, the gold - silver ratio is below the 90% confidence interval but within the 95% confidence interval, and investors can focus on cross - variety arbitrage opportunities such as longing platinum, gold, or palladium and shorting silver. For Shanghai precious metals, the gold - silver ratio has reached a historical low and is far below the 95% confidence interval, so investors can focus on the cross - variety arbitrage opportunity of longing Shanghai gold and shorting Shanghai silver [29][30].