What problem is forward pricing specifically designed to prevent, compared with historic pricing?
Forward pricing executes at the next valuation point computed after the order is received — a price not yet known when dealing — which prevents investors exploiting a stale, already-known historic price.
Missing that the point of forward pricing is to stop dealing at a known stale price.
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