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You are a manager of a pension fund that specializes in smaller stocks. The market has been going up for the last 4 years and you are expecting a correction. Instead of selling the stocks, you decide to sell a Nasdaq 100 futures contract at a price of 4,560. When the contract expires, the value of the Nasdaq 100 is 4,340. Calculate the profit or loss on this transaction.

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