DERIVATIVES

The Company utilizes derivative instruments to economically hedge a portion of its exposure to interest rate risk. The Company primarily uses pay-fixed interest rate swaps and Eurodollar contracts to hedge its exposure to changes in interest rates and uses receive-fixed interest rate swaps to offset a portion of its pay-fixed interest rate swaps in order to manage its overall hedge position. The objective of the Company's risk management strategy is to mitigate declines in book value resulting from fluctuations in the fair value of the Company's assets from changing interest rates and to protect some portion of the Company's earnings from rising interest rates. Please refer to Note 1 for information related to the Company's accounting policy for its derivative instruments.

The table below summarizes information about the Company’s derivative instruments treated as trading instruments on its consolidated balance sheet as of the dates indicated:



	December 31, 2015
	Derivative Assets				Derivative Liabilities
Trading Instruments	Fair Value		Notional		Fair Value			Notional
Interest rate swaps	$	7,835	$	460,000	$	(12,108	)	$	2,920,000
Eurodollar futures ⁽¹⁾	—		—		(29,097		)	6,300,000
Total	$	7,835	$	460,000	$	(41,205	)	$	9,220,000



	December 31, 2014
	Derivative Assets				Derivative Liabilities
Trading Instruments	Fair Value		Notional		Fair Value			Notional
Interest rate swaps	$	5,727	$	440,000	$	(3,002	)	$	485,000
Eurodollar futures ⁽²⁾	—		—		(32,896		)	16,600,000
Total	$	5,727	$	440,000	$	(35,898	)	$	17,085,000


(1)	The Eurodollar futures aggregate notional amount represents the total notional of the 3-month contracts with expiration dates from 2017 to 2020. The maximum notional outstanding for any future 3-month period did not exceed $725,000 as of December 31, 2015.


(2)	The Eurodollar futures aggregate notional amount represents the total notional of the 3-month contracts with expiration dates from 2015 to 2020. The maximum notional outstanding for any future 3-month period did not exceed $1,300,000 as of December 31, 2014.

The following table summarizes the contractual maturities remaining for the Company’s outstanding interest rate swap agreements as of December 31, 2015:



Remaining Maturity	Pay-Fixed Interest Rate Swaps		Pay-Fixed Weighted-Average Rate		Receive-Fixed Interest Rate Swaps		Receive-Fixed Weighted-Average Rate
13-24 months	$	1,435,000	1.18	%	$	—	—	%
25-36 months	—		—	%	—		—	%
37-48 months	160,000		1.37	%	250,000		1.91	%
49-60 months	685,000		1.71	%	50,000		1.75	%
61-72 months	—		—	%	100,000		1.69	%
73-84 months	75,000		1.77	%	—		—	%
85-96 months	125,000		1.98	%	—		—	%
97-108 months	—		—	%	25,000		2.71	%
109-120 months	475,000		2.86	%	—		—	%

The following table summarizes the volume of activity related to derivative instruments for the period indicated:



For the year ended December 31, 2015:	Beginning of Period Notional Amount		Additions		Settlement, Termination, Expiration or Exercise			End of Period Notional Amount
Receive-fixed interest rate swaps	$	275,000	$	150,000	$	—		$	425,000
Pay-fixed interest rate swaps	650,000		3,135,000		(830,000		)	2,955,000
Eurodollar futures	16,600,000		—		(10,300,000		)	6,300,000
	$	17,525,000	$	3,285,000	$	(11,130,000	)	$	9,680,000

The table below provides detail of the Company's "loss on derivative instruments, net" by type of interest rate derivative for the periods indicated:



	Year Ended
	December 31,
Type of Derivative Instrument	2015			2014			2013
Receive-fixed interest rate swaps	$	6,522		$	4,912		$	—
Pay-fixed interest rate swaps	(28,687		)	(30,754		)	9,315
Eurodollar futures	(20,963		)	(27,551		)	(19,391		)
Loss on derivative instruments, net	$	(43,128	)	$	(53,393	)	$	(10,076	)

There is a net unrealized gain of $921 remaining in AOCI on the Company's consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2015 which represents the activity related to interest rate swap agreements while they were previously designated as cash flow hedges, and this amount will be recognized in the Company's net income as a portion of "interest expense" over the remaining contractual life of the agreements. The Company estimates a credit of $251 will be reclassified to net income as a reduction of "interest expense" within the next 12 months.

A portion of the Company's interest rate swaps were entered into under bilateral agreements which contain cross-default provisions with other agreements between the parties. In addition, these bilateral agreements contain financial and operational covenants similar to those contained in our repurchase agreements, as described in Note 4. With respect to interest rate agreements under which interest rate swaps were entered into as of December 31, 2015, the Company was in compliance with all covenants.

Please see Note 7 for the Company's disclosures related to offsetting assets and liabilities.