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FinEngg Strategies:
- Market Neutral Arbitrage.
- Capital Guarantee.
- Dynamic Delta Hedge.
- Market Neutral Arbitrage.
This strategy consists of exploiting any arbitrage opportunities within the capital markets These include:
- Futures and Cash Arbitrage
- Volatility Arbitrage using Options and Futures
Source of performance
Generating returns from cost of carry, higher implied volatility decay versus realized volatility and event driven mis-pricing opportunities.
Process
- Identifying favorable arbitrage opportunity
- Verifying expected ROI versus floor rate
- Checking Implied against realized volatility
- Simultaneous execution of trades
- Squaring off positions or waiting till expiry
- Generating optimal returns
Main sources of risks
Execution, Illiquidity, Pricing, Regulatory.
2. Capital Guarantee.
This strategy consists of a combination of a portfolio of bull spreads
with optimal risk-return ratios and a zero coupon bond.
Source of performance
Accurate pricing of options to exploit inefficiencies in volatility
pricing on underlying due to short term catalysts and a high yield
zero coupon bond.
Process
- Identifying implied volatilities of options.
- Identifying options with skewed volatilities.
- Identifying option pairs with optimal risk- return ratios.
- Allocating a part of the funds in the portfolio of bull spreads.
- Allocating the balance portion of the funds in high yielding zero
coupon bonds.
- Monitoring the mark-to-market portfolio value to take advantage of
optimal square-off opportunities.
Main sources of risks
Regulation, Illiquidity, Pricing.
- Dynamic Delta Hedge.
Index options-only hedging consists of writing ATM/OTM calls and puts and maintaining delta neutrality of the positions by hedging using options alone.
Source of performance
Capturing the premium disparity on options on account of realized volatility versus the implied volatility.
Process
- Identify index historical realized volatility
- Calculate implied volatility for ATM/OTM strike
- Write calls and puts simultaneously
- Capture the implied-realized volatility arbitrage
- Manage delta-neutrality dynamically
- Exploit implied volatility arbitrage & decay profit
Main sources of risks
Volatility, Leverage, Pricing. |
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