A Logical Approach to Actuarial Mathematics 10 docx

... there is a small amount of profit to be made by trading the components of a conversion separately. For example, a trader might be able to sell the above call at 34.50, thereby making 0 .10 profit ... disorientation. What a futures contract is A futures contract is simply an agreement to trade a commodity, stock, bond or currency at a specified price at a specified f...

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... expiry for a sale of this call with the FTSE in a range of 5000 to 6000 at intervals of 100 . 4 March soybeans are currently trading at 573.75 and the March 575 calls are trading at 22.75. (a) If ... what options are really about. Volatility data is also available from data vendors and exchanges. O Trade options with a durational outlook; when the duration has ended, take your...

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... decline. Just as you may have purchased a call to cap- ture an upside move, you now may purchase a put to capture a downside move. (Your advantage, as an alternative to taking a short position ... until XYZ reaches 104 . At 104 the call is paid for by the right to buy pay 100 for XYZ. Above 104 the profit from the call equals the amount gained by XYZ. Between 100 and 1...

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... contract can be affected by changes in volatility, and for that you need to research the past historical and implied volatility ranges. Most data vendors, the exchanges and many websites have ... vegas affected the options prices, consult the CBOE. 6  Gamma and theta 57 Gamma and volatility trading The gamma calculation is particularly useful to those who trade volatility, i.e....

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... 0 .10 1 .10 1 .10 1 .10 *Short call spread Neutral to bearish strategy Suppose you are neutral to bearish on the S&P 500. With 45 days till expiration, June time decay is beginning to accelerate. ... equidistant from each other. The equidistance 4 may vary, however, from adjacent to any number of non-adjacent strikes. For example, if XYZ is at 100 , a call ladder may h...

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... easier to live with. The following spreads all have more manage- able risk. Again, all these spreads can be traded in one transaction on most exchanges. Their bid–ask market should be marginally ... you can take the same approaches to volatile or stationary markets, but you can quantify and limit your risks. Your poten- tial returns may not be as great, but you can sleep more soundly,...

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... purchase of a put. The long calendar spread or long time spread Calendar spreads in particular can be complicated, and their return poten- tials can in many cases be duplicated by other stationary ... is at 100 , and you expect it to rally into a range of between 105 and 115, then you can buy the 100 – 110 120 call but- terfly. This spread costs more than the adjacent strike, 105...

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... the market retraces and stabilises, and time decay begins to eat away at the puts, but by then the put sellers are only too glad to close their positions at a break-even level. Another reason ... historical data that large price changes in many underlyings occur with greater frequency than are accounted for by normal distribution. At least once in a generation an asteroid hits th...

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... value changes through a 1 per cent change in the implied volatility. Vertical spread A call or put spread. Volatility A one-day, one standard deviation move, annualised. Volatility, historical ... Institute of Finance. Thorough and readable An Introduction to the Global Financial Markets (2 010) by Stephen Valdez, and Philip Molyneux, Palgrave Macmillan. A first-rate intro to...

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