A Logical Approach to Actuarial Mathematics 14 potx

... have a contingency plan as part of your risk scenario. At the same time as you place your spread order, you should also place a buy-stop, market order for a covering option that is activated ... 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 have strike pri...

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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 ... traded are call calendars, but there is no reason not to trade put calendars. The profit/loss characteristics are practically identical, except in the OEX and other American styled contrac...

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... Institute of Finance. Thorough and readable An Introduction to the Global Financial Markets (2010) by Stephen Valdez, and Philip Molyneux, Palgrave Macmillan. A first-rate intro to this business. ... background Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance (2007) by Paul Wilmott, John Wiley & Sons. Heavy on the maths, but readable. Wilmott is a super-quant. Technical Analysis...

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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 ... more than a short-term hedge. Time decay, however, is not linear. Figure 3.1 illustrates that an option loses its value at an accelerating rate as it approaches expiration. Anoth...

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... corresponds to low return. The advantage of options spreads is that each investor can take the amount of risk that he is able to justify and manage. This part outlines the major strategies that spread ... underlying, we need to be able to assess its own rate of change. Gamma quantifies the rate of change of the delta with respect to a change in the underlying. To understand...

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... have net negative vega, negative gamma and positive theta. These spreads are best opened when the market has been active, and when absolute move- ment has started to decrease. The same spread ... 10.2 Expiration profit/loss relating to Table 10.3 Many investors create spreads that combine components of the standard spreads to suit a particular outlook and strategy 114 Part...

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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 ... Negative call skews in stock indexes indicate that as their markets move steadily higher and the value of their indexes increases, an equiva- lent price change calculates to a lower his...

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... time to time, it’s an almost risk-free way to make money. So if you learn about the arb, then you’re prepared to take advantage of it when you see it. Read Part 4 at least once. Think about ... 236 Part 4  Basic non-essentials Conversion and reversals on individual stocks and on other stock indexes The conversion and reversal markets on stocks operate in basically the same manner...

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... 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 profits or ... 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....

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... wearing a 400 A LAYERED APPROACH TO NLP-BASED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Sharon Flank SRA International 4300 Fair Lakes Court Fairfax, VA 22033, USA flanks~sra.com Abstract A layered approach ... corresponds to a location, a location expansion pro- cess is invoked that, accessing a gazetteer, displays the location and related locations, such as Arlington, Virginia...

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