MALL !!! MALL-UBID arbitr 2 MALL – UBID arbitrage December 9‚ 1998 Long 1 share of MALL at $22.75 Short 0.7159 shares of UBID at $25.55 This position is guarantees a “riskless” profit on June 8‚ 1999 !!! MALL-UBID arbitr 3 Game Plan Dec 9 1998 Jun 8 1999 Investment Payoff Long 1 share MALL $ 22.75 $ - Short 0.7159 shares of UBID $ (25.55) $ - Short Cash Proceeds* $ 25.55 $ 25.55 Long Margin Loan (cash) $ (11.38) $ (11.77) Short Margin Collateral (cash) $
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CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT …………………………..............................................1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ………………………………………………………………..2 PAIRS TRADING: INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………..3 KEY CHARACTERISTICS………………………………………………………………….5 INSTRUMENTS USED FOR PAIRS TRADING ………………………………………...8 STRATEGY …………………………………………………………………………………10 TESTING FOR MEAN REVERSION ……………………………………………………10 PAIRS TRADING MODEL ………………………………………………………………..11 a. Screening for Pairs b. Trading Rules c. Risk Management
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management‚ bottom-up investment strategies‚ performance evaluation. Assignment Questions 1. What do you think of Numeric as a firm? How are long-short products of Numeric different from its long-only products? Ans: The long-short products involved holding a portfolio of long positions in combination with a portfolio of short positions. For the long positions‚ Numeric would buy “good” stocks‚ and for the short positions‚ it would sell short “bad” stocks. The firm could exploit its ability
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for a house that is worth $250‚000 ÷ 0.8 = $312‚500. We see that the bank factored in a haircut of $312‚500 - $250‚000 = $62‚500 to protect itself from credit risk and adverse fluctuations in property prices. We buy back the asset money over a long horizon of time by reducing our mortgage through annuity payments. 2. What do hedge funds do: (a) Hedge? (b) Speculate? (c) Arbitrage? (d) None of the above Answer: (a)‚ (b)‚ (c)
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price‚ so the arbitrageur can buy a long position in the target firm; when the firm is acquired‚ the stock price will increase and the arbitrageur will profit. The second type of merger is a stock for stock merger‚ which is the merger being studied in this case. In a stock for stock merger‚ the acquiring firm proposes to trade its own stock for the stock of the target firm. A typical position in this case is a long-short position in which the arbitrageur places a long position in the target firm and
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limited at $1.05 the group closed the position on the 22nd of May at $1.02 our realized profit was $15. The group also opened up a long position on USD/CAD of 12 contracts on 19th of May at 1.857 on 22nd of May the price increased to 1.0913 however the group did not closed the position due to technical analysis shown that there was still some spread before the short-term and long term moving average converges‚ on 29th of May the trade closed out at 1.860 and the realized profit $360CAD however‚ the group
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portfolios and swap the deletions and additions at the closing price. Upon announcement of the composite change‚ they can go long the stocks newly adopted and short sell deletions. For short sales‚ they go the securities lending market and borrow the stocks. They have to act fast since borrowing demand in the securities lending market shoots up upon announcements. This long position in additions and short position in deletions will be held until one day prior to the change date. And then unwind the
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date | August 15‚ 1985 | August 15‚ 2005 | Maturity date | August 15‚ 2015 | August 15‚ 2015 | Amount issued | 7.15 billion | 32.47 billion | Amount outstanding | 4.02 billion | 32.47 billion | Modified Duration Method In order to create a long-short portfolio that had no exposure to changes in interest rates‚ we can use modified duration hedge ratio. The following formula is the function to calculate modified duration hedge ratio. The term K is a measure of the responsiveness of the yield
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futures against synthetic futures. A synthetic in this case is a synthetic future comprising a call and a put position. Long synthetic futures means long call and short put at the same expiry price. To hedge against a long futures trade a short position in synthetics can be established‚ and vice versa. The diagrams above are payoff diagrams (TheOptionsGuide‚2013) of long stock and short future. If David buy a future contract on the S&P 500 Index‚ he payoff at the maturity date‚ T‚ is the difference
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purchasing cash-settled call spread options on Volkswagen stock. By 2008‚ Porsche held a 42.6% direct ownership in VW by hiding their intentions that they won’t take its position up to 75%. However‚ Porsche had purchased an additional 31.5% synthetic long position by using the cash-settled call spread options‚ which lead to VW’s share price dramatically increased fivefold. In the second example‚ TCI and 3G‚ attempted to obtain significant control over the American railroad company CSX by using Total
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