Equity Correlation Trading Silverio Foresi and Adrien Vesval Goldman Sachs NYU‚ April 2006 Outline • • • Equity Correlation: Definitions‚ Products and Trade Structures Rationale: Evidence and Models Opportunities: an Historical Perspective Correlation Products Building Blocks: Vol Products • Realized variance: RV • 1 = n ∑ T t =1 St (ln( )) S t −1 2 OTC products to trade realized variance: – Delta-hedged options (straddles) – Volatility swap – Variance swap
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(2) Are your results for the 2 trading sessions similar? (3) If yes‚ provide analysis on why they are similar; If not‚ provide a discussion about why they are different. (4) What are the risks associated with a VWAP strategy? Gameable Opportunity cost Market impact cost (5) Can you recommend how you could improve your execution quality in future if you were to run a similar session again. BTA MQG VOLUME TRADED P OF TRADING P OF TRADING 10-11 6‚266
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are the principals of Arundel Partners planning to make money by buying rights to sequels? Essentially‚ a sequel right is similar to a call option. If a movie turn out to be a hit and the sequel could be profitable‚ Arundel would exercise the sequel right by producing the film itself or selling the right to another investors. If the sequel might cause a loss‚ Arundel could simply give up the right. The sequel right gives Arundel the opportunity to break-even costs of production with a successful
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1. INTRODUCTION In 1992‚ Arundel Partners was looking into the idea of purchasing the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major movie studios. Movie rights were to be purchased prior to films being made. Arundel wanted to determine if this innovative business strategy is viable by estimating the value of the sequel rights. 2. OBJECTIVE Our report aims to investigate the viability of the implementation of Arundel’s strategy in purchasing sequel rights to produce
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In Partial Fulfillment in the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Major in Entrepreneurial Management [pic] 3R TRADING This company is a single proprietorship that own by Jhoanna Marcelle C. Oco. It engages in buying scrap materials‚ especially tetra packs‚ candy wrappers‚ biscuits wrappers‚ any kind of plastics‚ and old cloth that is not used or cannot be used anymore‚ to make a new product and be used by our fellow citizens. Our product
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INTERNET TRADING / ONLINE TRADING 1 What is online trading in securities? Online trading in securities refers to the facility of investor being able to place his own orders using the internet trading platform offered by the trading member viz.‚ the broker. The orders so placed by the investor using internet would be routed through the trading member. 2 How can one start trading online? To start with‚ investor needs to identify a trading member who offers internet trading facility and register
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with foreign countries with foreign investments into the Singapore economy making up a huge percentage of our economy. The figures in 1999 alone for foreign investments were around $31 billion. If there were to be a decrease in these foreign investments‚ a chain of reactions would follow but before explaining these reactions‚ I would like to start off with the following equation: Ad = C + G + I + (X – M) Where C is consumption‚ G is government expenditure‚ I is investments‚ X is foreign export
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serious ramifications to China’s already poor economy. Unlike the Great Leap Forward‚ the Cultural Revolution was more of a political upheaval that did not produce any significant changes (for the better) in economic policies or the basic economic model. In fact‚ nearly all economic activities grinded to a halt during the 10 years (1966-1976) the revolution occurred. The revolution’s influence rippled throughout chinese society and seriously affected the economy. Mao’s experiment was like a dagger that
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help them design and deliver products and services efficiently. But some innovative companies are attempting to redefine the parameters of strategic partnerships as we know them‚ navigating between the risk of being exploited by an opportunistic partner and the risk of being trapped in the rigidities of vertical integration. These organizations have initiated multileveled relationships with customers and suppliers that leverage the resources and capabilities of the respective parties in an effort
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Outsourcing and the U.S. Economy Outsourcing jobs has been a topic of great debate for the past several years here in the United States. Those who are against outsourcing stated that it would have a negative effect on the U.S. economy because we would lose our competitive advantage to other countries and hundreds of Americans would lose their jobs‚ which include not only low-skilled workers but also semi-skilled and skilled workers‚ and in the end this does not leave enough jobs for the American
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