Author: Michael Lee Hemler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
We examine market efficiency before and after the 1987 Market Crash using the box spread strategy implemented with European-style Samp;P~500 Index (SPX) options. Before the Crash, apparent arbitrage opportunities were rare and simulated trades were unprofitable assuming a one-minute execution delay. After the Crash, apparent arbitrage opportunities were frequent and simulated trades were profitable even assuming a five-minute execution delay. Our analysis makes the routine assumption that quotes are good until updated to construct a time series of prevailing quotes sampled at 30-second intervals. If this assumption is valid, then arbitrage profits were actually available. If this assumption is invalid, then such profits could have been illusory. Either scenario, however, implies that SPX market efficiency decreased following the Crash--prevailing price quotes repeatedly failed to satisfy the fundamental parity relation underlying the box spread.
Box Spread Arbitrage Profits Following the 1987 Market Crash
Author: Michael Lee Hemler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
We examine market efficiency before and after the 1987 Market Crash using the box spread strategy implemented with European-style Samp;P~500 Index (SPX) options. Before the Crash, apparent arbitrage opportunities were rare and simulated trades were unprofitable assuming a one-minute execution delay. After the Crash, apparent arbitrage opportunities were frequent and simulated trades were profitable even assuming a five-minute execution delay. Our analysis makes the routine assumption that quotes are good until updated to construct a time series of prevailing quotes sampled at 30-second intervals. If this assumption is valid, then arbitrage profits were actually available. If this assumption is invalid, then such profits could have been illusory. Either scenario, however, implies that SPX market efficiency decreased following the Crash--prevailing price quotes repeatedly failed to satisfy the fundamental parity relation underlying the box spread.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
We examine market efficiency before and after the 1987 Market Crash using the box spread strategy implemented with European-style Samp;P~500 Index (SPX) options. Before the Crash, apparent arbitrage opportunities were rare and simulated trades were unprofitable assuming a one-minute execution delay. After the Crash, apparent arbitrage opportunities were frequent and simulated trades were profitable even assuming a five-minute execution delay. Our analysis makes the routine assumption that quotes are good until updated to construct a time series of prevailing quotes sampled at 30-second intervals. If this assumption is valid, then arbitrage profits were actually available. If this assumption is invalid, then such profits could have been illusory. Either scenario, however, implies that SPX market efficiency decreased following the Crash--prevailing price quotes repeatedly failed to satisfy the fundamental parity relation underlying the box spread.
Box Spread Arbitrage Profits and the 1987 Market Crash
Author: Michael Lee Hemler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
We examine the riskless box spread trading strategy before and after the 1987 Market Crash using intraday data for Samp;P 500 Index (SPX) options. We find that the Crash had a significant impact on trading profitability. Before the Crash, apparently profitable trading opportunities were rare and simulated trades based on such opportunities were unprofitable. For approximately three weeks after the Crash, however, apparently profitable trading opportunities occurred frequently and the corresponding simulated trades produced arbitrage profits. These post-Crash profits accompanied an increased bid-ask spread and a decreased number of trades and price quotes, suggesting increased uncertainty on the part of traders regarding the value of the Samp;P 500 Index. Nonetheless, traders apparently stood by their quotes--in the post-Crash period, all trades occurred within the bid-ask spread and the number of contracts per trade did not drop substantially from its pre-Crash level.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
We examine the riskless box spread trading strategy before and after the 1987 Market Crash using intraday data for Samp;P 500 Index (SPX) options. We find that the Crash had a significant impact on trading profitability. Before the Crash, apparently profitable trading opportunities were rare and simulated trades based on such opportunities were unprofitable. For approximately three weeks after the Crash, however, apparently profitable trading opportunities occurred frequently and the corresponding simulated trades produced arbitrage profits. These post-Crash profits accompanied an increased bid-ask spread and a decreased number of trades and price quotes, suggesting increased uncertainty on the part of traders regarding the value of the Samp;P 500 Index. Nonetheless, traders apparently stood by their quotes--in the post-Crash period, all trades occurred within the bid-ask spread and the number of contracts per trade did not drop substantially from its pre-Crash level.
Derivatives
Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities
Author: Geoffrey Poitras
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 9780125588225
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Presenting an integrated explanation of speculative trading and risk management from the practitioner's point of view, "Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities" is a standard text on financial risk management that departs from the perspective of an agent whose main concerns are pricing and hedging derivatives.
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 9780125588225
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Presenting an integrated explanation of speculative trading and risk management from the practitioner's point of view, "Risk Management, Speculation, and Derivative Securities" is a standard text on financial risk management that departs from the perspective of an agent whose main concerns are pricing and hedging derivatives.
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Vol. 32
The Dictionary of Derivatives
Author: Andrew Inglis-Taylor
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349135860
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The derivatives market has been the fastest growing area of financial activity in the past few years. The pace of product development is fast, with a myriad of new hybrids being developed every year. This best-selling text is ordered in dictionary format, taking each financial instrument, market or related concept and giving an analysis together with diagrams where applicable. It also includes a comprehensive listing of contracts available on the major exchanges. Crucially, tax and accounting guidelines are included, and all appropriate legal documentation, such as the ISDA master agreement on swaps is reproduced in full.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349135860
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The derivatives market has been the fastest growing area of financial activity in the past few years. The pace of product development is fast, with a myriad of new hybrids being developed every year. This best-selling text is ordered in dictionary format, taking each financial instrument, market or related concept and giving an analysis together with diagrams where applicable. It also includes a comprehensive listing of contracts available on the major exchanges. Crucially, tax and accounting guidelines are included, and all appropriate legal documentation, such as the ISDA master agreement on swaps is reproduced in full.
An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management
Author: Don M. Chance
Publisher: Thomson South-Western
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
This book provides detailed but flexible coverage of options, futures, forwards, swaps, and risk management - as well as a solid introduction to pricing, trading, and strategy - allows instructors to selectively tailor inclusion of topics/chapters to fit the length of the course.
Publisher: Thomson South-Western
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
This book provides detailed but flexible coverage of options, futures, forwards, swaps, and risk management - as well as a solid introduction to pricing, trading, and strategy - allows instructors to selectively tailor inclusion of topics/chapters to fit the length of the course.
The Journal of Derivatives
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Derivative securities
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Derivative securities
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Journal of Business Economics
The Handbook of International Financial Terms
Author: Peter Moles
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191591181
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
This Handbook aims to be the most comprehensive and up to date reference book available to those who are involved or could be involved in the world of finance. The financial world has a capacity for ingenious innovation and this extends to the often bewildering array and use of terms. Here you can find out what a Circus, a Firewall, an Amazon Bond, a Clean Float, a Cocktail Swap, a Butterfly, a Streaker, a Straddle and a Strangle are. As well as defining terms, the book also shows how they are used differently in different markets and countries. It also has numerous examples showing clearly the use of particular calculations and instruments; and provides details of major markets, acronyms and currencies. Reflecting the development of global financial markets this Handbook will have broad appeal around the world. It will be a reliable guide for practitioners, and those in the related professions of accounting, law and management. At the same time it will be an invaluable companion for advanced students of finance, accounting and business.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191591181
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
This Handbook aims to be the most comprehensive and up to date reference book available to those who are involved or could be involved in the world of finance. The financial world has a capacity for ingenious innovation and this extends to the often bewildering array and use of terms. Here you can find out what a Circus, a Firewall, an Amazon Bond, a Clean Float, a Cocktail Swap, a Butterfly, a Streaker, a Straddle and a Strangle are. As well as defining terms, the book also shows how they are used differently in different markets and countries. It also has numerous examples showing clearly the use of particular calculations and instruments; and provides details of major markets, acronyms and currencies. Reflecting the development of global financial markets this Handbook will have broad appeal around the world. It will be a reliable guide for practitioners, and those in the related professions of accounting, law and management. At the same time it will be an invaluable companion for advanced students of finance, accounting and business.