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The document explains a historical simulation approach to estimating Value-at-Risk for an equity portfolio hedged with futures. For each observation in a chosen historical window, apply the equity return and futures return from the same past period to…
The document explains that physical electricity derivatives specify delivery over a defined period and at a stated capacity, rather than delivering a lump of energy at one instant. A capacity contract therefore corresponds to energy supplied across the hours…
The document explains that the meaning of a futures market “open” depends on the session convention. Although electronic futures trade nearly around the clock, data services may mark the daily open at the prior evening’s reopen, a period described as…
The discussion addresses a European call option expiring at time T on a forward contract that matures later, at T′. It distinguishes the option’s payoff from the value of the forward contract and presents a Black–Scholes-based pricing shortcut. The response…
The document asks how to hedge an SX5E option expiring in a month when SX5E futures are listed only at quarterly expiries. The response describes using an underlying exposure for delta hedging, analogous to hedging an equity option with its stock. It also…
The document asks why a chart of continuous 10-year Treasury futures prices against 10-year yields does not show the familiar curved price–yield relationship of an individual bond. Its explanation is that the futures contract can be settled through delivery…
The exchange describes a common fixed-income application of principal component analysis: analyzing changes in yields across maturities. The first three components are characterized approximately as level, slope, and curvature, and are said to capture most…
The document explains how bank balance-sheet costs can affect Treasury futures net basis trades. In a long basis position, the investor buys a Treasury bond, finances it through repo, and sells conversion factor weighted futures. The trade depends on actual…
The document distinguishes forward prices from futures prices by presenting textbook definitions and a practical explanation. A forward price is the delivery price that makes a forward contract’s value zero when entered. The cited definition of a futures…
The document explains how financing costs enter an equity forward price through the cost of carrying the stock until delivery. A forward can be understood by comparing its payoff with a position that holds the underlying equity and finances that purchase.…
The document addresses how to summarize commodity futures volumes by commodity and tenor, with purchases positive and sales negative. The suggested workflow first converts each trade’s volume into a signed quantity using its buy or sell direction. It then…
This note explains why Good Friday treatment in the US Government Securities business calendar can affect SOFR fixings and interest-rate derivative schedules. The calendar follows SIFMA recommendations for trading in US government securities, so whether SOFR…
The discussion considers which interest rate belongs in pricing exchange-traded futures and options, especially when inferring dividends or financing from index derivatives. Its central distinction is between the rate credited on collateral or margin and the…
The document describes a yield curve steepening or flattening position built from two year and ten year Treasury futures. The proposed steepener buys two shorter maturity contracts and sells one longer maturity contract, with the reverse position used for…
The document gathers reading suggestions for learning about commodity markets, with an emphasis on electricity. The original question seeks resources on energy products, pricing, links to quantitative strategies, and research on forecasting power prices. The…
The document explains how to construct a curve for valuing a USD interest rate swap whose floating leg references three-month LIBOR. It organizes market inputs by maturity: LIBOR spot rates at the short end, futures or forward rate agreements in the middle,…
The document explains how to interpret a Treasury bond futures quote when the delivery date, accrued interest, and specific bond to be delivered are not yet known. It says the quoted futures price is grounded in the cheapest-to-deliver principle: among…
This note distinguishes quarterly swaps on regular calendar rolls from quarterly swaps on IMM dates. For a regular quarterly schedule, fixing and accrual start dates align as closely as possible with the recurring roll date, subject to holiday adjustment.…
The document describes how standard VIX option delta is generally measured against the corresponding maturity VX futures contract rather than spot VIX. It outlines a first order hedge calculation that accounts for both the option’s delta and the difference…
The document considers how a bank could hedge a seeded portfolio of global equities when its goal is to build a performance record without taking much market risk. It asks whether to hedge each market’s equity exposure with futures or adjust the hedge for…
The note explains how to estimate a bond futures contract’s DV01 from the DV01 of its cheapest-to-deliver (CTD) bond. It gives a conversion-factor adjustment and a small repo-related adjustment: when the net basis is assumed to be zero, the futures DV01 is…
The document examines dealer profits from shorting when issued Treasury securities ahead of an auction and covering the position at the auction clearing yield. It asks why a stop through, where the auction yield is below the when issued yield, could mean a…
The discussion distinguishes the cost of trading an index portfolio from the price of a futures contract on the index. Because an index is a calculated measure rather than a directly traded asset, its forward price is generally derived from the index level,…
The document considers how to store end-of-day options data for futures when one person needs historical analysis rather than shared or real-time access. The questioner describes organizing records by underlying, expiration chain, date, strike, and call or…