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Why was SSF and Futures on Stocks Banned in US Until Recently [closed]
I have heard that Futures on Stocks were not allowed in US until recently. What is the rationale behind this?
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What are the differences between CFD and SSF?
What are the intricate differences between SSF and CFD?
The similarities are that both take into account interest and settled daily thus looks more or less the same pima facie.
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Market Exposure and Hedging
Normally the Market exposure associated with your stock/portfolio is your delta for that stock/ portfolio. Basic idea of hedging involved here is buying/selling respective futures depending upon ...
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How does the CME set margin requirements on commodity Futures
I am trying to model margin requirements on various commodity futures, however it doesn't seem that the CME has released the formula they use to set these performance bonds. I am sure that they use ...
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How to measure contango?
Is there any unit of measure for the magnitude of the contango (or backwardation) for futures, so you can compare the contango of many symbols.
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Implied dividend estimation
I am looking at two different ways of estimating the expected / implied dividends from market data.
1. Dividend futures
I know that this asset class is not very liquid and might not be ...
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Yield on Fixed income futures
I am trying to get a simplified model of the DV01 for the US 10YR Note futures but I cant figure out what the current yield is. When I back out the implied interest rate on the current TYM3 futures ...
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Do futures have predictive value?
Futures closely mirror their underlying, as can be seen in the charts below. Eventually, at expiration, they reach the value of the underlying. However, they seem to show no extra information about ...
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What continous adjustment methods are firms using for futures backtesting?
There are several methods available between data vendors and associated software programs to adjust futures contract data for historical simulations.
Some of the methods are:
1) Back or forward ...
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Intangible assets as underlying for Futures contracts
How is it possible for a Futures contract to have an intangible underlying? For example, to my knowledge, there exist Futures that have interest rates as their underlying, come delivery date, how is ...
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Resources to read more about/learn how implied pricing works
I was looking at this video today:
http://www.cmegroup.com/education/interactive/webinars-archived/implied-price-functionality.html
on implied pricing. And am aware that implied orders/pricing ...
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Estimating two normal random numbers with one equation
Subtitle: Estimating the correlation of the shocks driving two commodities in
two multi-factor models
I am fitting two 2-factor models to electricity and gas futures, respectively.
In order to ...
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How to Delta Hedge with Futures?
The theory of delta hedging a short position in an option is based on trades in the stock and cash. I.e. I get the option premium and take positions in the stock and cash.
In the classical ...
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How to compute interest rate futures spread ratio?
I am confused on how to compute the spread ratio.
For example, this is example I came across with my broker -
Consider 2 contracts Bobl and Euribor.
The DV01 of Bobl i 44.8 and Euribor is 25. To ...
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Is there a general format for various sources of futures market-data?
I am developing a market-data engine that receives market-data from different futures exchanges. So I need a general format to deal with sources from different exchanges. Protocols like FIX only ...
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What is the highest frequency greek for options on futures on bonds?
I'm considering exchange traded options of futures on bonds. Options on bond futures are usually American, thus the Black model is out of question. Which is the most imporatant Greek with respect to ...
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What are VIX back-month futures based on?
The VIX calculation is a weighted average of prices for front-month out-the-money options on the S&P index.
So for VIX futures, this makes sense for the front month vix futures (being based on a ...
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What is the market standard for pricing VIX futures?
Pricing of VIX futures is complicated, because it is not possible to use a standard
hedging argument to get a value similar to stock futures.
What different approaches for pricing VIX futures exist? ...
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The difference between Close price and Settelment Price for future contracts
What is the difference between Close price and Settelment Price for future contracts?
Is there a define rule for evaluating the settlement price or each instrument/exchange different rules applied?
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How to normalize Futures data(different leverage) for cointegration test?
For example I want to construct 2 time series, one for ES and the other for NQ and test for cointegration.
ES one point equal to 50$.
NQ one point equal to 20$.
If I have the following data:
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How can one compute the Greeks on VIX Futures
I am guessing the short answer to this question is "use the chain rule and linearity of the derivative," but I am looking for more specific advice on how to compute the derivatives of a VIX futures ...
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Can one use options on Treasury futures to hedge a portfolio?
Can one use options on Treasury bond futures to hedge a typical fixed income portfolio? If so, how can one estimate the duration for an option on a Treasury futures contract, and taking this a step ...
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What is the basis risk between cash and futures government bonds?
I am currently working in a team responsible for maintaining a simple risk application for our bond desk and I am interested in knowing how to provide some sort of basic basis risk metric.
Our desk ...
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How to incorporate technical indicators into neural networks?
I plan to develop a neural network to trade commodities futures, but while messing around with some code, a question came up. If I understand correctly, people use various technical indicators with ...
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Did farmers really buy options on the CBOE? [closed]
I recently become interested in finance. Many books discuss options as simple examples of derivatives. I also read some "popular books". I read in "The Poker Face of Wall Street" that almost no ...
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Can the futures market's open interest predict commodity, treasury, and equity returns?
I came across this article and became curious. Can the futures market's open interest really predict market action?
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Price of Brent versus West Texas Intermediate
As of right now, the price of Brent Crude is $\$$111.59/bbl and the price of WTI Crude is $\$$98.36/bbl. I'm well aware that futures markets don't set the spot price for oil, but actual ...
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Need advice on finding forward spot rates
So this is a "work homework" question. As part of my job they are sending us through sort of a training course. I'm looking for advice, or a link to a site that explains how to do this with maybe some ...
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What is a good broker for HFT?
Currently I trade trough IB. I run my HFT strategies (100 roundtrips per hour) but I think that latency is killing me and my profits are shrinking. I need the fastest possible brokers out there which ...
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Where to find Greeks for futures to form delta-hedged futures portfolio of S&P 500 index/futures
I can't find S&P 500 index (SPX) futures data with Greeks to create delta-hedged portfolios. Do these data exist? I have access to most of the common data sources.
In the meantime, I am trying to ...
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Is there a standard method for getting a continuous time series from futures data?
I would like to be able to analyse futures prices as one continuous time series, so what kinds of methods exist for combining the prices for the various delivery dates into a single time series?
I am ...
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Question about future annuity [closed]
Question: I'm buying a bond that will pay me $1,000/year for 5 years starting 1 year from now. I want to make 12%/year on the investment, what should I pay for this today?
I got $3,604.77 by using ...
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How to execute a large futures order?
I am currently trading futures products on some contracts that have low volumes. More accurately, the volumes of working orders in the book are fairly light. I am trying to execute a relatively large ...
