Questions tagged [delta-hedging]
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Options Delta Meaning of Term [closed]
not able to understand delta in options. Whilst I understand, it is how much the option moves when the underlying moves by 1 unit, I fail to understand, when someone books a currency option, why does ...
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Profit and Loss on delta-hedged portfolio
The overnight profit formula from a textbook (possibly Derivative Markets by McDonald) is the following:
$$\Delta _{t}(S_{t+h}-S_{t})-(V_{t+h}-V_{t})-(e^{rh}-1)(\Delta_{t}S_{t}-V_{t}),$$
where Delta ...
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Uniqueness of the Hedging strategy
I am currently reading the book "Nonlinear Option Pricing" by Julien Guyon. In the book they defined an attainable payoff $F_T$ as a $\mathcal{F}_T$ measurable random variable for which there exists ...
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Break-even volatility for delta hedge portfolio
After simulating practical and theoretical PnL of a delta hedged portfolio on some data from the SPX500 under 0.15 management Vol I want to find the Vol which gives me an accumulated PnL of 0.
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Correct beta weighted delta options formula?
Is this the correct formula for beta weighted delta: http://www.nishatrades.com/blog/beta-weighted-delta
I've seen this What is the formula for beta weighted delta and gamma? but they seem to be ...
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replicate option by dynamic hedging
I've just started working for a company with a decent commodity exposure. They manage this by as they call it dynamically hedging it.
Basically when they start the hedging they identify a market ...
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why gamma decreases when option is deep in the money? [closed]
Gamma decreases when a call option goes either deeper in, or deeper out of the money. That is due the demand for the call option. I can imagine the demand for the option would decrease as it goes ...
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Delta hedging/Gamma PnL
Suppose I am long USDIDR straddle with my start of the day delta being USD10m long IDR and USDIDR gamma being $5m.
There is a 1% intra-day IDR strengthening, so my delta becomes roughly long IDR 15m....
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Confused by Solution to the Expected Profit when Hedging an option using Implied Volatility (from Wilmott 2006)
Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance 2nd Ed (section 12.5.1) gives a solution to the initial expected profit when hedging using delta based on implied volatility as
$$\frac{1}{2}(σ^2 - σ̃^2) \,\int_{...
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Effect of mean reverting Volatality in Black and Scholes? [closed]
Can someone please elaborate what would be the effect of a mean reverting volatility (instead of a constant volatility) in pricing options using BS ?
Also how would the greeks vary?
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How is the performance measure computed here?
The image is from John C Hull Textbook titled Options, Futures and Other Derivatives ( page 407 - Ninth Edition). The table above was obtained after computing the delta of stock price, shares ...
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Hedging with machine learning
I’ve been thinking about an interesting problem lately: Suppose I have a position in an exotic derivative. How can I automate the hedging process?
Traditionally, one build a pricing model and ...
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How is FX cross rates options are priced?
Say I have market for EUR/USD and also USD/CAD, how would EUR/CAD would be priced and hedged in practice? What are good papers/book chapters to read on that? (Assuming basic knowledge already on ...
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Expected value of delta-hedged portfolio
Consider portfolio in black-scholes world
$\Pi = \Delta S - V$, where $S$ is the stock price and V is the price of the option.
I have read that if we set $\Delta = \frac{\partial V}{\partial S} $ ...
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Option order imbalance
Currently studying the paper:
HU, Jianfeng. Does Option Trading Convey Stock Price Information?. (2014). Journal of Financial Economics. 111, (3), 625-645.
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School ...
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Can prediction of realized volatility for next day improve delta hedging (gamma scalping)?
Im quite confused. As I understand from standard delta PNL of option + underlying position, pnl is equals to difference between realized and implied vol weighted by gamma.
However, as I understood, ...
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Implied Volatility of a call plus its delta
I would like to understand if exists a smart way to imply the volatility from a quote that is the sum of a call and its delta: is there any method other than simple iterative minimization?
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Heging against stochastic interest rate
I am working on an Index and I am trying to price Call options on it. I work with the 3 Months LIBOR as Cash.
I use the following Black-Scholes formula
$$C_{t} = S_{t}e^{-q_{t}(T-t)}\mbox{N}[d_{1}(t)]...
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Why are vanilla OTC options are quoted in delta and vol?
Why do we quote options in delta bid-ask & volatility bid-ask & why not it is quoted in terms of option premium?
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duration hedging of illiquid bonds
Let's say that I have a totally illiquid 30Y bond that I want to hedge with short-dated bonds and that the market is liquid up to 10Y bonds.
After 20 years, my 30Y bond will become a 10Y bond so I'll ...
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Using BS Delta to hedge in a LV Model
Why do some people use a Black Scholes Delta instead of the delta given by the Local Volatility model?
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Delta hedge a long option using a short option [closed]
If I long a call option of 1 mio USD/SGD for example, I understand that at strike price (ATM), delta is approximately +0.5.
To approximately hedge this delta, I also understand we can short 0.5 mio ...
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How does a Delta Hedged portfolio yield the Risk-free?
Here I'm considering the simple case of a dealer writing call options on a stock and hedging the short position with a "textbook" Delta Hedge, i.e. goes long on $N_c \times Delta$ stocks (where $N_c$ ...
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Difference in exposure between delta hedged options, ATM straddles and delta hedged straddles
What is the difference in exposures between delta hedged options, ATM straddles and delta hedged straddles. They all seem to provide the same thing, which is exposure to volatility.
What are the ...
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Interpertation of delta hedge error in Black Scholes
I have spent some time to prove the delta hedge error as described in this paper paper page 16-17 by Davis. The proof is discussed here Deriving Delta Hedge error in the B-S setup (part 2) (a post by ...
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Deriving Delta Hedge error in the B-S setup (part 2)
In this paper paper page 16-19 by Davis
and this discussion
derivation of the hedging error in a black scholes setup,
the derivation of the delta hedging error in the Black Scholes model is discussed.
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Change in call price Value as time goes by
In various papers and discussions in here I have seen that in delta hedging setup people compute the Change in value/Price of Call option by:
$$
dC_t = \Theta_t dt + \Delta_t dS + \frac{1}{2} \...
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Gamma/delta dynamics in the Black Scholes model and it's relation to PnL (Basic of option theory)
If we are in a Black Scholes setup and a I have a Call option and hedged it by shorting delta amount of its underlying.
What does the second derivative of the call with respect to Price of the ...
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Bachelier model call: computation of delta of a call option
The price of a call with a stock with Bachellier process as its underlying and zero interest rate is giving by:
$$C(t)=(S(t)-K)\Phi(\frac{S(t)-K}{\sigma \sqrt{T-t}})+\sigma \sqrt{T-t} \phi(\frac{S(t)-...
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Computing Malliavin Derivative for European Call Payoff
Let $X_t$ be a continuous local-martingale modeling the stock price given by
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X_t = \int_0^t \sigma_t(T,K)dW_t
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and $\sigma_t(T,K)$ is an $L^2$-measurable process not adapted to $W_t$'s ...
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Hedging error in a stochastic volatility model
I would like to find how much error I make when I hedge a call option using Black Scholes model in a market which is actually governed by a stochastic volatility process such as
$$dS_t = rS_tdt + \...
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What really is Gamma scalping?
How does Gamma scalping really work? It seems there is no true profit scalped. If we look at the simplest scenario, Black-Scholes option price $V(t,S)$ at time $t$ and the underlying stock price at $S$...
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Floating Strike Lookback Delta Risk
I'm running through some delta hedging simulations of floating strike lookback call options (that is, I'm short the options) during a volatile (downside) period for the underlying and some very odd ...
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Can we 'predict' the delta of a stock? The delta of a stock is $\pm 1$ right? [closed]
“A stock is like a living organism. A sparrow, say. And we are able to create an emergent-based abstraction of that sparrow, which closely approximates the sparrow itself, accounting for migration ...
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Calculate latest underlying price (or option), given new option (or underlying) market price?
Given a reference underlying price, reference option price, delta and gamma, if I receive a new underlying/option price what equation should I use to calculate the respective option/underlying price (...
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Traders view on hedging of FX Futures with FX Forward
I would like to get a trades view on hedging a FX Forward with a FX Future by just moving the (1) FX_Spot rate and ignore the other risk factors (2) ccy1 DV01 risk, (3) ccy2 DV01 risk, (4) basis swap ...
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Delta hedging vs Strangle
Long volatility delta hedging and strangle are common long volatility strategies. We can make strangle delta neutral(in $) by buying more puts than calls(if an absolute value of put delta is less than ...
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Short Call Hedge. Options and gamma trading
Let’s say a trader sells a Short Call with strike 100 (for making profit with the premium) at-the-money (for highest extrinsic value there). For hedging until expiration, he buys the underlying share ...
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Tracking error Black Scholes
Suppose an asset follows the SDE
$$ d S_{t}^{1} = \mu S_{t}^{1} dt + \sigma_{t} S_{t}^{1} d W_{t} $$
Furthermore assume that $r = 0$ and a trader who uses Black-Scholes for pricing and hedging with ...
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Gamma Imbalance / Exposure
I am currently writing my thesis about the lack of volatility / changing market structure we see nowadays on the financial market. I believe an important factor in this development is the delta-...
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Delta Hedging with fixed Implied Volatility to get rid of vega?
I'm wondering if i should use a floating IV or a fixed IV to delta hedge my options every day.
I've read this post but would like different information :
Delta Hedging with fixed Implied Volatility ...
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Why don't we take the differential to the Delta in the Delta hedge-portfolio
For option $V(S,t)$ with underlying asset $S$, we have a hedge portfolio
$$\Pi = V(S,t) - \Delta(S,t)S$$
I always confuse here, when we take the differential of $\Pi$
$$d\Pi = dV -\Delta dS$$
why ...
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Dynamic Delta Hedging And a Self Financing Portfolio
Let's assume the usual Black Scholes assumptions hold. My question is related to an answer on this question. There, the weights ($\Delta_t^1$,$\Delta_t^2$) are derived which form a locally risk free ...
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Derivation of BS PDE problem using Delta hedging
I've always been confused with Delta hedging. It is well-known that for a (smooth enough) function of $(S,t)$ we have, due to Ito's lemma, that:
\begin{eqnarray*}
dC = \left(\frac{\partial C}{\partial ...
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Delta Hedging: Clarification example of the book “Hull, Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives” [closed]
By "Hull, Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives":
Suppose that, in figure,the stock price is \$100 and the option price
is \$10. Imagine an investor who has sold 20 call option
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Example of delta one products
Not sure if this is the right place to ask such question.
How close to 1 should the delta be in order for the product to be classified as delta one.
2.What examples of delta one products are there?
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delta-hedging is failing
and thank you for answering me !
While I was recently testing a delta-hedging on a few products, I got a P&L result of 20% for some of them.
First, I thought that the implementation was ...
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Delta-hedging non-volatile stock
If a stock has zero vol and some positive drift $\alpha$ (in a BS-setting) and we delta hedge a long call option dynamically over a year with some positive implied volatility.... how would that work ...
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Proof of gamma profit formula
http://www.volcube.com/resources/options-articles/gamma-hedging-trading-strategies-part-i/
I would like to have proven to me the above formula, mostly because I don't quite understand it. The formula ...
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Basic practical question about Delta hedging
I am trying to understand a simple thing about Delta hedging in the Black-Scholes world. I know I'm doing something blatantly wrong, I just can't see it now.
Let's say I write a call option and sell ...
