Questions tagged [optimal-hedge-ratio]
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Have more complex MVA-style models become obsolete?
Just reading a book about about portfolio optimisation. You hear left and right that MVA (Mean Variance Analysis of Markowitz) is out of date, creates suboptimal portfolios in practice and so on ...
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Simple beta hedging questions
This might sound really naive but I am really confused by this beta hedging idea.
So it seems the standard way to do it is to run a simple OLS on returns (say asset A and B only 2 assets in the ...
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Optimal Hedging Ratio using Copula Models
Let $r_{s, t}$ and $r_{f, t}$ be the return rates of the spot and futures of a commodity at time $t$. The hedging ratio based on variance minimization is calculated by finding the minimum of the ...
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Pairs trading using dynamic hedge ratio - how to tell if stationarity of spread is due to genuine cointegration or shifting of hedge ratio?
I'm very new to pairs trading, and am trying it out on a few dozen pairs.
It seems very natural to me to use a dynamic hedge ratio, as it seems likely that the ratio will move over time.
To accomplish ...
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Hedge 3 securities against 3 other securities
I have a portfolio of 6 securities, 3 long 3 short. I need to hedge them against each other so directional exposure = 0. How would I decide how to weight each security?
Is there a model to do this?
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Pairs trading/Cointegration confusion
I've been trying to wrap my head around cointegration. Currently I use the log returns of both stocks A and B, calculate the spread given by:
$S = log(A) - n*log(B)$ where $n$ is the Hedge Ratio ...
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Cross hedge: Which commodity to hedge when you have to hedge the jet fuel price but you have option between two commodities
If we have an option between two commodities to hedge jet fuel and the commodities have results as follows: minimum variance hedge ratio: 1.07 for commodity 1 and 2.53 for commodity 2
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Constructing a Beta Neutral Hedge in a Pairs Strategy
Looking for resources / explanation.
Creating a dollar neutral hedge is easy - stockprice-a/stockprice-b
How do I create a beta neutral hedge?
I find discussions but no explicit derivation ...
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Minimum variance hedge ratio price difference vs. log-returns
So from my understanding Hull (2012) f.e. shows that the optimal hedge ratio minimizes the variance of the returns. But what happens to the variance of the prices? Is the Minimum variance hedge ...
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Minimum Variance Hedge Ratio and Risk Capital Relation
So I understand that the minimum variance hedge ratio minimizes the second moment of the portfolios. My question is how is it related to the size of the risk capital (which is calculated as the Value ...
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Hedge ratio with future contract [closed]
I want to buy some stocks and short future contract instead. I wonder whether I can calculate the hedge ratio?
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Hedge Ratio Calculation
My question is if I have a spot position of a commodity e.g Naturals Gas I want to hedge, how would I determine, which futures e.g. quarterly, yearly I should pick. Should I just take the one it is ...
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Bond Hedging: PCA and regression based hedge ratios
This is my first question and I would very much appreciate any help.
For a project I am trying to compare different hedging techniques for hedging a long portfolio of bonds.
I have a history of ...
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Rolling Hedge Performance
So I have Time Series data for Gas Spot and Futures Prices (first 6 front quarters and first 3 front years) from 2009-2019 and I want to evaluate the performance of a 3- year static hedge vs. 3- year ...
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Measuring Hedge Effectiveness
So I was trying to estimate the performance of a static hedge vs dynamic hedge in the electricity market and I came up with some weird findings. When I used the minimum variance hedge approach using ...
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Translating Order books accounting for fees
I am trying to understand how fee structure plays into how I should best execute a trade.
Say there are two exchanges with the following order book:
Exchange A:
Bid Qty | Bid Price | Ask Price | ...
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single period security market with two assets
Consider a single period security market with two assets. Assume the current prices
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There are two states at time one and the payoff matrix is
1.Suppose the investor believes that each state has ...
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Calculate the conditional variance-covariance matrix to optimal hedge ratio bekk [duplicate]
I estimated an MGARCH-BEKK model (using the R package BEKK, i.e. Baba, Engle, Kraft and Kroner; see Engle and Kroner (1995)) on time series of spot and futures ...
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Units of measurement for Minimum Variance Hedge Ratio
The minimum variance hedge ratio is given by $h=p*\frac{\sigma_S}{\sigma_F}$.
I was wondering if you wanted to calculate the S.D yourself and the spot prices were in Dollars per barrel while futures ...
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Hedge ratio: hedging a portfolio of global equities with futures
A bank decides to use $100 million of its capital to launch an investment strategy (seed money). The portfolio which is launched is made of global equities (say ~ 500 equities of different markets).
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Pair trading: Hege ratio by price ratio or by regression on the stocks
So I feel things like this question do exist on the site however I failed to form a conclusion based on what was written, so I decided to formulate my query as exactly as possible and hopefully anyone ...
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How to tail a hedge? (Question 3.26 from Hull, edition 10)
I am new to finance so I apologize if my question is really basic (which it probably is). If this is not the right "stackexchange" group for this, kindly refer me to the right one.
Let's say you own ...
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Two questions regarding cross-hedge
A company has to hold an underlying asset for one year and it is looking to use Brent Crude futures to hedge against changes in the underlying asset's price.
Assuming there is no liquidity concerns ...
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hedging correlated instruments
If two instruments have a significant negative correlation but the percent change in the price of the instrument moving in positive direction is always more by a fraction than the one moving in ...
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Calculating the Hedge Ratio
Suppose we have an index whose value is calculated by a weighted geometric mean. Now we want to recreate the index using its underlying components. How would we go about calculating the hedge ratios ...
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How can I use PCA to determine spread ratios for multiple legs?
I would like to generalize Paul Teetor's A Better Hedge Ratio, which uses prcomp() to determine a ratio between two legs. I am hoping to extend this to multiple legs, but am having trouble finding ...
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