Questions tagged [optimal-hedge-ratio]
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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 ...
