Questions tagged [trading]
Attempting to profit from short-term fluctuations in a security's price as opposed to investing in the security for use or income.
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What does proprietary trading for derivatives mean?
I understand traditional asset management is buying/selling stocks with clients' money to generate alpha, and proprietary trading is using the company's own money instead.
For derivatives, do ...
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How can I model the way that average Joe trades in FX markets?
I want to develop a trading bot that trades like a non-professional trader in FX markets.
I wonder if it is possible to think that an average trader trades randomly regardless of the market conditions?...
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How much shall we bet on head/tail with $1m bankroll?
I was asked this question in a trading interview:
how much would you bet in a game where you win 300 on tail and loses your 100 on heads? how much will you bet if you can play game once or multiple ...
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Are all companies that are part of an exchange required to trade on all trading days?
For example, if today is a trading day for NYSE or NASDAQ, does that mean that all companies which are part of these exchanges must allow stocks to be exchanged on that day? Can companies choose to ...
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Realized and Unrealized Profit and Loss [closed]
https://www.tradingtechnologies.com/xtrader-help/fix-adapter-reference/pl-calculation-algorithm/understanding-pl-calculations/
What I want to know is, after Scenario 4 in this article how does the ...
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Market makers order execution on the order book
If a market maker is required to always have at least one order on a certain side of the order book (buy or sell), if there's no one else in the market and just market makers left on the book, will ...
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Finding the selling price of FTR (energy trading) [closed]
I have been reading the forum here for a while but this is my first question. I am trying to figure out (for an assignment) the price some FTRs (Financial Transmission Rights) were sold. Here is an ...
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how to I get the statistical significance of a backtested result
If I have a simple long/short value strategy (say long stocks with high e/p and short stocks low e/p or any other parameter) rebalanced monthly, and a look back window of say 15 years. How do I ...
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How is market buy order executed when meeting both market sell order and limit sell order?
Currently, we all know how market buy order is executed when meeting only limit sell order for time-priority rule.
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How to use neural network for technical analysis?
I am working on building a Neural network for technical analysis of stocks. The input I have is the open price and two (so far) technical indicators : RSI and William's R - for the past 2 years. I can ...
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How to get know when CUSIP is changed
CUSIP code is not a constant, it could be changed. Does anybody know how to detect a CUSIP change? Is there any report with this info? Where can i find it? Thank you.
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Extreme AUDJPY FX vols
I'm seeing levels of -12% of market strangle vol at 25 delta for AUDJPY at 20Y onward that is causing havoc with my pricing routines, the 10 delta market strangle is trading around -6% which is again ...
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Correlation between the perfect market-timing strategy and the market itself?
What would be the correlation between a perfect market-timing strategy [that it always goes long (short) one unit of the market the day before the market goes up (down)] and the market itself, given ...
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How can I use both Stochastic and RSI in technical analysis?
Stochastic and RSI both are momentum indicator but they both show momentum in different way. It leading me to confusion how to use them in trading.
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Complex Event Processing Engine for traders
I have created my quant model in python and now look for a way to run it on market data. I read that CEP - complex event processing engines - are the way how to approach this problem.
I am looking ...
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What is the difference between volatility and dispersion in finance?
I am confuse whether the volatility and dispersion is same or not because are use
to measure the risk associated with asset. Even if they are different than what is the relationship between, if exist.
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How to calculate R for strategies with dynamic exit points
Calculating risk-reward ratio R is easy when trading a straight forward strategy which has its entry and exit points clear:
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What is the point of volatility curve fitting?
What is the point of fitting curves to the implied smile in the market? (Other than pricing exotics where the hedging instruments are vanillas). How does fitting a vol curve help you trade/market make ...
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Calculating % Return in Pairs Trading Strategy
Hi guys Could you help me here?
I would like to calculate the return of a Pairs Trading strategy. For example:
18/11 - Open the Trade: I will go long on A and Short on B:
Stock A : $ 32.24
Stock B ...
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Effective gamma/vega hedging
I want an options position where I can short some options to pocket the premiums and benefit from the time decay. I also want to be vega and gamma neutral.
Is there an established way to find which ...
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Live trading strategies developed on daily data
This is a very simple perhaps naive question. Let's say I have a stock price prediction model trained on daily closing prices of that stock. So when I use this model for live trading, I'll have ...
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Risk reversal basics and trading strategies
It it written in the book by Giles Jewitt:
"If a currency pair had a completely flat volatility smile, the risk reversal strikes would be positioned approximately symmetrically around the ATM strike ...
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EMA with different resolutions
I am trying to understand something:
If I calculate an EMA over 5 days, using the hourly close, I have to go over 5 * 24 points.
If I calculate an EMA over 5 days, using the minutes close, I have to ...
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Selling an option before maturity
There is one problem that bothers me:
Let’s say I buy a European put option with a certain maturity date with premium \$1.6 Suppose that the market price of the put option rises before maturity (\$3) ...
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Definition of „getting picked off“ [closed]
Is there a precise definition of what getting picked off means. In particular I want to check whether I have been picked off. How can I measure this quantitatively?
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What are popular metrics for Option Skew?
What are popular metrics to track skew? Would it be the difference between OTM option and ATM option IV? Would it be a percentage difference in IV?
Also, if both are valid, would a % change be ...
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Options Market Making Used Implied Volatility Surface
Suppose you are a market maker with a model that is producing an implied volatility surface for you. Suppose you quote bid/ask prices (vols) around the prices given by your implied vol surface. In ...
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R squared of a good Trading strategy
What would you consider a decent R square value of a good trading strategy.
I know R squared is not a good metric for judging trading strategies but still at an initial stage how do you decide to ...
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How does liquidity affect trading costs?
I am aware that the liquidity of a stock directly affects the trading costs associated with it. I am however unsure about the direction of this effect, since I hypothesize two counteracting forces:
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SPX options strike bracket
By what rule does the CBOE determine the available strikes for puts and calls on the SPX? The contract specification (http://www.cboe.com/products/stock-index-options-spx-rut-msci-ftse/s-p-500-index-...
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Parameters used by brokers when executing large institutional orders?
When an institutional trader wants to enter or exit a large position, the broker has to process the trade in smaller chunks to keep market impact at a minimum. So the broker would say that they can ...
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How do I calculate option payoff before its expiration date? [closed]
How do I calculate option payoff before its expiration date? For example, if I long a 6 month call with K = 11100, T = 0.5, p = 150, what would be the payoff of the option if I exercise it in 3 months ...
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Option quotes or trades: Which one is more informative?
Suppose I have quote data as well as real transaction of option contracts? I was wondering if the informational content is the same. On the first hand, quotes show the intention of seller/buyers on ...
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Exotic Trading Basic Questions - Banking
I just joined a support team for an equity exotic trading desk in a bank, I am looking for a high level overview of how exotic trading works in a bank.
For my questions let's take a common product: ...
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Trading Vol with options
One can trade vol swap to get exposure of the volatility of the underlying security in a 'clean' way. On the other hand, we know that vol swap, theoretically can be replicated by a dynamic position of ...
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Swaption pricing and strategies
I am looking for resources (books, papers, websites, etc.) that deal with Vanilla and Exotic swaptions from a more advanced and quantitative perspective. I am interested in both the pricing side (e.g. ...
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FX Forward last day first day premium
How exactly do you trade the turn of the year/quarter effect (also known as last day-first day effect). How do you track this data, is it directly quoted in the market or is it interpolated?
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How are open and close price of mini snp futures determined
I'd like to know how are open and close prices of the mini snp futures contracts determined. For some reason I cannot find an answer to this basic question on the cme website.
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Does adverse-selection have a time-frame associated with it?
When my limit order gets filled, the price almost always moves against me due to adverse-selection. However, given 'enough' time the price may yet move back in my favour.
Has there been any study ...
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Relationship between tick size, tick value, and contract size?
For many options and futures I can see that
Contract Size = Tick Value / Tick Size
Are these values always related like this, and if so what does the relationship mean?
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How do market makers manage to sell a large number of shares at the end of a trading day without a significant reduction in their price?
The trading day of May 9, 2019 was remarkable in this respect.
I have attached the Microsoft screenshot as an example, but I observed the same in many other securities.
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IPO Valuation: Share Pricing and Number of Shares
Does the number of shares matter for a company to go public?
Suppose a company ABC went public and the initial valuation of the company shares to be sold stands at \$5000. Now, it can sell 1000 ...
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CFD broler spread as indicator for stock market
Retail trader on stock market has very limited ability to accomodate huge amount of information, it leds me to idea of using behavioir of more informed players - CFD brokers - spread of their CFD ...
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Inherent volatility of selling longterm options and buying short term options
A two-month option has an implied vol of 60%, the corresponding 2-year option has an implied vol of 34%. You buy the short terms and sell the long terms. What is the inherent volatility of the total ...
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How do you interpret Level 1 data to a list of transactions/trades?
If you have L1 data of a given security, what is the best practice to interpret it to a list of transaction/trades? Or, can we actually do so?
Just FYI, it's not a project for school but a problem I ...
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How equity dilution could be profitable for short sellers?
I am trying to understand the concept of dilution.
According to https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dilution.asp, dilution is
Dilution is a result of a reduction in the ownership percentage of ...
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How to calculate the daily rate of return for an actively traded account
I have a spot currency exchange account where the base currency is USD and where I can deposit and/or withdraw money from the account in any currency at any point in time. I can also exchange any ...
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What is a counterparty risk trading desk
Can someone explains what does the above mentioned desk do?
What are their responsibilities and how do they manage them, where do they fit into the rest of the organization?
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Is it Possible to replicate SPAN?
I currently trade intraday Options on the nearest term expiry and futures. Both E-mini S&P. I am trying to replicate the SPAN margin calculation for the entire portfolio of options and futures. So ...
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Rebalancing order on trading pairs
I'm working on a program to rebalance my portfolio among a set of crypto assets. Though I'm a bit confused on how to best order the buys in sells among the various pairs.
Consider the following ...
