Calendar spreads CFA Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
Master Calendar spreads with Oncourse flashcards. These spaced repetition flashcards are designed for medical students preparing for NEET PG, USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2, MBBS exams, and other medical licensing examinations.
Calendar spreads Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: Strategies to Modify Risk and Lower Hedging Costs
Answer: - Over or under hedge based on manager view
- Buy at-the-money put options - delta of -0.5, eliminates downside and retains upside. Highest initial cost.
- Buy out-of-the-money put options - delta smaller than 0.5, less cost but does not eliminate all of the downside.
- Risk reversal or coller - removes some downside and upside but lowers cost through premium income (selling call).
- Put spread - But OTM puts and sell puts further out of the money to reduce cost
- Seagull spread - put spread combined with selling a call
Can also use exotic options to reduce cost such as knock-in, knock-out and binary or digital options (pay a fixed amount).
Flashcard 2: Calendar spread
Answer: buying longer-dated options and selling shorter-dated options with the same strike and underlying.
Theta measures how quickly an option loses value as time passes.
In principle the premium on the shorter-dated should fall faster than the premium on the longer-dated.
Thus more value is gained on the short position than is lost on the long position, and a net profit is realized.
Flashcard 3: Bear Spread
Answer: A bear put spread: buying one put and selling (writing) another put with the same expiry but at a lower strike price
A bear call spread: selling (writing) a call and buying a call with the same expiry but at a higher strike price
Flashcard 4: Delta Hedging
Answer: Delta Hedging is combining an option position with a position in the underlying asset to form a portfolio whose value does not change in reaction to changes in the underlying over short periods of time. Buy (sell) delta number of shares for each short (long) position.
- Delta is an approximation for small changes only
- Delta changes with time and with the price of the underlying
- Rounding causes imprecission
Deltacall = (Change in Call/Change in Spot)
Delta Hedges need to be constantly rebalanced
Flashcard 5: Vega and Volatility Risk
Answer: Vega = (Change in Option/Change in Vol of Underlying)
- At-the-money option has greatest Vega
- Volatility is unobservable so it is difficult to estimate Vega
- Delta is required to manage Vega risk jointly with delta & gamma
Flashcard 6: Gamma and the Risk of Delta
Answer: Gamme = (Change in Delta/Change in Spot)
- Larger the gamma, greater the risk
- Gamma is largest for at-the-money and/or near expiration
- Gamma hedge = position in underlying & position in two options
Flashcard 7: Interest Rate Cap
Answer: - Interest rate cap is a combination of interest rate calls
- Each option in a cap is a caplet
- Each caplet has same X but its own expiration date
- Cap seller makes payment if IR \< strike rate
- Payoff is determined on its expiration date but made on the next payment date
Flashcard 8: Interest Rate Collar
Answer: - A combination of a cap and a floor where the agent is long in one position and short in the other
- Attractive to a bank that has among its liabilities large deposits with floating interest rates
Flashcard 9: Gamma
Answer: Gamma = (change in Delta)/(change in Underlying)
- Measures the sensitivity of delta to a change in the underlying
- Highest when option is at the money/or near expiration
- When gammas are large, some delta hedgers choose to also gamma hedge
Flashcard 10: Lending and Interest Rate Put Options
Answer: A put establishes a minimum lending rate
Payoff = (NP)[max(0, Strike - LIBOR)](D/360)
FV(premium) = premium[1 + (current LIBOR + spread)(maturity/360)
**Net Amount = Loan + FV(premium)**
Effective Interest Earned = Lending Income + Put Payoff
EAR = [(NP + Effective Dollar Interest Earned) / Net Amount]^(365/D) - 1
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