BLOOMBERG Derivatives

Bloomberg Doc ( Rasheed Abad - Master of Finance) Derivatives using Bloomberg

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Version IV

Derivatives on Bloomberg

Derivative securities research on Bloomberg


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Table of Contents

1 DERIVATIVES ON BLOOMBERG.................................................................................................. 3

1.1 GENERAL INTRODUCTIONS ........................................................................................................... 3 1.2 PRACTICE OPTION WITH APPLICATIONS USING BLOOMBERG ........................................................ 6 1.3 EQUITY OPTIONS .......................................................................................................................... 6 1.4 OPTION VALUATION (OV) / NUM 12. ........................................................................................... 7 1.5 EXOTIC OPTION VALUATION (OVX) / NUM 13. ......................................................................... 10 1.6 CURRENCY OPTIONS................................................................................................................... 16 1.7 INDEX OPTIONS .......................................................................................................................... 18

2 DERIVATIVE SECURITIES RESEARCH ON BLOOMBERG.................................................. 19

2.1 DES............................................................................................................................................ 19 2.2 OPTION VALUATION ( OV )........................................................................................................ 19 2.3 CALL/PUT VALUATION ( OVE ).................................................................................................. 21 2.4 OPTION (BID/ASK) MONITOR ( OMON ) .................................................................................... 21 2.5 CALL ANALYSIS - SENSITIVITY ( COAT ) ................................................................................... 22 2.6 OPTION HORIZON ANALYSIS ( OHT ) ......................................................................................... 23 2.7 OPTIONS POSITION HORIZON ANALYSIS ( OHTX )..................................................................... 24 2.8 COVERED CALL WRITE ANALYSIS ( CWA )................................................................................. 25 2.9 OPTION SCENARIO ANALYSIS ( OSA )........................................................................................ 26


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1 DERIVATIVES ON BLOOMBERG

1.1 General Introductions

Derivatives

Consider a stylized example.

A corporation is established by ten investors. Each puts up USD 100 in equity. There is no debt. After one year, the corporation will be liquidated. At that time, if its net assets are worth USD 900, each equity investor will realize a 10% return if assets are worth USD 1100, each investor will realize a 10% return. This is summarized in Exhibit 1.

Exhibit 1

Case A Case B

Initial equity investment 1000 1000 Investment per equity investor 100 100 Initial debt investment 0 0 Investment per debt investor

Corporation's end-of-year asset value 900 1100 Cost of paying off debt investors 0 0 Residual value for equity investors 900 1100 Residual value per equity investor 90 110 Return realized by each equity investor

10% 10%

Without any debt financing, equity investors receive returns in proportion to the corporation's overall performance.

Now consider the same corporation, but financed differently. The same ten investors each put up USD 100, but only five of them hold equity. The other five hold debt. Debt holders are guaranteed to receive USD 105. At the end of the year, if the corporation's assets are worth USD 900, there will be USD 375 left over after paying debt holders. Each equity investor will realize a 25% return. If, on the other hand, the corporation's assets are worth 1100 at year end, there will be USD 575 left over after paying debt holders. Each equity investor will realize a 15% return.

Exhibit 2

Case A Case B

Initial equity investment 500 500 Investment per equity investor 100 100 Initial debt investment 500 500


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Investment per debt investor 100 100 Corporation's end-of-year asset value 900 1100 Cost of paying off debt investors 525 525 Residual value for equity investors 375 575 Residual value per equity investor 75 115 Return realized by each equity investor

25% 15%

With debt financing, equity investors receive returns out of proportion to the corporation's overall performance. The returns are "leveraged."

Consider a Call Option. It offers a leveraged alternative to taking an outright position in an underlying. Let's compare the risk-reward characteristics of an outright position vs. a call option position.

Suppose shares of XYZ are trading at USD 100 and currently pay no dividends. An investor pays USD1000 to buy 10 shares. She holds the position for three months. If, at the end of that period, XYZ is trading at USD 92, the investor will realize a 8% return. If it is trading at USD 108, the return will be 8%. See Exhibit 3.

Exhibit 3: Outright equity position

Case A Case B

Purchase price per share 100 100 Number of shares purchased 10 10 Total investment 1000 1000 Stock price after three months 92 108 Total value after three months 920 1080 Return 8% 8%

Direct investment in a company's stock offers returns directly proportional to the stock's performance.

Now suppose, instead of taking an outright position in XYZ stock, the investor purchases 3-month call options struck at the money. These are trading at USD 5, so the investor spends USD 1000 to buy 200 options. If, at the end of three months, XYZ is trading at USD 92, the options will expire worthless. The investor's return will be 100%. If the stock is trading at USD 110, her return will be 60%. See Exhibit 4.

Exhibit 4: Call Option position

Case A Case B

Purchase price per option 5 5 Number of options purchased 200 200 Total investment 1000 1000 Stock price at expiration 92 108 Option value at expiration 0 8


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Total value at expiration 0 1600 Return 100% 60%

Call options are leverage. They magnify risk and reward compared to a direct purchase of the underlying.

Today, similar opportunities for such leverage abound. Essentially all derivatives including futures, forwards, swap, vanilla options and exotics provide leveraged. They offer indirect interest in an underlying for an initial investment that is less than the value of that underlying. With some derivatives, such as forwards or swaps, no initial investment is required. Securities lending and repurchase agreements can be used to leverage a portfolio.

The widespread proliferation of derivatives is perhaps the primary motivation for modern financial risk management.

Pricing

Consider an options trader who is about to sell an option. She intends to dynamically hedge the exposure until the option expires. What price should she charge for the option? Pricing proposes, given certain simplifying assumptions, that this cost could be known in advance.

Pricing Strategies

When you purchase an option, you pay a premium whereas you receive a premium when you sell an option. Your net P&L will be the difference between and intrinsic value realized from exercising the option and the option premium you pay or receive. A well organized portfolio consisting of different options can cancel out these factors. As a result, we can get a portfolio with zero risk.

Consider you are going to sell a stock within certain range you construct a package with such a Pricing Strategies to buy a put option with a low strike price, $20 and sell a call option with a high strike price, $30. If the spot price is lower than $20, we are going to exercise the put option and your call option dies. If the spot price is between $20 and $30 both of your options die and you can sell the underlying asset in the market. If the spot price is over $30 you the put option dies and you will be asked to exercise the call option by your counterpart. Since you buy a put option and sell a call option at the same time then the net premium cost is zero.


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1.2 Practice Option with applications using Bloomberg

This session is intended for new users of Bloomberg that wants to know how to valuate derivatives. Bloomberg service doesn t have a direct derivatives function (key); Instead, to access the derivatives screens you have to be at the financial product you need. The structure in this document will follow Bloomberg s and will be divided in the main financial products: Equity and Currency Options and Commodities futures.

Notation used in this guide

All the commands are going to be written in parenthesis, when function keys (such as F1, F2, F3) are used they will be italic, remember that function keys are assigned to different markets, for example F8 is associated to the equity market.

1.3 Equity Options

All the exercises below are going to use the Intel Corporation Stock (INTC F8) for Valuation purposes. The main Intel information page is shown below, in it number 6 corresponds to Options, Warrants & Convertibles. When clicking on 6, or typing 6 enter (Go) you will get to the Main options screen.


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1.4 Option Valuation (OV) / Num 12.

First of all let s have a brief review of the Black-Scholes formulas to price an option1.

Where

and N(z) which is the normal probability for z. The Black and Scholes valuation model uses these variables: the stock price (So), the exercise price (K) , time to expiration (T), the risk free rate ( r ), the dividend rate (q) , and the volatility of the stock ( , its standard deviation). All these variables can be entered into Bloomberg to value the option.

1 John C. Hull: Options, Futures and Other Derivatives.

1. Stock price (So)

2. Strike price (K)

3. Time to expiration (T)

4. Risk free rate ( r )

5. Volatility

6. Dividend yield


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1. Stock Price

The Price of INTC US Equity is the current stock price that Bloomberg register; note that if you type exactly that (INTC US F8) into Bloomberg you will go again to the INTC home page where you can check the last movements of the stock.

2. Strike price (K)

Bloomberg by default uses the same market price. You can change the price by clicking in the amber zone and typing the strike price you would like; immediately after that the price of the option will be updated.

3. Time to expiration (T)

The time to expiration can be settled by either changing the line where the days to expiration are shown, this will make that the system updates the expiration date that is shown two lines below, or vice versa.

4. Risk free rate ( r )

The rate used by Bloomberg is an interpolated point from the default curve that coincides with the time to expiration of the option. The default curve is defined in the page: RDFL <Enter>. If you don t go to this page Bloomberg will use its own Default curve.

In the RDFL page you can change the default curve just by typing in the amber zone the code of one of the curves listed below. For example, if you want to use the US Government Strips you should type I39.

5. Volatility

There are two basic ways to estimate the volatility. The first method uses historical data (Bloomberg default), while the second technique employs actual data from the options market given the prices of options traded. In Bloomberg you can choose between these two methods. The volatility is calculated as the standard deviation of the day-to-day logarithmic price returns expressed as an annualized percentage. The basic volatility formulas are:

1t

tt P

PPR

)ln(1

1

T

ttPR

TPR

Var(PR)=T

tt PRPR

T 1

22 )(ln1

1

Annualized = BDDaily

BD= Business day in a year, it s usually in the range (250, 256, 260)


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The default volatility is based on the historical volatility of the underlying security. The Historical Price Volatility function, HVT displays historical volatility for the underlying security. HVT <HELP> displays further information. Bloomberg takes the last 90 days of data of the underlying security as of the previous day's calculations, and then it is annualized using 260 days (business days). In the right low corner of the HVT page you have the information about current market implied volatilities for Calls and Puts.

The periodicity of the data has the possibility to be changed in the amber zone at the right of Period. There you can pick among daily (D), weekly (W) or monthly (M) data frequency to compute the annualized volatility. Also, you can choose the type of data you are going to use; the 4 different possibilities are:

T- Trade: last trade registered in Bloomberg (default). B- Bid: last Bid registered in Bloomberg. A- Ask: last Ask registered in Bloomberg. V- Volume: The weighted average by volume of all the operations registered in Bloomberg. To use either implied or historical volatility you have to be in the OV page. There if you change the volatility that is in the Option Valuation and Risk Parameters the price of the option will be automatically updated, this means that you can check what will be the theoretical price for any given volatility.

6. Dividend yield

OV uses either discrete dividends, or a dividend yield (continuous dividends), which is calculated from the projected dividend streams. Some models (e.g., Trinomial Tree) allow using either discrete or continuous dividends. Other models (e.g., Black Scholes) are limited to continuous dividends. Switching between dividend types (when applicable) can be done via the OV Dividend Defaults window; which is accessed by typing 3 <go> in the OV screen. Information in the Dividend Screen:

- Dividend Yield: The dividend per share divided by the stock's market price per share, in percentage terms.

- Num of Divs: The number of dividends. The overall number of flows prior to expiration.

- Sum of Divs: The sum of dividends. The overall amount of dividends paid out during the period.

- Last Div Date: The last dividend date. The date of the last dividend prior to expiration.

- Ex-Date:The ex-dividend date. The date before which you must own the security in order to receive the current dividend.

- Amount: The amount of the actual or projected dividend. - Dividend flow from: The date range used to calculate the dividend. - Annualized Dividend Flow: The sum of all the dividend payments made by the

stocks in the index calculated on an annual basis. - Annualized Dividend Yield: The dividend yield calculated on an annual basis.


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Current Market Screen

If you are in the security screen ant types either call (enter) or Put (enter) you will be directed to the options market summary page for calls/puts. There you can compare in a very fast way the last reported prices and the theoretical prices for the option.

You can also type OMON (enter) to go a page when you can see in a matrix and very organized manner the actual prices. Each price in the matrix can give you more information if you just click and hold the mouse and release it over DES (descripton).

1.5 Exotic Option Valuation (OVX) / Num 13.

8- Barrier Options:

As with any option, a barrier option is a contract that specifies a payoff to the investor, based on the price of some underlying asset. Unlike standard options, there is a critical price for the underlying stock, called the barrier, which is specified at the time the option contract is initiated.

Should the price of the underlying stock breach (i.e. cross) this barrier before option expiration, the option can either be extinguished immediately or be replaced by a standard option. The test of whether the underlying stock price has crossed the barrier can be done continuously or infrequently, such as once a week or once a day.

1. Description of the screen:

Barrier 1: The level of the barrier if the barrier type is Knockout or Knockin. For the double barrier option, this is the level of one of the barriers.

Barrier 2: For double barrier options, the level of the second barrier.

Rebate 1: The rebate payment in currency units (e.g., US dollars). The payment can be 0 or greater. For Knockouts, it is the rebate you get when you cross barrier #1 assuming payment at the time the barrier is crossed. For Knockins, this is paid at expiration if the barrier has not been crossed by then.

Rebate 2: For double barrier options. The rebate payment in currency units (e.g., US dollars). The payment can be 0 or greater. For double Knockouts, it is the rebate you get when you cross barrier #2, assuming payment at the time the barrier is crossed. For double Knockins, this is paid at expiration if neither barrier has been crossed by then. This rebate is required to have the same value as rebate #1 in this case.

Barrier type: For a list of barrier types, move your cursor to the highlighted field.


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Direction: The barrier must be crossed in this direction. For example, choose (1) up for up-and-out. For a list of options, move your cursor to the highlighted field.

Monitoring frequency: How often (in days) the asset price is checked to see if the barrier has been breached. For example, (0) continuous monitoring, (1) once a day at closing, etc. NOTE: Assumes that the "Last monitored date" is monitored.

First Mon. Date: The date the monitoring starts. Defaults to the trade date.

Last Mon. Date: The date the monitoring ends. Defaults to the option expiration date.

NOTE: OVX calculates barrier options using dividend yields. Calculations based on discrete dividends are not available. When you first run OVX, dividend yield is calculated based on existing projections for the first year. If projections are not available for the first year and the option has a longer horizon, yield is calculated based on projections for the second year.

2. Description of Barrier Options:

Knockout option: A barrier option that is automatically terminated if the (monitored) asset (index) price, S(t), breaches the barrier, H, before option expiration. If this happens, a rebate is paid. If S < H, then the barrier may be breached only if the index moves up to the barrier up-and-out option. Conversely, for S > H, the barrier would have a down-and-out option.

Knockin option: A contract that causes a plain-vanilla option to come into existence automatically if the (monitored) value of the index breaches the barrier before the contract's expiration. If this does not happen, a rebate is paid at expiration.

Double knockout / knockin: An option with two barriers. For example, a double knockout option would have a simultaneous down-and-out and up-and-out feature (H_down < S < H_up). Such an option would terminate the moment either the upper or lower barrier is breached. (Also called double-one-touch).

9- Asian Options:

An Asian option, also known as an averaging option, has a payoff that depends on a specified average of prices observed for the underlying asset over some period prior to option expiration. The two major categories are average rate and average strike options.

An average rate option has a payoff given by:

max[ 0, Average(S1,S2,...,SN) - K ] (call)

max[ 0, K - Average(S1,S2,...,SN) ] (put)


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where:

Sj = price of the underlying asset observed at time tj, j=1,...,N.

tj <= tN.

TN = option expiry.

K = strike.

1) Description of the screen:

Average Rate or Strike: The type of option. For a list of choices, move your cursor to the highlighted field.

Average Start: The date on which the averaging starts.

Average End: The date on which the averaging ends.

Averaging Method: Choose (A) Arithmetic or (G) Geometric.

Averaging Frequency: Choose (D) Discrete or (C) Continuous sampling of the asset price.

Averaging Weighting: Enter (W) to use unequal weights for averaging, then enter 4 <Go> to choose the weights and edit the WEIGHT column in the popup window. Otherwise, enter (U) to use unweighted averaging, where all the weights equal 1.

Averaging Points: The number of averaging points during the averaging period.

Average So Far: The average up to and including the trade date.

10- Digital (Binary) Options:

Binary (a.k.a. digital, or all-or-nothing) options can be subdivided into five categories: cash-or-nothing options, asset-or-nothing options, supershares, superfunds, and gap options.

Payoffs of the different types of Binary options:

Cash or nothing call equals:

B, if S(T) > K, 0 otherwise,

where B is a fixed amount (the binary payoff), S(T) is the asset price at exercise (denoted by time T), K is the strike. The corresponding put option pays: B, if S(T) < K, 0 otherwise. The payoff of an asset or nothing call equals:


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S(T), if S(T) > K, 0 otherwise,

i.e. if the asset price at exercise exceeds the strike, the option holder gets the asset value. The corresponding put pays:

S(T), if S(T) < K, 0 otherwise,

A supershare pays an amount B if the asset price at exercise is between the two strike prices, K1 < S(T) < K2.

A superfund (sometimes also called "supershare," which can lead to ambiguity; within the OVX function the terms supershare and superfund are used consistently, according to the definitions in this <HELP> screen) pays:

S(T)/K1, if K1 <= S(T) < K2, 0 otherwise A gap option highlights the dual role of the strike in a standard option. Here the strike that determines whether the option is in-the-money, and the strike that determines the size of the payoff, are different. Thus, the payoff is

k * [ S(T) - K2 ], if k * [ S(T) - K1 ] > 0, 0 otherwise,

where k = 1 for a call, -1 for a put.

11- Lookback Options:

The lookback option gives the holder the right to purchase or sell the underlying asset at the best possible price attained over the life of the option. The monitoring of the underlying price can be done continuously, or infrequently, such as once a week or once a day.

1) Description of the screen:

In addition to the standard option fields, the following fields appear for lookback options:

Fixed or Floating Strike: The type of strike price. For a list of choices, move your cursor to the highlighted field. The strike could be either (1) float, in which case the value of the strike parameter is ignored or (2) Fixed.


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- Floating Strike: Can be seen as ordinary puts and calls where the strike price is replaced by the lowest (for call) or highest (for put) price achieved during the so-called lookback period. The payoff functions are:

Lookback call S(T) - min(S(0),S(1),S(2),.....,S(T))

Lookback put max(S(0),S(1),S(2),.....,S(T)) - S(T)

where S(0),S(1),S(2),.......,S(T) is the sequence of underlying prices observed during the life of the option.

- Fixed Strike (Modified Lookbacks): Ordinary puts and calls where the price of the underlying asset is replaced by the lowest (for puts) or highest (for calls) price achieved during the lookback period. The payoff functions are:

fixed strike lookback call MAX[0, max(S(0),S(1),S(2),.....,S(T)) - K]

fixed strike lookback put MAX[0, K - min(S(0),S(1),S(2),.....,S(T))]

Partial Monitored: For discrete and partial monitoring of the underlying asset, Bloomberg uses a proprietary technique that extends those of S. Babbs (which addresses floating strike lookbacks) and T.H.F Cheuk & T.C.F. Vorst (which address also fixed strike lookback). The complication of a tree calculation arises from the fact that the value of lookback options at each node depends not only on the underlying price and the time but also on the Min (Max) for call (put) achieved at each time step, i.e. the calculation becomes path dependent. The Babbs method sums different price paths for the underlying asset in such a way that the resulting tree only requires one calculation per node. The idea is to express the payoff in terms of units of the asset instead of price. In doing so, the payoff can be written in terms of only one variable which for the case of floating-strike is N(t) = Ln(S(t)/M(t)) where M(t) stands for the min/max price achieved so far by the asset price S(t).

- Lookback options: (a) The monitoring period of the movement of the underlying asset is any subset of the tenor of the option. For example, consider a partial lookback option with six months to expiration, where the observation is only in force for the first three months. (b) The "partial" indicates that the strike price is some percentage (Z) of the observed maximum/minimum (also known as variable floating strike option). The payoff functions are:

Call: S(T) - Z*min(S(0),S(1),S(2),.....,S(T))


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Put: Z*max(S(0),S(1),S(2),.....,S(T)) - S(T)

- Ladder options: Limited lookbacks in which a series of threshold prices (rungs) are set for the underlying security. Like the lookback options, the strike can be either fixed or floating. For a ladder with rungs (L1,L2,L3,...., Ln), define Lmin to be the lowest rung the share price ever went below and Lmax as the highest rung the share price ever went above. The payoff functions for a floating-strike ladder are:

Ladder Call: MAX[0, S(T) - min(Lmin,S(T))]

Ladder Put: MAX[0, max(Lmax,S(T)) - S(T)] The payoff functions for fixed-strike (modified ladder) are:

Fixed-strike ladder call: MAX[0, max(Lmax,S(T)) - K]

Fixed-strike ladder put: MAX[0, K - min(Lmin,S(T))]

The following fields appear for partially monitored options:

First Lookback Dt: The date the monitoring starts.

Last Lookback Dt: The date the monitoring ends.

Lookback or Ladder: If you choose (2) Ladder, the Ladder Level Defaults screen appears. Enter the threshold prices for the underlying security in the highlighted fields.

Minimum/Maximum so far: The minimum or maximum level achieved to date by the underlying security. If you choose (1) Float in the Fixed or Floating Strike field, Maximum appears. If you choose (2) Fixed, Minimum appears.

Percent of Minimum/Maximum to use: The percentage of the minimum/maximum to use as the value of the strike.

Monitoring Frequency: The frequency (in days) at which the asset price is checked to see if the barrier is breached. For example, enter (0) for continuous monitoring, (2) for once every two days, or (0.5) for twice a day.

Option Valuation and Risk Parameters

7-Day Decay: The amount of option premium that is lost over seven days.


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1.6 Currency Options

All the exercises below are going to use Euro/Dollar exchange rate (EUR F11) for Valuation purposes, in its main page, number 6 corresponds to Option Analysis. In the Equity Option example we used the OV screen, in currency, even though it is not listed, you can access it by typing OV; Bloomberg recommends using the new FX options calculator: OVML which has a lot more capabilities.

This is the main OVML screen:

Creating and valuing an option in the OVML screen.

To create currency OTC options in order to value them you have to complete the following steps, which can also be used to value saved options in Bloomberg (saving options is explained later):

Creating a new Option and saving it: 1. Enter OVML <Go>. The screen defaults to a vanilla option. 2. Select the appropriate parameters in all the amber zones. Some descriptions:

o Currency: EURUSD The two currencies involved in the contract, and it also denotes the notation of the strike price, if you need to change the exchange rate is computed go to the menu Update-> Flip-> Flip Currency. The notation for the currencies: USD: Dollar; JPY: Yen; GBP: British pound; CHF: Swiss Franc; CAD: Canadian dollar; AUD: Australian dollar.

o Price: price is the value for every 10,000 of notional. o Premium: Is the value of the transaction, it means how much you will have

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o Style: additional to the common European and American options, in the Single leg option valuation screen you can choose between knock-in and knock-out.

o Call/ Put on: the currency delivered (if you buy a call) to you at the end of the contract if the contract is in the money.

o Strike: This is the exchange rate that you are fixing in the contract. o Notional: Size of the contract

3. To Save the data you go to the menu Tools/Options ->Save Option

Valuating Complex Strategies in the OVML Screen.

The OVML screen has the possibility two value two leg option strategies. In the Strategy Menu you can pick form the most common strategies. The strategies listed are:

Single Straddle: This is the one discussed before, it s the one option strategy.

Straddle: This strategy involves buying a call option and a put option on the same asset at the same strike price and expiration date. This gives you limited risk and unlimited profit potential with a major move in either direction. Is a bet on an increase in volatility .

Strangle: This strategy involves buying an out-of-the-money call option and an out-of-the-money put option on the same asset with the same expiration date and different strike prices. This gives you limited risk and unlimited profit potential with a major move in either direction.

Risk Reversal: It is a hedge strategy that consists of selling a call and buying a put option. This strategy protects against unfavorable, downward price movements but limits the profits that can be made from favorable upward price movements.

Participating Forward: The Participating Forward strategy offers full and immediate hedging of exchange risk and, at the same time, offers the opportunity to participate in favorable exchange rate fluctuations up to a pre-defined level. In most cases, this strategy is constructed as a zero-cost instrument. This implies that you can reduce or eliminate the premium associated with a standard option contract. This strategy is identical to the Risk Reversal strategy in all aspects except that the Strike field is combined under this strategy. The Participating Forward strategy involves buying one option and selling another option with the same strike and maturity, but with a different notional amount.

Diagonal Spread: The Diagonal Spread strategy involves buying one option and selling another option with different strikes and different maturities. This strategy can be used to take a position in forward volatility or the implied forward volatility surface.

Call/Put Spread: The Call/Put Spread strategy involves the purchase and sale of a call or put with different strikes. For example, buy a call option with a relatively low strike, and sell a call option with a high strike.

Calendar Spread: The Calendar Spread strategy involves an option strategy in which a short-term option is sold and a longer-term option is bought, with both having the same striking price. Puts or calls may be used.


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Two Leg: Two leg is the general structure you need to create a two leg options strategy.

In all of these strategies you use the same parameters as in the one leg option strategy.

1.7 Index Options

Index options use the same screens as the Equity options. You just have to find the index you want to valuate and type either OV (enter) for the Option Valuation screen or OVX for the Exotic Option Valuation Screen.

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2 DERIVATIVE SECURITIES RESEARCH ON BLOOMBERG

2.1 DES

Description, displays basic information about a specific futures contract as supplied by the exchange on which the contract is listed: the contract size, value of a point, tick value, delivery dates, option expiration dates, last trading day of contract, available option strike prices, daily price limits, and the time the contract trades. The description screen is perhaps the most important screen for you to look at because it lets you know the specific characteristics of the futures contract (page 2 of DES displays option information). DES also displays generic ticker symbols so you can analyze commodities historically (type US1 (US2, US3 etc.) <Cmdty~ <Go> to track generic first, second contracts historically. Define commodity and type DES <Go>.

Option Analysis:

2.2 Option Valuation ( OV )

Option Valuation, calculates the value of an equity option given a variety of personally selected assumptions. Type OV <Go>.

Same option using Normal Mean rev model



Options-Estimated Prices:

2.3 Call/Put Valuation ( OVE )

Call/Put Valuation displays a list of the current market option prices. If an option has not traded and the underlying commodity has moved in price the screen uses TRADE MATCHED VOLATILITY to estimate the theoretical price of the option assuming option implied volatility is the same as the implied volatility of the last trade of the option. OVE shows intraday option valuation as well as current estimated prices for up to 8 listed call/put strikes on an underlying futures contract. (Run CVE for call valuation and PVE for puts.) Define the commodity and type OVE <Go>.

Options-Current Market:

2.4 Option (Bid/Ask) Monitor ( OMON )

Option (Bid/Ask) Monitor, displays the current market information for options on a security: the bid, offer, and last trade. OMON currently displays the current month at the top of the screen with back months on the following pages (press <Page Fwd> for LEAPS, if they exist). Define the commodity and type OMON <Go> (to access specific option type number (for specific option) <Cmdty> <Go>.

For example: IBM < Equity > OMON < Go >



2.5 Call analysis - Sensitivity ( COAT )

Call analysis (Sensitivity) Table, provides option valuation sensitivity measures for up to 8 call strike prices for an underlying futures contract. The screen allows you to enter your market assumptions and analyze possible outcomes. It shows the main risks confronting an options trader, such as changes in futures price (gamma) and volatility (vega) and the rate of decay in an option s value as expiration approaches. POAT, put analysis (sensitivity) table, is identical to COAT except that POAT analyzes put options. Define the commodity and type COAT <Go>.



2.6 Option Horizon Analysis ( OHT )

Option Horizon Analysis, allow you to simulate how changes in price, time and volatility will effect option valuation. It provides option horizon analysis for up to 8 listed call/put strikes on an underlying futures contract. You can design any market scenario you desire changing the underlying futures price, volatility level and time to expiration. OHT displays value of a straddle. Define the commodity and type OHT <Go>.



2.7 Options Position Horizon Analysis ( OHTX )

Options Position Horizon Analysis allows you to run and future analysis under various market scenarios. You can compare different strategies to determine which position matches your risk/reward ratios given your outlook on the market. It lets you see how your profit and loss, dollar risk, and net delta of your position would be altered by a change in the futures price, or volatility, or the erosion in the time period before expiration. Define the commodity and type OHTX <Go>.



2.8 Covered call write analysis ( CWA )

Covered call write analysis



CWS--Covered Write Scan

2.9 Option Scenario Analysis ( OSA )

Option Scenario Analysis, provides a flexible option horizon analysis for up a selected equity. Create up to three scenarios and view their effects on each position you hold. Select the equity and type OSA <Go>.

For example: IBM <Equity> OSA <Go>

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