Trading, Hedging and Investment Strategies Flashcards
(52 cards)
Which of the following best describes the maximum profit available to the holder of a bull call spread?
The difference between the two strikes minus the net initial premium
Which of the following would be a motivation for undertaking a covered short call?
Prices will remain stable
How would an investor maximise return in the UK equity market if no change in the market is expected?
Sell calls and sell puts
Which of the following would be an example of an intermarket interest rate spread trade?
Buy June STIR, sell June Euribor future
Which of the following is an example of an intra-market spread?
Long September lead futures contract, short a December lead futures contract
Simon is short JGB futures. Which of the following is true?
Simon believes that Japanese interest rates will rise
Which one of the following would create a synthetic equity fund in combination with a holding of a cash deposit?
Long-future
George is uncertain over the direction of interest rates but wants to hedge against an increase in the borrowing rate on a loan he took out three months ago. Which of the following is the most suitable position to adopt (using options on interest rate futures)?
Buying puts
A synthetic long call is created by:
Long a future, long a put
An investor believes that the price of a share will stay at 240 between now and the expiry date. What strategy should he adopt to get the most profit available?
Short-straddle
An investor expects that the eurozone yield curve would rotate and flatten at the long-end.
What spread trade would make sense in this situation?
Sell the euribor future and buy the bund future
Long-future + long-put =
Synthetic long-call
An investor wishing to undertake a long-strangle would do which of the following trades?
Buy a put and a call with different strikes, but the same expiry month
A futures intra-market spread order is best described as:
An order to buy the near-dated future and sell the far-dated future for the same contract
Which of the following spreads would be best used in anticipation of a major announcement by a commodity producer?
Horizontal spread
Which of the following investments would create a diagonal spread?
An investor buys a call option and simultaneously sells another call option with a different strike and different expiry
An option credit spread is:
Purchase and sale of a different strike and same expiry put options. This will cause a net initial credit.
Which of the following would constitute a speculative trade with the most directional bias?
An investor writes a naked call option without having a underlying position in the asset
Which of the following best describes the formula for hedging a holding of the cheapest-to-deliver (CTD) bond using gilt futures?
(nominal value of CTD/face value of future) x pricing factor
An investor holds a position long in the underlying and also owns a put on that underlying. How could she eliminate market risk?
Synthetic short call
Option spreads must
(1) contain either two calls or two puts, and (2) consist of a purchase of one and a sale of the other.
An investor that simultaneously holds a call and sells a put with the same contract specifications. Their position could be described as a:
Long position
Long-strangle
- buy call and put - different strikes.
Short-strangle
sell call and put - different strikes.
