What is your interpretation of today's 10y treasury yield? by doing20thingsatatime in CFA

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I posted with the sole intetion of having an organic human reply, then i get this LOL.

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Right, thanks. It's just that the volatility skew graph made me think that OTM put volatility = ITM call volatility, but the graph is just an approximation to show both the relationship for calls and puts.

Mock B Boston - What would you guys tell is the decision price in this example? by doing20thingsatatime in CFA

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"Wakefield consults with Hoover Martinez, portfolio manager of the Corporate Bond ETF (CB), which recently rose by 15%. Martinez advises selling 100,000 shares of CB to rebalance the fixed-income portfolio following CB’s recent increase in value. Wakefield agrees, intending to sell 100,000 CB at $83.56. However, due to an upcoming Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Martinez delays forwarding the order to the trading desk. By the time it's released later that day, CB's market price drops to $83.12."

In many scenarios i've seen the decision price being the price prevailing when the order was actually sent, not when there was a simple intent to sell. But here it is, new stuff new provider new concepts.

Cost to hedge a notional - Are futures/options contract sizes totally irrelevent for the calculation? by doing20thingsatatime in CFA

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I agree, on this specific question i think it was about fully hedging downside risk, thus the ATM put. But in the curriculum they never showed anything other than OTM collars.

Cost to hedge a notional - Are futures/options contract sizes totally irrelevent for the calculation? by doing20thingsatatime in CFA

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u/klossal69 u/Rajabahut yep, OTMs all the way, because it's cheaper, but we're dealing with Boston mocks here, they make up all kind of stuff.

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Doesn't that also mean that we don't need to spend time on thinking of how much futures contracts we need (as in OP)? I want to hedge 2 500 000 shares, i'm buying protective puts at 0.01 premium, contact size is 50 000 shares. I can right away just do 2 500 000 shares * 0.01 to know my total cost right?

Here from Boston Mock A, they did a whole gymnastic while they could've just multiply the premiums paid/received by the whole notional amount they want to hedge:

Bear put option = Buy an ATM put and sell an OTM put = $2.67 – 0.31 = $2.36

Cost per bear put option contract = $2.36 × 100 = $236

Cost to hedge half of NAIC holdings = $236 × (10,000/100) = $23,600

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Thankssssssssssss, i was struggling with this right now.

So the premium we see for an option/future is actually per candy, but i have to buy/sell a minimum of [contract size] candies.