Practitioner Papers

Options as risk tools

Most institutions that use options understand the payoffs. They don’t understand what they’re actually trading.

This paper reframes options the way a trading desk does – as bundles of specific exposures, each with a cost.

If your hedge isn’t behaving the way you expected, this is why.

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