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==={{eqderivprov|Share Transactions}} on [[futures]]=== | ==={{eqderivprov|Share Transactions}} on [[futures]]=== | ||
A trick for young players. For all this talk of {{eqderivprov|Futures Price Valuation}}, section {{eqderivprov|8 | A trick for young players. For all this talk of {{eqderivprov|Futures Price Valuation}}, section {{eqderivprov|6.8}} is all about {{eqderivprov|Index Transaction}}s and {{eqderivprov|Index Basket Transaction}}s, where (since you can’t by an {{eqderivprov|Index}} directly, it not being a corporeal thing, but merely an interesting<ref>Look, just go with me on this one, would you?</ref> disembodied intellectual concept), so the cleanest way of getting actual exposure to an index is to buy [[futures]] on the {{eqderivprov|Index}}. It's that, or buying the actual shares underlying the index — which is quite the operational pain in the posterior, if there are a hundred shares: all that balancing whenever the index constituents change. Gah. You get the idea. | ||
Now, what say you want to write an {{eqderivprov|Equity Swap Transaction}} on a ''share'' [[future]] directly? | Now, what say you want to write an {{eqderivprov|Equity Swap Transaction}} on a ''share'' [[future]] directly? | ||
Revision as of 16:02, 26 September 2019
A trick for young players. For all this talk of Futures Price Valuation, section 6.8 is all about Index Transactions and Index Basket Transactions, where (since you can’t by an Index directly, it not being a corporeal thing, but merely an interesting[1] disembodied intellectual concept), so the cleanest way of getting actual exposure to an index is to buy futures on the Index. It's that, or buying the actual shares underlying the index — which is quite the operational pain in the posterior, if there are a hundred shares: all that balancing whenever the index constituents change. Gah. You get the idea.
Now, what say you want to write an Equity Swap Transaction on a share future directly?
Question one you’ll have (I know, because I had it) is why would you write an OTC derivative on an exchange-traded derivative of an exchange-traded security? At least with an Index, if you want to hedge unmessily, the only option is a future. Hence all this Futures Price Valuation malarkey.
But if it is just a single share, why not just reference that single Share and make it a standard Share Transaction?
As is so often the case, the answer can be laid at the door of our American friends. The CFTC doesn’t allow one to write swaps on certain Shares, so if you want synthetic exposure to them, the, ahhh, future is your only hope.[2]
You may want to borrow some of the concepts from this Futures Price Valuation, but you’ll need to do some ninja mutatis mutandis moves.