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Cash and Carry Arbitrage

An arbitrage technique that involves trading between the futures and spot markets by buying the underlying of a futures contract...

Equivalent Martingale Measure

A risk-neutral measure that is used to price derivative contingent claims such as average rate options by implementing stochastic discount…

Arbitrage

A trading tactic in which an asset is bought at a low price on one market and then is immediately…

Crown Jewels

The best and most coveted assets/ divisions/ units in a company in terms of value, profitability and business prospects. Companies...

Convertible Hedge

An arbitrage strategy that is based on buying a convertible security (like convertible bonds) and simultaneously selling short the issuing…

Covered Interest Arbitrage 

A straightforward currency swap in which the two counterparties simultaneously exchange currencies at the spot and forward rates. This swap…

Covered Arbitrage 

An arbitrage technique that is based on the creation of a synthetic foreign exchangeforward contract using two zero-coupon debt instruments…

Carry Arbitrage

A potentially riskless transaction which involves taking a long position in a spot asset (i.e., carrying that asset) and a...

Index Arbitrage

Trading strategies which are designed to make profits when the futures value of the stocks underling an index is different...

Boundary Conditions

The constraints which are posed on the value of an option such as those determining the relationships among an option’s...