Hi there, I was wondering what exotic and "vanilla +" products are currently active in the intedealer market. Variance Swaps, Correlation Swaps, EDF's. Dividend Swaps.... any others?thanks in advance!

Why would a company care if it's options trade at all?

an article i read said there woudl be more companies than just the three we know so far. they are having a press release later this afternoon. just because somehting is unregulated, doesn't mean the regular laws (fraud, murder, etc.) don't apply.

<t>the delta is simply to compensate for dividends. let's say the stock pays a 1$ dividend, at the time you enter in the forward start spot is 100, so 1% div yield, but six months from when the option is actually struck, the stock could be at 80 or 120 so the 1$ dividend is going to increase or decr...

look in your text book for "minimum variance portfolio". memorize this formula since it will definitely be on the exam! alternatively you could actually try to understand what is going on and work it out like jonny suggests.

<t>Um, jokes aside, perfectly positive correlated stocks don;t guarantee a perfect hedge by any means. Unless you know the magnitude of the move right? Even if they always move in the exact same direction (correlation = 1), the stock you buy may move half as much as the one you are short and you can...

<t>Right. While some of the Kosher rules seem to make sense and people theorize that they were made laws to protect people bakc in the day, a religious jew might actually get offended if you told him that's what you beleive. In the laws, there is absolutely no mention of why. You do it cause god sai...

<t>After Sept 11th I expected to see a decline in america bashing. By this I do not mean agreeing with everything the US does or stands for but a general reduction in the ridiculous rhetoric you hear out of Lefties the world over about the US. Knee jerk, dogmatic thoutless and unfair stuff. I have b...

they really mean that at this price we are ready to sell a risky, strangle or butterfly, and this other price we are to buy. I think maybe you need to rephrase your question.

<t>matt007 you keep asking these questions.... vol trading is done tied to stock/underlying. Your vega woudl have been sold and your delta woudl have been bought at one time, together, as one trade, get it? If your client wants to buy or sell an option outright (no delta hedge) you give him a price ...

<t>DCFC, Just to clarify, the supposed anti-semetism is not in the movie, it is in the last paragraph of the review of Kill Bill posted below. The guy who wrote the review on his blog at the atlantic monthly (where he is a writer), is also a hugely popular football commentator on espn's page two cal...

<t>Dude, what is there to prove wrong? Yes, we all agree that certain people within the US government argued before Sept 11th that a more muscular foreign policy would be the best way to ensure the safety of Amricans going forward. Fine. That doesn't mean they wanted Sept 11th to happen or that they...

<t>What the fuck are you talking about? What disturbing facts? Dude, motive is not enough to go about spouting this shit. That is my point. If I hate Jeff, and Jeff dies, should I go to jail for murder? And if you wrote articles about how I murdered Jeff, you better have more to go on then the fact ...

Dude I was joking about the Guardian obviously but I it bothers me that newspapers like these give a forum for people like Meacher to make their sick arguments. He is basically accusing the US of murder with no proof. Absolutely not a shred of evidence. It's disgusting.

<t>The fire did rage all day, in a completely cement building no less. That part we all saw live on TV. I guess they could have staged that too if they wanted.... I guess "they" could fake anything right? How do we really know George Bush is a real person? Have any of you touched him, smelled him, k...