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by aw1978
February 16th, 2005, 1:40 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: Delta hedging for Dispersion Strategy
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Delta hedging for Dispersion Strategy

I've heard about the problem with the options drifting out of alignment. Pardon my ignorance, but what are variance swaps? I've never heard of these - are they liquid enough to trade?
by aw1978
February 15th, 2005, 3:29 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: Delta hedging for Dispersion Strategy
Replies: 22
Views: 170826

Delta hedging for Dispersion Strategy

<t>I was wondering if anyone had any insights regarding the optimal method of hedging deltas within a dispersion strategy. My first instinct would be to hedge on a daily basis, given that correlation data woudld be calculated off of daily returns. Or, maybe the best method would be to hedge long gam...