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3 December 2013
US Derivatives Spotlight
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The main risk of the short 1M call occurs in violent rallies. Figure 14 shows
that the frequency of sharp rallies in our backtest period is comparable to that
from the prior -50 years.
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occurrences of big 1M rallies in our backtest period.
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Call spreads have had better risk-adjusted performance than all other strategies
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Spreading a call option by selling a higher strike call reduces net delta
exposure. So, call spreads tend to have lower returns in rallying markets but
provide better downside protection (see Figure 9 above).
However, looking at the entire backtest period between Dec-02 and Sep-13
(both up and down markets), we find that call spreads tended to have
annualized returns largely in line with outright call positions. Not surprisingly,
call spread strategies experienced much lower volatility and higher risk-
adjusted returns (see Figure 15 to Figure 18).
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
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