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Anindya A. BoralDirector – Metals Products
Master Class Session
Hedging Bullion Price Exposure using Options
9th India International Gold Convention – Hyderabad, IndiaAugust 24, 2012
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About CME Group
Merged in 2007 to form CME Group
World’s leading and most diverse derivatives market place building on the rich heritage of our four des ignated contract markets: CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX
Acquired by CME Group in 2008NYMEX/COMEX merged in 1994
COMEX Division
Our deep and liquid markets include benchmark contracts across all major asset classes : Interest Rates, FX, Equity Indexes and Commodities.
Emissions products: EUAs and CERs
• Interest Rates : Eurodollar futures and options, U.S. Treasury futures and options, Interest Rate Swaps
• Equity Indexes futures and options: S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Dow Jones, S&P CNX Nifty, Nikkei 225
• FX: Futures and options across all major G10 and Emerging Markets currency pairs
• Agricultural Commodities : Wheat, Corn, Soybeans, Rice, Livestock, Dairy Products, Softs, Forestry (lumber/pulp) and Commodity Indexes (S&P GSCI)
• Crude and Refined Products: Global benchmarks for Light Sweet Crude – WTI (CL) ,
• Natural Gas (NG), Gasoline (RBOB), Heating Oil (HO), Diesel (ULSD)
• Precious Metals: Global benchmark futures/options contracts for Gold (GC/OG)and Silver (SI/SO) .
• Base Metals: Copper (HG)
• PGMs: Platinum and Palladium futures/options.
• Ferrous: Iron Ore and Steel futures/options
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Options Introduction – Basics and Options Vocabulary
Definition – An option on a futures contract is the right , but not the obligation , to buy or sell a particular futures contract at a specific price (the “Strike) and on or before a certain expiration date (the “Expiration” or “Maturity”).
• Classification by right: Call options and Put options .
• Classification by Exercise: European options and American options.
Our options markets are based on option contracts o n futures. The subsequent discussions will be focus ed on the options on futures (and not the underlying ca sh asset)
Right to buy underlying futures Right to sell under lying futures
Premium Cost
• Purchasing a Call/Put option akin to purchasing insurance… and you need to pay a premium for the “optionality”!
Exercise only on expiration date Can exercise anytime up to expiration date
Breakeven Point
Options Payoff Profile:
Long $1,000 Gold PutLong $3.00 Copper Call
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Option Prices – Introduction to Volatility
Option Premium = Time Value + Intrinsic Valu e
Based on difference between current futures prices and the option strike. Only for “in-the-money” options.
Depends on:
• Time remaining to Expiration
• “Moneyness” of the option (i.e., how far is the futures prices from the Strike?)
• Volatility of the underlying futures prices
An option’s premium can be made up of one or both o f two components:
Volatility is a function of price movement…
• Measure of uncertainty of asset returns / degree of price fluctuation
• When prices are rising or falling substantially, volatility is said to be high. When a futures contract shows little price movement, volatility is said to be low.
• High volatility generally causes options premiums to increase – sometimes very dramatically. Lower volatility environments generally cause options premiums to decline.
• Relatively easy to calculate “historic” volatility based on the time-series futures price data.Futures Price Daily Return
Technically speaking, Volatility is the standard deviation of daily returns…expressed in annualised terms.
σσσσ
Option value is higher for >>> longer time to expiry, futures price closer to Strike, and Higher Volatility (Vol)
Moneyness terms >>> At-the-money (ATM), In-the-money (ITM), Out-of-the-Money (OTM)
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Option Prices – Some Important Concepts
Note : The OTC market also tends to refer to Strikes in terms of Deltas (10D, 25D etc.). Higher trading activity typically around the 25D mark.
Option Value Recap and Option Delta:
• Option value made up of time value – and intrinsic value, if in-the-money.
• Delta measures the rate of change of an option value with respect to a price change in the underlying futures contract. Delta is a measure of price sensitivity at any given moment.
Time Value Erosion:Time value of an option erodes as each day passes, accelerating as expiration nears. This characteristic of options is referred to as “time-decay ”. If time passes and the underlying futures contract does not move far enough by expiry, the option’s time value will eventually decay to zero.
Increased Voland Moneyness
Intrinsic Value
Time ValueTotal Option Value
Futures Price
Opt
ion
Val
ue
Strike
In-the-money∆∆∆∆ ~1
Out-of-the-money∆∆∆∆ ~0
∆∆∆∆ = 0.5
∆∆∆∆
Time Decay
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Implied Volatility
Futures Price
Strike
Time to Expiry
Interest Rates
Volatility
Options Pricing Model
(e.g., Black Formula)
Option Price
Futures Price
Strike
Time to Expiry
Implied Volatility (IVol)
Interest Rates
Options Pricing Model
(e.g., Black-Formula)
Market Option Price
Regular Options Pricing Method:(relatively straightforward)
Deducing the “Implied Vol”:(iterative calculations setup required unfortunately)
Ultimately the cost of an option is determined by s upply and demand. We can infer market’s anticipatio n for risk or expected price change from observed market prices for options.
• In other words, option IVol can be seen as a measure of risk associated with an anticipated movement in the underlying futures price (e.g., due to a policy updates from a central bank, or release of key economic data).
• For many commodities, we observed an “inverse leverage effect” (in contrast to the equity markets). IVol levels tend to move (sometimes jump) higher during price increases and high-price periods.
• IVol is used in the market (in particular the OTC market) as a proxy for option value…higher IVol consistent with higher option price paid (Vols are activity traded in the market and drive numerous strategies around options trading).
Need to account for the “Volatility Skew” – For a given expiration, IVols can edge higher as you move away from at-the-money (ATM) strikes (options theory assumes constant vol across strikes though).
The Vol Skew (and trends in the levels and shape of skew) are likely to provide some useful insights into market demand and aggregate market sentiment around price movements.
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Volatility Term Structure and Surfaces
The Vol term structure and skews may be combined to create a Vol Surface.
Traders regularly use vol surfaces to assess trading and arbitrage opportunities.
This is just a representative example(not based on gold market data)
Source: Reuters
Source: Bloomberg
Front-end has come off by about 2 vols
Impl
ied
Vol
atili
ty (
%)
Impl
ied
Vol
atili
ty (
%)
ATM1-MO Vol Skew on 13-JUL
1-MO Vol Skew on 14-AUG
Source: Bloomberg
Vol Term Structure for gold:
Vol Skews for gold:
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Tracking Volatility in the Gold Markets
From the CME Risk Management Handbook – “IVol is forward-looking assessment of underlying futures price risk, whereas HVol is backward-looking assessment of where price risk has been.”
Key Takeaway: Market’s assessment of volatility can shift quite a bit.
Source: Bloomberg
U.S. Fed QE2 ($600bn) ends; U.S. credit downgrade in Aug; deepening Eurozone worries and signs of a severe economic slowdown. Gold’s emergence as a safe-haven asset that drives front-month gold futures prices toward the $1,900 mark.
Gold futures front-month prices ($/oz)
30-day Historic Vol
1-Mo ATM Implied Vol
3-Mo ATM Implied Vol
Eurozone worries re-emerge; signs of Asian slowdown; disappointing U.S. economic indicators. “Risk-off” environment takes hold.
Eurozone worries persist; Italian debt concerns emerge
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COMEX Options Markets – Volumes and Open Interest
Options on metals futures products provide the liquidity, flexibility and market depth needed to achieve market participants trading objectives…
…from the simple to the most sophisticated of trading strategies.
COMEX has one of the most liquid precious metals futures and options markets in the world.
Option contracts based on our flagship futures contracts that are global benchmarks.
• 2012 Daily volumes:
• Gold Options: 40,000 contractsGold Futures: 190,000 contracts
• Silver Options: 7,000 contractsSilver Futures: 55,000 contracts
• 2012 Open Interest:
• Gold Options: 1.2 million contractsGold Futures: 425,000 contracts
• Silver Options: 190,000 contractsSilver Futures: 115,000 contracts
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COMEX Options Markets – Electronic Trading Activity
We have seen a remarkable growth in our options mar kets driven by an increase in electronic trading vo lumes via our Globex platform.
• Gold option volumes grew almost 4-fold over the past 5 years to average around 40,000 contracts changing hands daily in first half of 2012.
• Almost 45% of our gold option volumes come via our Globex electronic trading platform.
• It is noteworthy that electronic trading activity in gold options was virtually non-existent back in early-2007.
• However, the open outcry and off-exchange (ClearPort) venues still important for options -especially when it comes to executing complex option strategies.
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COMEX Options Products – Contract Specifications
Short-Term Gold Options
Our ST Gold Options are physically-settled options with expiries over the next 5 business days. These are European-style options with automatic exercise on expiration.
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Margins
• An option buyer must only put up the amount of the premium, in full, at the time of the trade. However, because option selling involves more risk, an option seller or writer will be required to post performance bond.
• Once an options position is exercised into a futures position, performance bond is required, just as for any other futures position.
COMEX Options Products – Some Important Information
Gold Option Specs Recap
• One standard monthly option contract (OG) delivers into one futures contract.
• One Gold futures contract (GC) constitutes a contract for delivery of 100 troy oz. of Gold to an Exchange-approveddepository at a specific date in the future.
• One options contract would allow the buyer or assign the seller to take or give possession of one corresponding underlying futures contract the specific date of each contract.
Options Expiration Procedure / monthly options
Settlement is based on the COMEX close at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). Abandonments and assignments must be submitted to the Exchange by 4:30 p.m. ET.
Option Buyers exercise and sellers get assigned.
Notice of exercise and abandonments are generally given by 8:00 p.m. ET.
Cycle Months
Gold options settle into underlying futures contracts on a cycle-month schedule.
For example, a November options contract exercises into a December futures contract. Since the December futures price is generally different from the November futures price, the option must be valued with the December (Cycle Month) price in mind.
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Choose Venue
Choose Underlying futures
Choose Options Expiration
Tools Available on CME Metals Website – Delayed Quotes
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Tools Available on CME Metals Website – Open Interest Profile
Our Metals Options Open Interest Profile provides p owerful insights into open interest patterns for ou r core option contracts.
Open Interest Profile for Dec-12 Gold Option Contra ct (OG) • Why is this valuable? Options incorporate Calls/Puts, variety of contract months, and a wide range of Strikes.
• Market participants can assess market sentiment and liquidity pools in the option markets.
• Can also help market participants draw inferences around likely support and resistance levels.
• Can also help identify “pin risk” potential around certain strikes.
$1800
$2200
$2000
$2300
$1400
$1200
GCZ2 Dec-12 GC futures16- Aug Settle: $1619.2
$1500
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Some Basic Strategies – Downside Protection
Options can be used to provide effective downside p rotection – but an options hedging strategy likely t o require careful consideration and preparation.
• A word of caution – Options can be effective risk management instruments, but you need to have a good understanding of the entailed risks and operational aspects of options trading (especially if you are selling options).
• Further, there may be regulatory restrictions that are likely to restrict your ability to access the global options markets – it is very important to have a thorough knowledge of these.
90% Put
Current Price
Upside Participation
Market Price
Rea
lised
Pric
e
Price Protection
Put Payoff
Underlying PositionRealised Floor Price
Strike
– Premium paid
– Basis, if any (may be positive too)
– Exchange fee / Broker’s commission
= Floor Price
Call or Put Protection
• Within options-based hedging, buying Calls (for metal consumers) or Puts (for metal distributors) for price protection is the most basic and relatively straightforward strategy.
• Can be rather expensive though:
Example – A gold dealer looking to sell metal in December may purchase 90% Dec-12 Puts. Present Dec-12 futures price $1619.2/oz (16-Aug settle). Closest Put Strike is $1455.
Premium: $10.50 (at 16-Aug settle) / less than 1% of notional
Realised Floor at approx $1,443 (assuming no basis or brokerage fees)
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Some Basic Strategies – Downside Protection
90% Put
Current Price
Upside Participation
Market Price
Rea
lised
Pric
e Put Payoff
Underlying Position
75% Put (Price Protection ends here)
90% Put
Current Price
Limited Upside Participation
Market Price
Rea
lised
Pric
e
Price Protection
Put Payoff
Underlying Position
Call Payoff
Option spreads can be used to reduce the strategy c ost, while enabling reasonable price protection.
Call or Put Spreads
• Purchasing Call- or Put-spreads enables price protection over a specific price range, as against complete downside risk protection (i.e., some tail risk remains).
• Can be used to take advantage of the vol skew in periods of elevated volatility.
• “Leg-risk” needs to be considered when executing.
Following the earlier example – a long 90%-80% Put spread costs $8.50 based on 16-Aug settle (price protection in approx$1445-$1295 range).
Collars / Costless Collars
• These strategies involve forgoing some upside participation in return for far reduced costs (as strategy requires selling out-of-the-money Calls).
• Can be used to take advantage of the vol skew in periods of elevated volatility.
• “Leg-risk” needs to be considered when executing.
Following the earlier example – A 90% near-Cashless Collar would likely limit upside to 112% (i.e., price protection at $1450 with upside limit at $1820 based on 16-Aug settle).
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Accessing Information
CME Group Metals Page
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/metals/
Click on OPT to see options quotes
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Contact Information
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Some Useful Links:
Fee Schedule – http://www.cmegroup.com/company/clearing-fees/index.html
Open Interest Profile – http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/metals/options-open-interest/main.html
Margins – http://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/margins/
Options Exercise Months – http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/metals/files/PM236_Metals_Option_Exercise.pdf
Brokers Directory – http://www.cmegroup.com/tools-information/find-a-broker/broker-directory-as.html
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Important Information
DISCLAIMER
Futures trading is not suitable for all investors, and involves the risk of loss. Futures are a leveraged investment, and because only a percentage of a contract’s value is required to trade, it is possible to lose more than the amount of money deposited for a futures position. Therefore, traders should only use funds that they can afford to lose without affecting their lifestyles. And only a portion of those funds should be devoted to any one trade because they cannot expect to profit on every trade. All references to options refer to options on futures unless otherwise stated.
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