Théorie moderne du portefeuilleLa théorie moderne du portefeuille est une théorie financière développée en 1952 par Harry Markowitz. Elle expose comment des investisseurs rationnels utilisent la diversification afin d'optimiser leur portefeuille, et quel devrait être le prix d'un actif étant donné son risque par rapport au risque moyen du marché. Cette théorie fait appel aux concepts de frontière efficiente, coefficient bêta, droite de marché des capitaux et droite de marché des titres. Sa formalisation la plus accomplie est le modèle d'évaluation des actifs financiers ou MEDAF.
Modèle binomialEn finance, le modèle binomial (ou modèle CRR du nom de ses auteurs) fournit une méthode numérique pour l'évaluation des options. Il a été proposé pour la première fois par Cox, Ross et Rubinstein (1979). Le modèle est un modèle discret pour la dynamique du sous-jacent. L'évaluation de l'option est calculée par application de la probabilité risque-neutre pour laquelle les prix actualisés sont des martingales.
Coefficient bêtaLe coefficient bêta est, en finance, une mesure de la volatilité du prix d'un actif par rapport à celle d'un marché financier. Il s'agit d'un coefficient clef du modèle d'évaluation des actifs financiers (MEDAF). Il est un indicateur utile dans la mise en place d'une stratégie de diversification des risques. Le bêta est le rapport entre la rentabilité de cet actif et celle du marché puisque la volatilité concerne les variations de cours qui sont un élément essentiel de rentabilité.
List of commodities exchangesA commodities exchange is an exchange, or market, where various commodities are traded. Most commodity markets around the world trade in agricultural products and other raw materials (like wheat, barley, sugar, maize, cotton, cocoa, coffee, milk products, pork bellies, oil, and metals). Trading includes and various types of derivatives contracts based on these commodities, such as forwards, futures and options, as well as spot trades (for immediate delivery).
Delta neutralIn finance, delta neutral describes a portfolio of related financial securities, in which the portfolio value remains unchanged when small changes occur in the value of the underlying security. Such a portfolio typically contains options and their corresponding underlying securities such that positive and negative delta components offset, resulting in the portfolio's value being relatively insensitive to changes in the value of the underlying security.
Limits to arbitrageLimits to arbitrage is a theory in financial economics that, due to restrictions that are placed on funds that would ordinarily be used by rational traders to arbitrage away pricing inefficiencies, prices may remain in a non-equilibrium state for protracted periods of time. The efficient-market hypothesis assumes that whenever mispricing of a publicly traded stock occurs, an opportunity for low-risk profit is created for rational traders.
Share priceA share price is the price of a single share of a number of saleable equity shares of a company. In layman's terms, the stock price is the highest amount someone is willing to pay for the stock, or the lowest amount that it can be bought for. In economics and financial theory, analysts use random walk techniques to model behavior of asset prices, in particular share prices on stock markets. This practice has its basis in the presumption that investors act rationally and without biases, and that at any moment they estimate the value of an asset based on future expectations.
Pairs tradeA pairs trade or pair trading is a market neutral trading strategy enabling traders to profit from virtually any market conditions: uptrend, downtrend, or sideways movement. This strategy is categorized as a statistical arbitrage and convergence trading strategy. Pair trading was pioneered by Gerry Bamberger and later led by Nunzio Tartaglia's quantitative group at Morgan Stanley in the 1980s. The strategy monitors performance of two historically correlated securities. When the correlation between the two securities temporarily weakens, i.
Arbitrage (finance)L'arbitrage est une opération financière destinée à assurer un gain positif ou nul de manière certaine en profitant d'écarts temporaires de prix constatés entre différents titres ou contrats. Par exemple en prenant position simultanément et en sens contraire soit sur plusieurs actifs dérivés différents soit sur un produit dérivé et son actif sous-jacent.
Arbitrage statistiqueIn finance, statistical arbitrage (often abbreviated as Stat Arb or StatArb) is a class of short-term financial trading strategies that employ mean reversion models involving broadly diversified portfolios of securities (hundreds to thousands) held for short periods of time (generally seconds to days). These strategies are supported by substantial mathematical, computational, and trading platforms. Broadly speaking, StatArb is actually any strategy that is bottom-up, beta-neutral in approach and uses statistical/econometric techniques in order to provide signals for execution.
