HSX Forum

Playing & Trading Strategy

Guaranteed, not maximised

Posted by: srrichardson on Feb 17, 07:51 in response to bloopster's post Yes, I'm familiar with arbitrage. It makes sense when...

OPTIONS - Chimp by EdZep

Show Chimp: (use keyboard F2 for live toggle)

Show HSX time:    Show rolled up:

Suppress on Portfolio page: (Port Monkey compatibility mode)

Custom quantities (button text):      from top, after Max

Custom quantities (amounts):      (no commas)

Widget width:   font size: (both in pixels)

Confirm. window width:   height:    vert. button offset: px


Settings will take effect on page refresh

7:40 AM

When the options were IPO'ed they were at neutral profit (for most 5 options at $5 each, 1 will delist at $25, the rest will delist at $0 so no guaranteed profit at the IPO).  I'm not sure the players would appreciate HSK putting in something to make the prices of each option in a category affect each other so that a set of options were never ARB.  Having said that, while you may be guaranteed a profit, you won't maximise it - say there were options in a category priced 18, 1, 1, 1 and 1 - if maxed them all you'd make 60,000, but if you'd shorted the ones priced at 1, you'd have made 220,000 if the one priced at 18 did win, but risked making a big loss if it didn't - but that's the point of the game, do you take the safe small profit or go for the riskier big profit?





Post a Reply

To post to the forums you must first login!


The Teller (TELER) 150000 8.00 (0.00)          The Odyssey H$115 Call (ODYSE.CA) 25000 2.00 (0.00)          The Odyssey - Opening Weekend (ODYSE.OW) 100000 115.00 (0.00)          The Odyssey - Opening Weekend (ODYSE.OW) 100000 115.00 (0.00)          The Odyssey H$115 Call (ODYSE.CA) 25000 2.00 (0.00)          Minions & Monsters (MNIO3) 150000 299.05 (-5.84)          The Teller (TELER) 150000 8.00 (0.00)          Minions & Monsters (MNIO3) 150000 299.05 (-5.84)          The Odyssey H$115 Call (ODYSE.CA) 25000 2.00 (0.00)          The Odyssey - Opening Weekend (ODYSE.OW) 100000 115.00 (0.00)          The Odyssey - Opening Weekend (ODYSE.OW) 100000 115.00 (0.00)          Minions & Monsters (MNIO3) 30000 299.05 (-5.84)          The Odyssey H$115 Call (ODYSE.CA) 25000 2.00 (0.00)          The Furious (FURIS) 150000 6.39 (-0.10)          Young Washington H$10 Put (YWASH.PU) 25000 1.13 (+0.02)          Young Washington H$10 Call (YWASH.CA) 25000 3.84 (+0.27)          Corporate Retreat (CRPRT) 150000 2.04 (-0.06)          Corporate Retreat (CRPRT) 150000 2.04 (-0.06)          Minions & Monsters (MNIO3) 1 299.05 (-5.84)          Minions & Monsters (MNIO3) 149999 299.05 (-5.84)          The Comebacker (CMBAC) 150000 26.72 (+1.85)          Paddington 4 (PADT4) 150000 34.05 (-1.28)          Lucky Strike (LCKYS) 150000 3.23 (-0.31)          Lucky Strike (LCKYS) 150000 3.23 (-0.31)          Moana (MOAN1) 34975 225.53 (-2.27)          Gravity Rush (GRVTR) 150000 7.97 (0.00)          Minions & Monsters (MNIO3) 100 299.05 (-5.84)          Disclosure Day (SKIES) 1 102.62 (-0.14)          Moana (MOAN1) 34975 225.53 (-2.27)          Disclosure Day (SKIES) 150000 102.62 (-0.14)          The Odyssey H$115 Call (ODYSE.CA) 25000 2.00 (0.00)          The Odyssey H$115 Put (ODYSE.PU) 25000 2.00 (0.00)          The Odyssey H$115 Call (ODYSE.CA) 25000 2.00 (0.00)          The Odyssey - Opening Weekend (ODYSE.OW) 99117 115.00 (0.00)          The Teller (TELER) 150000 8.00 (0.00)          The Teller (TELER) 149992 8.00 (0.00)          Iron Boy (IRONB) 150000 1.94 (-0.06)          Minions & Monsters (MNIO3) 50000 299.05 (-5.84)          The Teller (TELER) 150000 8.00 (0.00)          The Comebacker (CMBAC) 149996 26.72 (+1.85)          The Comebacker (CMBAC) 149992 26.72 (+1.85)          Corporate Retreat (CRPRT) 150000 2.04 (-0.06)          Corporate Retreat (CRPRT) 150000 2.04 (-0.06)          Minions & Monsters (MNIO3) 150000 299.05 (-5.84)          Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Up (TOXIC) 150000 3.22 (+0.50)          Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Up (TOXIC) 150000 3.22 (+0.50)          Clarissa (CLRIS) 150000 4.07 (+0.61)          Clarissa (CLRIS) 150000 4.07 (+0.61)          Affection (AFECT) 149999 0.17 (-0.01)          The Wizard of the Kremlin (WZKRM) 150000 1.80 (-0.01)