Variance swap trading strategies
FINCAD offers the most transparent solutions in the industry, providing extensive documentation with every product. This is complemented by an extensive library of white papers, articles and case studies. Traditionally, investors gain exposure to the market's volatility through standard call and put options, derivatives that also depend on the variance level of the underlying asset. Trading trading derivatives on variance and volatility, investors can take views on the future realized volatility directly. The simplest such instruments are variance and variance swaps. A volatility swap is a forward contract on future realized price volatility. Similarly, a variance swap is a forward contract on future realized price variance, variance being the square of volatility. In both cases, at inception of the trade, the strategies is usually chosen such that the fair value of the swap is zero. This strike is then referred to as fair volatility or fair variance, respectively. At expiry the receiver of the floating leg pays or owes the difference between the realized variance or volatility and the agreed-upon strike, times some notional amount which is not exchanged. Both swaps provide "pure" exposure to volatility alone, unlike vanilla options in which the volatility exposure variance on the price of the underlying asset. These swaps can thus be used to speculate on future realized volatility, to trade the spread between realized and implied volatility, or to hedge the volatility exposure of other positions. Variance swaps are theoretically simpler than volatility swaps; they can be hedged with a static position in Strategies call and put options with suitably chosen strikestogether with a dynamic position in the underlying asset. Volatility swaps, on the other hand strategies only be hedged with a dynamic portfolio of European options. But the fact that the instruments may be hedged implies that they may be valued in a model-independent manner. The price can be calculated from market-observed prices of European options of different strikes, thus the effects of the volatility smile are accounted for by construction. Variance swaps can be replicated using a static portfolio of European vanilla options, along with an equity position. For this reason, variance swaps are more popular than volatility swaps - for which there exist only approximate static replication strategies. The variance swap strategies is accomplished using a portfolio of options with different strikes. The construction of this portfolio can be understood intuitively in the Black-Scholes model - the sensitivity of a European option to the variance of the underlying asset price depends on the asset price. This "variance vega" is largest when the underlying price is closest to the strike of the option, and is also an increasing function of the strike. The variance vega of a portfolio of options that replicates the variance swap payoff must be independent of the trading price. To achieve this, each option has to be weighted by the inverse of the strike squared. The variance exposure of the portfolio is largely independent of the underlying asset price, as long as the price lies within the range of option strikes. That is, as the spacing between strikes is decreased and variance range of strikes in the options portfolio increases, the variance exposure becomes entirely independent of the underlying stock price. The rigorous derivation shows that such a portfolio swap replicates the payoff of a variance swap. FINCAD Analytics also value variance and volatility swaps in the Heston model. To find out more information about FINCAD products and services, contact a FINCAD Representative. FINCAD is the leading provider of sophisticated valuation and risk analytics trading multi-asset derivative and fixed income portfolios. FINCAD helps over 1, global financial institutions enhance returns, manage risk, reduce costs, comply with regulations, and provide confidence to investors and shareholders. Clients include leading asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies, pensions, banks and auditors. Solutions Technology Services Resources Partners About FINCAD. Variance and Volatility Swaps. Technical Details Variance swaps are theoretically simpler than volatility swaps; they can be hedged with a static position in European call and put options with suitably chosen strikestogether with a dynamic position in the underlying asset. Analysis Supported FINCAD variance swap volatility swap functions can swap used for the following analysis: The next generation of powerful valuation and risk solutions is here. Portfolio valuation and risk analytics for swap derivatives and fixed income. Stay up-to-date with our Quarterly newsletter. Vancouver New York London Dublin. 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