As the Stock index futures with Cri 300 index for the subject matter launch, the research to stock options done by China’s financial market is gradually in-depth, which has great significance to the improvement of the financial markets. With the Black-Scholes option formula, this paper attempts to study the sensitivity of single stock’ call option named Industrial and Commercial Bank of China L...

"Pentagon Prepares a Futures Market on Terror Attacks" blared the headline in the New York Times above an article on the Pentagon's "policy analysis market" (PAM) project. The Pentagon intended to employ a "virtual stock market" — for the aggregation of information and derivation of forecasts — to help predict foreign-policy events such as a coup d'état in a particular country or terrorist atta...

The application of deep learning approaches to finance has received a great deal of attention from both investors and researchers. This study presents a novel deep learning framework where wavelet transforms (WT), stacked autoencoders (SAEs) and long-short term memory (LSTM) are combined for stock price forecasting. The SAEs for hierarchically extracted deep features is introduced into stock pr...

After credit risk, liquidity risk is probably the next most important risk faced by the finance industry; and yet the study of liquidity is far less advanced. This may be in part due to the fact that there is no agreed definition of what liquidity is, even in qualitative terms; everyone would agree that the effect of illiquidity is to make it difficult or costly to trade large volumes of the un...

Coffee is both an important source of export revenue for developing countries and the underlying asset for the largest futures markets in soft commodities. This paper examines the interdependence of these spot and futures markets, with particular emphasis on the effect futures trading activity, especially speculative behaviour, has on the price risk in spot markets. We identify change points as...

This paper presents an overview of how single stock futures (SSF) have developed since their introduction in the United States. We present a number of reasons why individual investor interest in SSF may not have reached its potential. Individual investors should note SSF volumes are very low and implied interest rates indicate that SSF settlement prices often have little relation to their respe...

This article offers a new conceptual framework for modeling and measurement of systemic risk factors at individual institutions level. The empirical results show that, there are strong negative correlations between domestic futures market with systemic risk factors. Domestic futures exposed to systemic risk. Further research should take into account such international risk exposure.

After credit risk, liquidity risk is probably the next most important risk faced by the finance industry; and yet the study of liquidity is far less advanced. This may be in part due to the fact that there is no agreed definition of what liquidity is, even in qualitative terms; everyone would agree that the effect of illiquidity is to make it difficult or costly to trade large volumes of the un...