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Momentum and Carry: An Unexpected Friendship

Download PDF A Match made in Heaven In this article, we aim to integrate the momentum and carry factors to devise a strategy that enhances risk-adjusted returns. The underlying concept is straightforward. We seek to avoid positions with negative carry. Even with a momentum signal prompting us to go long Read more…

By BSIC, 1 year25 February 2024 ago
Markets

What is the effect of interest rates on Commodities Markets?

Download PDF Commodity futures have become a widespread vehicle amongst investors and traders as they can be used for strategic and tactical asset allocation. The strategic appeal of commodity indices comes from the equity-like return, their key diversification role, and their inflation-hedging properties. The term structure of commodities usually refers Read more…

By BSIC, 1 year3 December 2023 ago
Markets

Exploring Dairy Futures and Options

Download PDF An Introduction to the Dairy Industry The dairy industry’s global value in 2022 was around $893 billion and is projected to grow $1243 billion by 2028 having witnessed strong growth in the past years with a strong likelihood for that momentum to continue. It is currently facing some Read more…

By BSIC, 2 years8 October 2023 ago
Markets

Exploring Crypto Primitives: Perpetual Futures and Inverse Contracts

Download PDF In the past few years, cryptocurrencies have made the headlines on many different occasions and many think that they are here to stay, for better or worse. Regardless of their social impact, we believe that they have introduced interesting contrasts to traditional finance in their market microstructures. In Read more…

By BSIC, 2 years4 December 2022 ago
Markets

Bond Liquidity, Volatility and Basis Trading

Download PDF Introduction In 2022, rates traders have had to navigate a landscape of deteriorating liquidity in sovereign debt markets. Over the past few years, there have been multiple episodes of severe illiquidity in US Treasuries and related markets. Firstly, US repo rates spiked in September 2019, with intraday secured Read more…

By BSIC, 3 years13 November 2022 ago
Markets

Systematically Trading Volatility Spreads

Download PDF Introduction The following article is heavily inspired by the paper “Investment Strategies with VIX and VSTOXX” (Stanescu, Tunaru, 2012) which analyzed different volatility trading strategies. The strategies are either based on a simple signal or the forecasting of spreads through GARCH models. After analyzing a more recent dataset Read more…

By BSIC, 3 years25 September 2022 ago
Markets

Trading the Italian Political Instability

Download PDF Introduction On the 25th of September Italian citizens are going to vote for their representatives in the parliament. Based on the current macroeconomic and political scenario, we analyze the effects that the elections’ results might have on the markets and propose a trade idea based on the BTP-Bund Read more…

By BSIC, 3 years18 September 2022 ago
Markets Old Articles

What’s wrong McFly? Chicken? Back to the Bitcoin Futures

Introduction The purpose of this article is to analyse different futures markets on cryptocurrencies and try to find justifications for excessive premia and discrepancies in prices. Firstly, we are going to present a general overview on cryptocurrencies and futures, then a short analysis of premia and finally we’ll look at Read more…

By BSIC, 7 years25 February 2018 ago
Commodities Markets Old Articles

WTI Crude Oil: Backwardation? No, Back to Contango

On March 8, 2017 crude oil plummeted more than 5%, with WTI price falling through $50 a barrel for the first time since December. The sudden move was triggered by EIA reporting a massive build-up in American crude oil inventories, hitting record levels according to data going back to 1982. Read more…

By BSIC, 8 years12 March 2017 ago
Currencies Markets Old Articles Trade Ideas

How to Manipulate the Bitcoin Market (2/3)

This article is the follow up to “How to Manipulate the Bitcoin Market (1/3)”. In the second part, we want to show how the spikes in price between the end of May and the first half of June 2016 were the result of just a few investors who used huge Read more…

By BSIC, 9 years9 October 2016 ago
Equity Indices Macroeconomy Markets Old Articles

China: a hot summer

In our May article (https://bsic.it/chinese-divergence-real-vs-financial/), we underlined how many difficulties China faced. We also analysed the development of a stock market bubble in the Shanghai Composite equity index (SHCOMP) and in the Shenzhen CSI 300 (SHSZ300) equity index. This summer saw that bubble bursting. The SHCOMP was trading at 3,185 Read more…

By BSIC, 10 years26 September 2015 ago
Markets Old Articles Trade Ideas

Oil: quo vadis?

Brent and WTI are the two most largely traded qualities of Oil. We will see that they are different not only in the quality and price, but also in the main drivers of their performance. Brent is a relatively light and sweet quality, originally extracted in the Northern Sea and Read more…

By BSIC, 11 years15 March 2014 ago
Latest BSIC News Old Articles

RITC: The interview!

From the 18th to the 21st of February, BSIC represented Bocconi at the Rotman International Trading Competition. Our team ranked 6th out of 50 teams, standing out among the world’s top universities. We were indeed proud to interview them in order to get a flavour of their exciting experience in Read more…

By BSIC, 11 years1 March 2014 ago
Commodities Macroeconomic Views Markets Old Articles Trade Ideas

The Onion Paradox or Why Futures are Good for the Economy

History is full of surprises, even regarding financial history. For example do you know that the only futures contracts you cannot trade are the ones on onions? This is not a joke but a serious piece of law, the Onion Futures Act passed on august 1958. Indeed in 1955, two Read more…

By BSIC, 11 years8 December 2013 ago
Equity Indices Markets Old Articles Trade Ideas

Trade idea: Long Eurostoxx 50

Trade idea:  Long Eurostoxx 50 We believe that the current bullish sentiment can continue in the short term so we suggest to take a long position in the risky assets that have been underperforming during the recent weeks and that did not break out their recent highs. Scanning the markets Read more…

By BSIC, 12 years9 March 2013 ago

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