Gontran de Quillacq was a portfolio manager/derivatives trader for 20 years, trading most forms of derivatives, managing various proprietary trading strategies. His success in a private matter, his wide investment knowledge, his communication skills and performance on the stand attracted attention,
White Collar Crime
Originally published on HGExperts.com.
This article explains the hush-hush losses among statistical arbitragers. Statarbers are exposed to factors, which have been dispersing recently, and so should the statarbers. The likely soluton is that large redemptions are taking place, starting by the quant-equity managers, the risk-parity programs and the highly leveraged large multi-strategy hedge funds.
Recent market moves are extreme, but such events are far from rare. Actually, they are quite frequent. Nevertheless investors (from modest to institutional) sell insurances against market crashes, and repeatedly lose institutional amount of money. Malachite Capital, a $600m NY hedge fund, has been selling tail risk in various forms in extremely large quantities. They just announced that they are in default. Problem, their positions are so large, that they might take several broker-dealers with them.
The market events of the last week have been drastic, not only in movements, but also in volatility surface deformation. Bridgewater's purchase of 1,000,000 lot of options as a hedge is probably a cause of the current volatility
The investment world and the financial medias are abuzz with the USD yield curve and its growing flattening/inversion, and for good reasons. Here is why.
There is much to be said about the February 5th losses on the leveraged VIX ETF options.
