Mock 1 Flashcards
The main use of aluminium is:
Transport
When a clearing house is independent and a member defaults, whose resources are used to cover the default?
The clearing house
FRA: Forward Rate Agreement
An OTC forward contract that determines an interest rate to be paid or received on an obligation beginning at a start date sometime in the future
On which exchange are traded average price options (TAPOs) available?
LME
Delta
is a measure of a change in price of the option premium relative to a change in the price of the underlying asset.
Hedgers are MOST affected by:
Changes in basis
What is the benefit of trading OTC?
Flexibility
How would you hedge your equity position?
Take the opposite position in your equity futures to the one you hold in equity itself
Which of the following is most likely to only act as a price taker?
Asset manager
A clearing house is likely to reduce the level of initial margin if which of the following occurs?
The contract volatility decreases
The purchase of a futures contract at the same time as the sale of the underlying asset in the cash market is best described as:
Basis trading
Which of the following is true of equity warrants?
Some issues may be exercised on a daily basis
The subscription price is agreed at the time of issue
Which of the following describes a block trade?
A large deal conducted away from the previous market price
Which of the following BEST reflects the margin process on the theoretical inter-market margining system?
Premium margin plus risk margin
When does the premium of an option on an equity index need to be settled?
By the next business day
What is the motivation for conducting a horizontal spread with call options?
To profit from time decay
A broker must have a formal written agreement
in place to offer a credit line beyond 5 business days.
If short-term interest rates were expected to fall, what effect would this have on the spread between two delivery months on a futures contract with an underlying asset in good supply?
Narrow
Which of the following futures contracts is not physically delivered?
Brent crude
What is tick value?
The product of multiplying tick size by contract size
The profit or loss caused by a one tick movement in price on one futures contract
Which of the following exchanges using the electronic order book system called Select?
LME
Which ONE of the following represents the normal procedure for a derivatives transaction?
Client A, Broker A, Broker B, Matching, Clearing
If a member does not want the automatic exercise of in-the-money options on expiry, who needs to be notified?
No one. Automatic exercise is an ‘opt-in’ facility
The market suddenly becomes more volatile causing the price of futures contracts to drop sharply. Which of the following types of margin will be required from a member with a large long futures position?
Intra day
A short hedger of crude oil futures is all of the following except:
Long of the future and short cash crude oil
diagonal spread
different strike prices and different expiries.
On which of the following exchanges are energy derivatives traded?
NYMEX
ICE
An investor performs an arbitrage trade to profit from a price discrepancy between a Brent crude oil future and a refined oil future. What type of arbitrage trade is this?
Value-chain
When is collateral for OTC traded options most likely to be called?
If the option moves in-the-money
Gold, silver, copper and crude oil contracts are available in the US on which of the following exchanges?
CME
Which of the following best represents the benefits of a covered short put position?
Extra return in a stable market and some protection from a rising market
Which of the following statements are true in respect of maintenance margin?
It is a system of margining operated by a number of derivative exchanges, particularly in the US
When an account falls to the maintenance margin level, it must be replenished by the client up to the original initial margin level
Maintenance margin arrangements can be operated in the UK between brokers and their clients