Energy futures prices: term structure models with Kalman filter estimation

We present a class of multi-factor stochastic models for energy futures prices, similar to the interest rate futures models recently formulated by Heath. We do not postulate directly the risk-neutral processes followed by futures prices, but define energy futures prices in terms of a spot price, not directly observable, driven by several stochastic factors. Our formulation leads to an expression for futures prices which is well suited to the application of Kalman filtering techniques together with maximum likelihood estimation methods. Based on these techniques, we perform an empirical study of a one- and a two-factor model for futures prices for natural gas.     

基于高频数据的中国国债期货价格发现能力研究

期货的价格发现能力是近几年国际学术界关注的热点问题,但目前理论界相关研究主要集中于商品期货和股指期货,尚缺乏专门针对中国国债期货价格发现方面的研究。随着中国5年期国债期货于2013年9月上市交易,深入研究中国市场结构下的国债期货价格发现能力有助于从微观视角掌握与其它期货品种内在运行规律的差异性。本文运用中国5年期国债期货上市交易后的5分钟高频数据,采取向量误差修正(VECM)模型和Granger因果关系检验等计量分析方法检验中国国债期货与现货价格之间的关系,并创新性地使用共同因子贡献法和信息份额法分析我国国债期货市场与现货市场对价格发现功能的贡献程度。结果表明,中国国债期货价格与现货价格之间存在长期协整关系。中国国债期货价格是现货价格的Granger成因,且两者之间存在单向的价格引导关系。同时通过实证得出中国国债期货市场在对价格发现的贡献程度上占主导地位的结论。     

中国玉米期货市场价格发现功能的实证分析

利用相关系数、协整检验、格兰杰因果检验以及GS模型等方法对大连期货交易所玉米期货市场的发现价格功能进行了实证分析.结果表明:玉米期货价格与现货价格之间存在协整关系,期货价格具有良好的发现价格功能;存在期货价格和现货价格的双向格兰杰引导关系;玉米期货市场的发现价格功能中期货价格起着决定性的作用.     

天然气期货和现货价格间的相关性研究

基于天然气期货价格与现货价格序列间具有强非线性特征,本文将GARCH模型和Copula函数思想进行结合,同时考虑了天然气期货和现货价格间的时变相关结构,构建了时变Copula(GARCH-Normal、GARCH-GED和GARCH-t)模型,利用美国纽约商品交易所(NYMEX)Henry Hub交易中心天然气期货价格和现货价格数据进行实证研究。实证结果表明:GARCH-GED模型能够准确地拟合天然气期货与现货价格时间序列;时变SJC-Copula函数能够更好的描述天然气期货价格与现货价格间的相关性;天然气期货与现货价格间的相关性不是对称的,上尾的相关性小于下尾相的相关性。     

碳市场EUA与CER 期货价格变动关系的实证研究

基于VAR模型,对碳市场中的EUA期货价格和CER期货价格的变动关系进行了实证研究．选取欧洲气候交易所（ECX）的EUA期货价格和CER期货价格作为研究对象,运用Johansen协整检验、Granger因果关系检验、向量误差修正模型、广义脉冲响应函数和方差分解方法形成递进式的计量分析框架．研究结果表明：第一,EUA期货价格与CER期货价格之间存在着相互影响关系;第二,CER期货价格对市场信息的反映比EUA期货价格更为敏感,反映速度更快;第三,两种价格之间,CER期货价格变动的影响起主导作用,更好地发挥了期货的定价功能,两市场间存在杠杆效应．     

A mean reverting process for pricing treasury bills and futures contracts

An analytically tractable, discrete-time single-factor model is developed for valuing treasury bills and futures contracts. It uses a multiplicative binomial foward process that creates neither negative nor implausibly large positive interest factors, and which can incorporate different possible degrees of mean reversion. The paper derives explicit formulae for bill prices, futures prices, their conditional variances and risk premia in a setting that relates the evolution of the term structure more closely to both model and data than do other similar works. In contrast to other term-structure constrained models, this paper emphasizes that in a one-factor model the martingale probabilities cannot be treated independently of the perturbation functions. The paper's empirical methods also differ from the customary approaches. Instead of comparing differences between model-predicted and observed prices, the paper applies ARCH methodology to test model-predicted ratios of conditional variances to risk premia. Our tests find influences exogenous to the model, but these factors do not seem capable of being explained with two-factor models using only interest rates.     

我国铝期货、铝现货与废铝价格动态关系的实证研究

利用Johansen协整检验、Granger因果检验以及向量误差修正(VEC)模型、脉冲响应分析和方差分解分析,从三个不同的角度对我国铝期货、铝现货和废铝市场价格间的动态关系进行了实证分析,研究结果表明:从引导关系看,铝期货价格与铝现货价格之间具有协整关系,并且铝期货价格对铝现货价格及废铝价格具有单向价格引导关系,铝现货价格对废铝价格具有单向价格引导关系;从冲击反应看,铝期货对铝现货的冲击比较强烈,而铝期货对废铝以及铝现货对废铝的冲击相对比较和缓;从价格发现程度看,铝期货市场具有最强的价格发现能力,铝现货价格发现能力次之,废铝的价格发现能力最弱,表明铝期货是价格发现过程的主要驱动力量.     

Price limits and capital requirements of futures clearinghouses

Futures clearinghouses need capital to provide liquidity in case of default by clearing members. Price limits truncate observed futures prices and prevent observation of clearinghouses’ true default risk exposure. We show how to estimate the true default risk exposure from observed futures prices and model capital requirements using an option pricing model, which accounts for non-normality of and truncation in observed futures returns. We apply the model to the clearinghouse associated with the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange, compare required capital levels with actual capital levels and show that ignoring non-normality of futures returns causes overall capital requirements to be significantly underestimated.     

郑州白糖期货的因果图分析

主要探讨郑州白糖期货价、纽约白糖期货价和郑州白糖现货价格三者之间的动态关系,利用图模型方法、多维的多元线性回归等方法来分析它们之间的相互影响关系.又由于三者之间的关系受到牛市、熊市等市场因素的影响,故在熊市、牛市和震荡市三种情况下分别探讨三者的关联性.结果显示:不论市场是熊市还是牛市或者是震荡市,郑州白糖期货价都受到纽约白糖期货价的影响作用,郑州白糖现货价都受到郑州白糖期货价的影响;在市场为牛市时,纽约白糖期货价对郑州白糖现货价有显著影响.     

Stochastic Models for Oil Prices and the Pricing of Futures on Oil

Abstract

In this article, we investigate and compare the performance of various one-factor diffusion models in their ability to capture the behaviour of Brent crude oil prices. New proposed models, which have a three-quarters power in the diffusion term, are found to outperform all other popular models tested. Analytic solutions for futures prices under the new models are found and used to calibrate market prices. Results from the calibration show that one of the new three-quarters models with a mean-reverting property outperforms other popular models in fitting and forecasting futures prices.     

期货市场中持仓量及参与者对资产价格的影响研究

本文通过建立一个期货市场的均衡模型,提出在具有套保需求和有限风险承受能力的前提下,期货价格能够预测未来资产价格变动的方向,持仓量能够辅助预测未来资产价格变动的剧烈程度;此外,市场中不知情投机者具有风险调整市场收益的作用,不知情套保者的参与能够稳定市场。对于持仓量是否能够辅助预测未来资产价格变动的剧烈程度,本文利用中国商品期货市场数据进行了实证检验,结果表明与理论研究的结论一致。     

Electricity pool prices: long-term uncertainty characterization for futures-market trading and risk management

Organized trading for electricity includes both the pool and the futures market. Pool prices are volatile while the prices of the futures-market products are comparatively more stable. Thus, futures-market products constitute hedging instruments to reduce the risk suffered by any market agent. Electricity market agents engage in both pool and futures market transactions seeking to maximize their respective profits/utilities for a given risk level on profit variability. To make informed decisions, the market agent must gather as much accurate information as possible on the pool prices covering the whole time horizon spanned by the futures-market product. This paper provides a novel technique to represent conveniently the uncertainty associated with pool prices during long- or medium-term horizons through a set of scenarios, that is, pool price realizations. The proposed technique uses the prices of the futures-market products as long-term explanatory variables and exploits the short-term structure of the pool prices.     

基于便利收益的商品期货套期保值策略研究

依据便利收益是商品现货与期货长期均衡关系的主要影响因素,研究商品便利收益对商品期货套期保值策略的影响。通过求解最大化期望效用的套期保值决策模型,得到了最优套期保值比率的封闭解,并且提出了以便利收益为修正因子的ECT-GARCH模型,同时选取2005年01月到2013年10月期间沪铝现货和期货数据进行实证分析。研究发现:便利收益的波动性与套期保值比率呈负相关,在套期保值比率估计精度和套期保值绩效方面,ECT-GARCH模型均优于B-GARCH模型和ECM-GARCH模型。     

基于二次优化BP神经网络的期货价格预测

针对BP算法存在的不足,结合神经网络、遗传算法和主成分分析的优点,提出基于二次优化BP神经网络的期货价格预测算法.初次优化采用主成分分析法对网络结构进行优化,第二次优化采用自适应遗传算法对网络参数进行优化,将经过二次优化后建立的BP神经网络模型用于期货价格预测.经仿真检验,用新方法建立的模型对期货价格进行预测,在预测的精度和速度方面都优于单纯BP神经网络模型.     

关联规则及其在石油期货价格预测中的应用研究

针对Apriori算法及其变种的不足,提出了一种基于支持度计数矩阵和事务数据库布尔矩阵的新算法,利用此算法挖掘石油期货价格历史数据中的频繁项集,根据给定的最小支持度和最小置信度从挖掘结果产生关联规则,对关联规则在石油期货价格预测中的应用进行了探索,并提出了进一步的研究方向.     

上海燃料油期货市场价格发现功能的实证研究

本文利用协整检验、Granger因果检验、误差修正模型和Garbade-Silber模型对上海燃料油期货的价格发现功能进行了探讨,分析了期货与现货价格之间的相互关系,刻画了期货与现货市场在价格发现功能中作用的大小,并由此说明上海燃料油期货市场的效率。结果表明,燃料油的期货价格与现货价格之间存在协整关系,期货市场具有良好的价格发现功能,这对我国建设完整的石油期货市场具有指导意义。     

Forward Variance Dynamics: Bergomi’s Model Revisited

Abstract

In this article, we propose an arbitrage-free modelling framework for the joint dynamics of forward variance along with the underlying index, which can be seen as a combination of the two approaches proposed by Bergomi. The difference between our modelling framework and the Bergomi (2008. Smile dynamics III. Risk, October, 90–96) models is mainly the ability to compute the prices of VIX futures and options by using semi-analytic formulas. Also, we can express the sensitivities of the prices of VIX futures and options with respect to the model parameters, which enables us to propose an efficient and easy calibration to the VIX futures and options. The calibrated model allows to Delta-hedge VIX options by trading in VIX futures, the corresponding hedge ratios can be computed analytically.     

Simulating Financial Prices

A method is described for simulating daily financial prices using appropriate statistical models. Simulated open, high, low and close prices can be obtained. These simulated prices are required for a rigorous evaluation of trading systems. Appropriate software based on the models has been used by a futures trader to improve his trading decisions.     

Eurodollar futures pricing in log-normal interest rate models in discrete time

We demonstrate the appearance of explosions in three quantities in interest rate models with log-normally distributed rates in discrete time. (1) The expectation of the money market account in the Black, Derman, Toy model, (2) the prices of Eurodollar futures contracts in a model with log-normally distributed rates in the terminal measure and (3) the prices of Eurodollar futures contracts in the one-factor log-normal Libor market model (LMM). We derive exact upper and lower bounds on the prices and on the standard deviation of the Monte Carlo pricing of Eurodollar futures in the one factor log-normal Libor market model. These bounds explode at a non-zero value of volatility, and thus imply a limitation on the applicability of the LMM and on its Monte Carlo simulation to sufficiently low volatilities.     

中国棉花期货市场价格发现功能研究

期货市场和现货市场之间的价格发现功能一直是监管部门和投资者十分关心的问题。本文借助信息共享模型、脉冲响应函数和方差分解等方法，对中国棉花期货市场和现货市场的价格关系进行了实证研究。研究结果表明：棉花期货价格和现货价格之间存在显著的双向引导关系和长期均衡关系；期货市场和现货市场都扮演价格发现角色，且期货市场在价格发现中处于主导地位。