Lecture 03 : Uncertainty in Financial Markets : Idea of Hedging — Transcript
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- 0:01[Music]
- 0:22[Music]
- 0:27welcome to the third lecture of
- 0:30artificial intelligence for
- 0:32economics in this segment that is in the
- 0:34next couple of lectures we'll deal with
- 0:37uncertainty in financial markets or
- 0:39modeling
- 0:40uncertainty now in artificial
- 0:43intelligence uh a a key idea is to train
- 0:48an agent to behave optimally in
- 0:51environment where the outcomes are
- 0:55uncertain and in economics
- 0:58uncertainty uh is is in integral
- 1:01part so in the next couple of lectures
- 1:03we'll deal with uncertainty in financial
- 1:06Market markets
- 1:08especially the idea of
- 1:10hedging and
- 1:13risk great so let's get
- 1:17started let's start with a very simple
- 1:20example of cricket
- 1:22betting the T20 World Cup is coming up
- 1:25so uh you can you all of you must be
- 1:28excited about cricket
- 1:30so let's consider a following scenario
- 1:32let's say an India versus Australia
- 1:34cricket match is
- 1:36happening okay and there are two
- 1:38counters you have entered a room and
- 1:40there are two
- 1:41counters in counter one verat bets on
- 1:47India and offers the following bet 25 is
- 1:50to 1 what does this
- 1:52mean what does this mean it simply means
- 1:55that if uh I bet rupe 1 with V and verat
- 2:01is betting on India so it means that
- 2:04verat is hoping that India is going to
- 2:06win so if I bet rupe 1 with verat and
- 2:10Australia
- 2:12wins okay so I'm betting rupe 1 with
- 2:15verat that Australia will win and
- 2:17Australia indeed
- 2:19wins then verat will pay me 25
- 2:23rupees and if India wins I will pay
- 2:26verat one
- 2:27rupee so this is the
- 2:30uh bet a contract we can get into that's
- 2:34what he's
- 2:36offering in the other counter there is
- 2:39Steve Steve on the other hand bets on
- 2:41Australia so Steve Steve bets that
- 2:44Australia is going to win win and he
- 2:46offers offers a bet of 6 is to5 so what
- 2:50does that mean it means that if I bet
- 2:52rupee 1 with
- 2:55Steve that India will win and India
- 2:57indeed wins then Steve will pay me 6X
- 3:02five rupees and if Australia wins I will
- 3:05pay Steve one
- 3:07rupee okay so this is the
- 3:10scenario I have 100 rupees in my wallet
- 3:13and I've entered the
- 3:16room so what should I do should I bet
- 3:20with
- 3:21verat should I bet against verat or
- 3:25should I bet against
- 3:26Steve which counter should I go to and
- 3:29place my bet
- 3:31okay let's see so if I bet all my money
- 3:34on verat against
- 3:36verat okay that is I bet all my money on
- 3:39Australia
- 3:41winning then what is my
- 3:43payoff if Australia indeed wins then
- 3:46verat will pay me 2500
- 3:49rupees but if India wins then I'll have
- 3:53to pay verat 100
- 3:56rupees right so my payoff isus 100 if
- 3:59India
- 4:01on the other hand if I bet all my money
- 4:04on India that is I bet against
- 4:07Steve then what's going to be my payoff
- 4:10if India wins that is if Steve loses the
- 4:13BET then Steve will pay me 6x5 into 100
- 4:17remember he was paying 6x5 rupees for
- 4:19every rupee bet so if 100 rupees of bet
- 4:23is placed on the table he's going to pay
- 4:25me 6x5 into 100 that's
- 4:27120 but if Australia
- 4:30wins then I will have to pay Steve the
- 4:35money which I was betting which is 100
- 4:38rupees great so these are my two options
- 4:40I can either go to Steve or I can go to
- 4:43verat but there is an inherent
- 4:45limitation with both these
- 4:47options what is
- 4:50that these are win all lose all
- 4:54options in the worst possible outcome I
- 4:57will lose all my money
- 5:02right
- 5:04now uh that's a little harsh I don't
- 5:07want that I don't want to lose all my
- 5:09money that's too much of a risk I don't
- 5:12want that can I mitigate my risk can I
- 5:16eliminate this risk that's the next uh
- 5:20that's the question I would want to
- 5:22address that can I eliminate this risk
- 5:25that in the worst possible case I will
- 5:26lose all my money
- 5:29let's see if I can do
- 5:32that let's consider this let's say I bet
- 5:36an x amount of money against
- 5:40verat and 100 - x amount of money
- 5:43against
- 5:45Steve okay great now let's see what's
- 5:48going to
- 5:49happen now I've bet X Rupees against
- 5:52verat
- 5:54right so if Australia wins when I'm
- 5:58betting against verat what am I saying
- 6:00I'm saying that if Australia wins you
- 6:03will pay me
- 6:0625x right so uh I put X on the table and
- 6:11Australia wins verat pays me 25x so I
- 6:14get back
- 6:1726x and against uh minus of course uh
- 6:21100 which uh I have put on the
- 6:25table right because I'm losing the bet
- 6:27against Steve
- 6:30so if Australia wins I'm winning the bet
- 6:33against verat only and I'm losing the
- 6:36bet against
- 6:38Steve so what is my net payoff my net
- 6:41payoff is 26x which I have with me minus
- 6:45the 100 rupees which I which I put on
- 6:47both the tables put
- 6:49together right similarly if India wins
- 6:53what will be my
- 6:55payoff if India wins I lose the bet
- 6:58against ver
- 7:00but I win the bet against
- 7:03Steve but how much will Steve pay me for
- 7:05this bet so Steve is going to pay me
- 7:08Steve will pay me this much and this was
- 7:11the original amount which I put on the
- 7:13table so I will get all this for
- 7:16myself and 100 was the money I
- 7:21bet okay so this is my payoff so this is
- 7:24my payoff net payoff if India wins this
- 7:27is my net payoff if Australia
- 7:30wins
- 7:32okay
- 7:34great now is it possible that I will
- 7:38make positive
- 7:40profits no matter who
- 7:42wins is that a
- 7:45possibility let's
- 7:47see when is my profit if India wins this
- 7:52is my profit of India wins 26x - 100
- 7:56when is this
- 7:57positive when X is greater than
- 8:003.85 this
- 8:04one when austr uh when India wins what
- 8:07is my payoff this is my the first is my
- 8:10payoff when Australia wins when India
- 8:12wins this is my
- 8:14payoff now when will this be positive
- 8:17this is always positive if x is less
- 8:19than
- 8:2854.55% lies in this interval 3.85 to
- 8:3154.55%
- 8:51[Music]
- 9:00I'm actually betting on
- 9:04both and thereby I'm reducing my
- 9:09risk okay and X is the amount I'm
- 9:13betting with
- 9:14verat so if that lies in this particular
- 9:17interval we see that I I will make a
- 9:20positive profit no matter which team
- 9:23wins okay so now I have zero
- 9:27risk in the previous
- 9:30uh slide we saw that we had huge risk I
- 9:33ran the risk of losing all my
- 9:36money but now I see that I will not lose
- 9:40even a single
- 9:42penny Okay no matter which team wins so
- 9:45I have completely eliminated my
- 9:49risk very
- 9:51good let's move
- 9:54on so if you just graphically plot it
- 9:58you can see the yellow line is the
- 10:02payoff if Australia wins it's a it's
- 10:06it's a it's a profit function is a
- 10:07function of
- 10:09X the X which I choose so remember what
- 10:13is X x is the amount I'm betting against
- 10:16verat 100 - x is the amount I'm betting
- 10:18against Steve so the yellow line is the
- 10:21profit function as a function of
- 10:24X when Australia wins the blue line is
- 10:29the profit as a function of x if India
- 10:33wins
- 10:35okay fantastic and we see that if uh X
- 10:41lies between 3.85 and 54.55%
- 11:01fine so my next question would be okay I
- 11:05can choose an X between 3.85 and 54.55%
- 11:30right that's the next question which we
- 11:31would want to answer we have eliminated
- 11:34our risk great now we want to figure out
- 11:37given that we have eliminated the risk
- 11:39what is the maximum we can earn maximum
- 11:42risk-free gain which we can have that's
- 11:45our next objective NE next natural
- 11:48objective okay so let's see by the way
- 11:51what is the minimum guaranteed profit if
- 11:54we go back to the previous
- 11:55slide look at the diagram so let's say x
- 11:58is here let's let's say this is
- 12:014.5 okay if Australia wins what is my
- 12:05payoff my payoff is this
- 12:07much and if India wins what is my payoff
- 12:10my payoff is this
- 12:11much right so what is the minimum payoff
- 12:14which I'm going to get here it is this
- 12:17this payoff if Australia
- 12:22wins on the other hand if I'm here let's
- 12:24say this is 49 or
- 12:27whatever now the payoff if India wins is
- 12:30this
- 12:30much and if Australia wins the payoff is
- 12:33this
- 12:35much now what is the minimum guaranteed
- 12:37payoff it's this much the payoff if
- 12:41India wins here the minimum payoff is if
- 12:43Australia wins here the payoff is if
- 12:45India wins the minimum payoff the
- 12:48minimum guaranteed
- 12:49payoff and both are clearly
- 12:54positive so the minimum guaranteed
- 12:57profit function is this this this is my
- 13:00payoff if India wins sorry this is my
- 13:03payoff if Australia wins and this is my
- 13:05payoff if India
- 13:07wins right I hope you remember this from
- 13:11the previous slides this is my payoff if
- 13:13Australia wins this is my net payoff if
- 13:15India wins net
- 13:18profit right so this is if Australia
- 13:22wins this is if India
- 13:26wins and the minimum guaranteed payoff
- 13:28is the thus minimum of these two because
- 13:30I don't know who is going to
- 13:32win
- 13:34great and this is the minimum guaranteed
- 13:37payoff which I want to
- 13:39maximize so I'm the Gambler so what is
- 13:41my optimization problem the gambler's
- 13:44optimization
- 13:45problem well it is to maximize this
- 13:48minimum
- 13:50payoff in the risk-free interval which
- 13:53is X belonging to this
- 13:55interval right that's my optimization
- 13:57problem now
- 14:00correct great now if we solve this
- 14:03optimization problem we will see that
- 14:07this function this function which we
- 14:10have is
- 14:12maximized when the when the two
- 14:14arguments of the Min are
- 14:17equal
- 14:19okay and it turns out that it's
- 14:21maximized when X star is
- 14:277.80 okay that's the minimum gu if I
- 14:31that's the choice of X which will lead
- 14:33to the minimum guaranteed
- 14:37profit
- 14:38okay fine by the way if I choose xar
- 14:42equal to
- 14:457.8 what will be that risk-free
- 14:48profit well it'll simply be something
- 14:51like this if we calculate it'll simply
- 14:53be 26 into
- 14:567.80 - 100 and if we calculate it turns
- 15:00out to
- 15:03102
- 15:06okay and that's the minimum guaranteed
- 15:09profit which I can
- 15:12earn how much money did I have initially
- 15:15in my wallet 100 rupees and I see that
- 15:19if I enter enter the gambling room with
- 15:21100
- 15:22rupees and verat and Steve are offering
- 15:25the bets which they are
- 15:26offering then I can end up with 102
- 15:31rupees of guaranteed
- 15:33profit okay which is more than
- 15:37100% fantastic that is wonderful right
- 15:40and it's
- 15:43guaranteed
- 15:46okay so that's what we
- 15:49see xar is 7.8 and that gives me a 102
- 15:55that's my
- 15:57profit now
- 16:01let's understand these
- 16:03terms the idea which we saw here is the
- 16:06idea of mitigating or eliminating Risk
- 16:09by betting on both sides which I spoke
- 16:10about a few minutes
- 16:13earlier a strategy which generates
- 16:16guaranteed returns is called an
- 16:20arbitr
- 16:22okay now what is arbitrage Arbitrage is
- 16:27basically in a way find finding a
- 16:30loophole by the way can you can you tell
- 16:32me what's the loophole in the previous
- 16:35example which we just worked out why
- 16:37can't it exist in reality why can't two
- 16:40people offering such a bet in a gambling
- 16:42room it can't exist can you tell me why
- 16:45try to guess the reason is think about
- 16:48it let's say I have no money in my
- 16:50wallet I just borrow 100 rupees from
- 16:55somebody I go to the uh
- 16:59I go to the uh gambling
- 17:01room and I bet the way I
- 17:04did and I will make a profit of
- 17:08102 right so I will not only get my 100
- 17:12rupees back the principal but I will
- 17:14also earn guaranteed 102 rupees and the
- 17:17100 rupees which I borrowed I can give
- 17:19it
- 17:20back which means I can make 102 rupees
- 17:24out of nothing at any point of
- 17:27time if that's the case I will keep on
- 17:30making such 102 rupees every hour or
- 17:34every minute which will make me a
- 17:37trillionaire or or a or a multi-
- 17:39trillionaire in 5 days but that can't
- 17:43happen that will that will bring the
- 17:45world crashing
- 17:46down okay so such a scenario is called
- 17:49an
- 17:50Arbitrage example of financial Arbitrage
- 17:53which we see in the financial markets is
- 17:55bcn arbitrage often a particular stock
- 17:58trade at different values in the Bombay
- 18:01Stock Exchange and the National Stock
- 18:02Exchange okay which should not happen if
- 18:05it happens what's the problem the
- 18:07problem is simple I will buy a unit from
- 18:09the Bombay Stock
- 18:11Exchange let's say at 10 Rupees and
- 18:14let's say if it is trading at 12 rupees
- 18:15in the National Stock Exchange I will
- 18:17sell it in the National Stock
- 18:19Exchange and uh I will make a profit of
- 18:21two I buy from BSE sell in NSE or vice
- 18:25versa and make profits and I keep making
- 18:28profits
- 18:29still all the money in the world belongs
- 18:31to me okay which is
- 18:36impossible great so we have talked about
- 18:38hedging an
- 18:41Arbitrage now a little
- 18:43um extension of the example which we
- 18:46just uh talked about we saw that if we
- 18:50enter the gambling
- 18:52room uh and verat and Steve are offering
- 18:55the bets which they're
- 18:56offering 25 is to 1 6X 5 is to
- 19:011 uh I can make a guaranteed profit of
- 19:05102 but then I'm not happy with
- 19:08102 I'm a greedy man I want more money
- 19:13okay and what if I decide to take a
- 19:16little bit of risk and earn more profit
- 19:19can I do
- 19:21that the answer is of course yes if I
- 19:25bet all my money against verat then
- 19:29I can make 2500 if Australia
- 19:32wins but I also have the risk of losing
- 19:35all my
- 19:36money okay so this is the risk and
- 19:39return which I'm Tor
- 19:40between which every investor in the
- 19:43financial Market is torn
- 19:44between
- 19:46okay that here I can make a risk-free
- 19:49return of 102 but on the other
- 19:52hand uh I can make 2500 which is a which
- 19:55is a hell lot more but I I'm also
- 19:59susceptible to losing all my money okay
- 20:03great I don't want that that is why I
- 20:06wanted the risk free return but now I
- 20:08say that okay fine risk-free 102 is very
- 20:11good but let's say I can't afford to
- 20:14lose all my money but I can take a risk
- 20:16of 10
- 20:18Rupees so I will simply take a little
- 20:22risk okay such that I will lose 10
- 20:25Rupees at
- 20:27Max I will allow myself this small
- 20:31window of Lo of losing 10 Rupees if in
- 20:34the worst
- 20:35case if that's the scenario what's the
- 20:39maximum profit which I can
- 20:42earn okay given that my maximum loss is
- 20:4710
- 20:50Rupees let's see let's try to let's try
- 20:53to solve this now
- 20:59if I if I choose xar at 7.8 my
- 21:04guaranteed profit was
- 21:06102 now let's say if I move a little bit
- 21:09to the right and I
- 21:13choose my X here somewhere here
- 21:19maybe let's say this is my choice of x
- 21:22to the right of
- 21:2754.55% Zone The risk-free Zone and I'm
- 21:31choosing an x to the right of
- 21:5754.55% 4
- 21:5936 so if I choose this
- 22:02x which is out of the safe Zone this is
- 22:04my safe Zone remember 3.85 to 54.55%
- 22:29so huge profit and a little risk now
- 22:32whether I would do it or not depends on
- 22:35my psychological makeup okay so uh it's
- 22:40a risk if I if I choose to if I choose
- 22:43to eliminate my risk completely my
- 22:46profit is
- 22:48102 if I choose to take a little bit of
- 22:50risk of 10 Rupees that's the max I can
- 22:53lose then my profit shoots up to
- 22:571436 so this is the risk return
- 22:59trade-off the risk and profit tradeoff
- 23:03which you see in financial markets and
- 23:06in
- 23:07life great a little term which I want to
- 23:11introduce you which you will encounter
- 23:13in all uh finance and in probability
- 23:17textbooks it is fair bet and implied
- 23:21probability okay now what is a fair
- 23:25bet a bet as you saw is a Rand variable
- 23:30right or or the winnings from a bet is a
- 23:33random
- 23:35variable a bet or winnings from a bet
- 23:38it'll is called a fair is called
- 23:41fair if expectation of that random
- 23:44variable is
- 23:46zero
- 23:47okay now in our example let us assume
- 23:50that uh Ste verat and Steve are both
- 23:53offering Fair bets and they also think
- 23:55they're offering Fair
- 23:56bets okay
- 23:59then what is virat's expected
- 24:02payoff well Virat is also having some
- 24:05probability in mind which he thinks
- 24:07India will win when he's when he's
- 24:09betting he must be having something in
- 24:11mind some probability in mind right so
- 24:14what is virat's expected payoff if India
- 24:17wins he will get get a payoff of plus
- 24:20one if India loses he'll he'll get a
- 24:23payoff of minus- 25 that's the bet he's
- 24:26offering right so minus1 into
- 24:29probability of India winning according
- 24:30to
- 24:31verat plus -25 into probability of
- 24:34Australia winning according to
- 24:37verat okay this PV end this is the
- 24:41probability of India willing winning
- 24:43according to verat this is virat's
- 24:45implied probability that India will
- 24:49win
- 24:51okay if we solve this we get that vat's
- 24:54implied probability is 25 by 26 that
- 24:57India will win
- 24:59okay so assuming that verat believes in
- 25:01offering a fair
- 25:03bet then uh that's the implied
- 25:06probability of India winning according
- 25:08to
- 25:09vat okay similarly we can compute the
- 25:13implied probabilities uh which of India
- 25:16winning and Australia winning according
- 25:18to
- 25:19Steve
- 25:22great now we have got an idea of risk
- 25:25and profit
- 25:29so let's move on to financial
- 25:36markets let's move on to financial
- 25:38markets and see what instruments we have
- 25:41got in order to uh mitigate
- 25:46risk so first in today's lecture we'll
- 25:49talk
- 25:50about two uh key financial
- 25:55instruments the call and the put and
- 25:58we'll talk about other kinds of
- 26:00instruments in the in the in the in the
- 26:02subsequent
- 26:05lectures first let's take an example
- 26:07let's start with an
- 26:09example consider the TCS stock
- 26:12price let's say the TCS stock price
- 26:15today is
- 26:173416 now I want to buy a TCS stock right
- 26:20now but I have a feeling I have a hunch
- 26:24that the market will crash and the TCS
- 26:26stock price will go down to
- 26:293316 instead of 3416 it'll go down to
- 26:323316 that is by 100
- 26:35rup okay so I'm tempted to wait and buy
- 26:39later byy tomorrow on the 10th of
- 26:43September so it seems that waiting till
- 26:4510th of September might be good but what
- 26:48if the crash doesn't happen what if the
- 26:51price goes up to
- 26:533500 then I will
- 26:56regret right then I will think that ah I
- 26:59wish I had bought it for
- 27:023416 right so I'm confused should I wait
- 27:07till 10th of September or uh I should
- 27:11buy it
- 27:15now now if there is a option which
- 27:19allows me to buy a TCS stock on 10th of
- 27:23September at today's price which is
- 27:263416 then my fear will be gone right
- 27:31what is my fear that the price will R
- 27:33rise to
- 27:3435 but if somebody gives me the option
- 27:37gives me the assurance that don't worry
- 27:40you can buy uh the TCS stock at 3416 on
- 27:4410th of
- 27:45September then I'll be relieved of this
- 27:47pressure and I will take the risk of
- 27:51waiting if the price comes down to
- 27:533316 fantastic if it goes to 35 even
- 27:58then it doesn't matter I have a
- 28:00insurance that I can buy it at
- 28:033416 okay this insurance or right is
- 28:08called a call
- 28:10option
- 28:12okay this right is called a call call
- 28:15option where the expiration date is 10th
- 28:17of September and the strike price is
- 28:223416 now why should anybody let's say
- 28:25why should TCS give me this right for
- 28:26free or anybody should give me this
- 28:29right for free no they
- 28:31won't nobody would so I'll have to buy
- 28:34this right so a call option is a right
- 28:38to buy a particular asset at a
- 28:41particular price at some point in the
- 28:44future okay okay somebody who buys a
- 28:48call option that is somebody who buys
- 28:51this right is said to go long on a call
- 28:54option these are just terms
- 28:56used and some somebody who sells this
- 28:59right to some other
- 29:00person so if I give you the right to buy
- 29:05TCS stock at 3416 from
- 29:10me on 10th of September then I'm selling
- 29:13the call option then it is said that I
- 29:16go short on a call
- 29:19option okay
- 29:22great so more formally this is what it
- 29:25is a call option is a contract which
- 29:27gives the owner the right to buy an
- 29:29asset at an agreed upon price okay it is
- 29:33denoted by
- 29:35CEST e is the strike price that is the
- 29:40price at which the call option allows
- 29:43you to buy the asset at the expiration
- 29:47date the expiration date is T that is
- 29:50after T months or t days and S is your
- 29:54underlying asset which is being bought
- 29:55or sold in this case it was the TCS
- 29:59stock
- 30:01great so if uh let's say if I go long on
- 30:06a call
- 30:07option that is if I buy a call option
- 30:11what is my
- 30:13payoff well let's say uh I buy a call
- 30:17option which allows me to uh buy one
- 30:22unit
- 30:23of an asset or one unit of a stock at e
- 30:29Rupees at some point in the future at
- 30:31the expiration
- 30:33date now if the price becomes e+
- 30:3810 if the price at the expiration date
- 30:42this is the stock at the expiration date
- 30:45if it becomes e+ 10 then what will
- 30:48happen
- 30:50well I have the right to buy the co buy
- 30:54the stock at what price e so I will buy
- 30:57the stock at Price e and sell it in the
- 31:00Market at rupees e+ 10 so what will be
- 31:03my payoff 10 Rupees I will make this
- 31:06much this much of profit so as the stock
- 31:09price at the expiration date goes up as
- 31:12the price of the underlying asset at the
- 31:14expiration date goes up my payoff will
- 31:17go up who am I I'm the buyer or holder
- 31:21of the call
- 31:22option okay what if the price of the
- 31:25asset or the stock price goes below
- 31:29E well then I will not exercise the call
- 31:32option at all because it will be silly
- 31:34of me to do
- 31:35so okay so let's say if at the
- 31:38expiration date the price is e minus
- 31:4110 that is the stock is available in the
- 31:43market that particular asset is
- 31:45available in the Market at Price e minus
- 31:4910 now the call option is giving me a
- 31:52right to buy that asset at
- 31:54EES but why will I use that right I I
- 31:58can anyway buy it in the Market at e
- 31:59minus 10 Rupees at a cheaper price so
- 32:02this right which I
- 32:04have by the virtue of owning this call
- 32:06option is
- 32:08useless so my payoff is zero so it is
- 32:12zero
- 32:13here so this is how the payoff looks
- 32:16like of course here I'm assuming that
- 32:18the call option is call option does not
- 32:20have any
- 32:22price if we take the price into account
- 32:25then the entire payoff
- 32:29uh graph will shift down by an amount P
- 32:33which is this pce that's the price of
- 32:35the call
- 32:37option okay
- 32:40great so I will stop here we'll talk
- 32:43about put options in the next lecture
- 32:47and we'll look
- 32:48at uh different kinds of financial
- 32:51instruments which we can design with put
- 32:53and
- 32:54call but that'll happen in the next
- 32:56lecture so I'll see you in the next
- 32:58lecture thank you
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