0:12 Remember we are still looking at the
0:15 series on how to manage
0:18 FX rate exposure
0:21 and uh in the previous recording I've
0:25 spoken about how to use forward how to
0:27 use money market edge how to use
0:32 futures. Now speaking about options,
0:35 yeah, I've also spoken about options
0:38 earlier on. try to explain the basic
0:40 terminologies of options especially when
0:43 we're concluding that later part of
0:46 investment appraisal with options where
0:48 we spoke about black and a lot of
0:50 terminologies I've explained and I
0:52 believe is still very fresh with all of
0:55 that but I'm still going to make a bit
0:57 of reference to what I said earlier and
1:02 the fact is option is always a right
1:04 yeah please take note I'm going to be
1:07 explaining this in the perspective of a
1:10 buyer of an option. Remember as I said
1:11 earlier, if you are the one selling an
1:13 option, what you have is an obligation.
1:15 You don't have a right. But here we'll
1:19 be looking at it like a buyer. So a
1:22 buyer has a right. So please note that
1:29 because I know it's usually a point of
1:31 confusion for student. So right is only
1:35 to the buyer of option. And this buyer
1:38 can buy two types of option.
1:41 This guy can buy call. Either he's
1:51 And what does this mean? When you are
1:53 buying a call, what we are saying is
1:56 that you are buying
2:03 a flexibility. Yeah. a right to buy
2:11 of FX foreign currency
2:14 at a specific rate which is a strike price.
2:16 price.
2:18 That's what you call the strike price.
2:20 Likewise, if you buy a right, it means
2:24 that this guy is buying
2:26 a right
2:30 to sell
2:32 an amount
2:38 at a specific rate,
2:41 which is a strike price, right? So, just
2:42 a quick refresher. And when you are
2:52 Yeah, that's usually the price of your
2:54 option. You're going to pay a premium to
2:55 whereby selling to you. Please take
2:59 note. So, which means once you pay then
3:02 you have your flexibility. And what is
3:05 that flexibility all about? Flexibility
3:07 is just about saying that you have the
3:15 So which means on settlement date or on
3:18 the option expiry date you can actually
3:21 decide not to use it. And when will you
3:23 decide not to use it? Definitely if the
3:25 real movement the spot movement or the
3:28 reality on that day reflects that the
3:31 market is actually in your favor then
3:33 you don't have to use the option. You
3:34 can just go with the market and walk
3:36 away from the option. But if the market
3:39 has gone against you in an advanced way
3:41 then definitely the option becomes very
3:43 useful and that is when you would like
3:45 to exercise very important. Let's
3:48 quickly look at the steps.
3:50 What are the steps? Yeah, just to break
3:54 it down into a workable space for you.
3:56 So the first one is you need to be able
3:59 to decide.
4:01 You need to learn how to decide if you need
4:03 need
4:05 a call
4:09 or a put.
4:11 Very important. When do you buy a call
4:15 and when do you buy a put? Yeah, this is
4:17 very easy. What I will tell you is that
4:19 you need to always first of all know
4:21 your currency of contract. All your
4:25 interpretations must be made in your
4:27 currency of contract. Extremely
4:29 important. Yeah. And what you'll be
4:31 asking yourself is do I have to sell the
4:33 currency of contract in the future or do
4:35 I need to buy the currency of contract
4:36 in the future? You always know your
4:38 currency of contract because it will be
4:41 stated in your question as the size of
4:43 the contract. So take for instance if
4:46 they say size of the contract is $20,000
4:47 and that means the currency of contract
4:49 is in dollars. If they say the size of
4:52 contract is €10,000, that means the
4:55 currency of contract is euro. then you
4:59 need to know that your
5:01 objective now will determine whether
5:03 you're buying call or you're buying a
5:05 put. So if you're going to be selling
5:07 the currency of contract, take for
5:09 instance dollar, then you know that your
5:13 edge has to be a put. So you need to be
5:15 buying a put which means the right to
5:17 sell the dollar at a particular rate
5:19 that you're picking. And if your
5:21 currency of contract, so this is your
5:23 currency of contract. If your currency
5:29 of contract is euro, yeah, and um let's
5:41 yeah, with local currency of card.
5:46 Now if you are expecting a receipt
5:49 yeah in dollars what this means is that
5:52 you have to sell these dollars
5:57 and that means you need to use a put but
6:00 if you are going to pay dollars in the
6:04 future yeah which means
6:07 you have to sell Canadian dollars to buy
6:11 card. So because you need to buy card,
6:13 sorry, you need to buy dollar to be able
6:15 to pay this future dollars. Then you
6:18 need to be buying a call. That's the way
6:19 you're going to have the right to be
6:21 able to buy the dollar in the future. So
6:24 that's how to know the type of option
6:26 that you need. And that's your first
6:29 step that you need to know. The second
6:31 step you need to be thinking about very
6:34 important is okay, I know what I need. I
6:36 need a call or I need a put. How many of
6:39 such contract do I need?
6:42 In all your edging, you must always know
6:44 how many contracts, especially the
6:47 exchange traded options or exchange
6:49 traded instruments. Generally speaking,
6:50 what I always tell you is the fact that
6:52 you don't decide on what is available in
6:54 the market. The market will tell you
6:56 what is available. So the sizes in the
6:58 market might not exactly match what you
7:01 want. So you only most likely be able to
7:04 buy certain amount and you might always
7:07 have some amount on hedge. And please
7:10 I'm always telling you beware of on edge
7:12 portion of your exposure because those
7:14 ones must always be exchanged at the
7:16 spot rate on the on the on the
7:17 transaction date because you couldn't
7:20 edge them. There's no contract to take
7:22 care of that size. Right? So and now you
7:24 know the number of contract that you
7:27 need. What I will always tell you is
7:30 please always remember that you must
7:32 always work with currency of contract.
7:34 That's the first thing. So what you need
7:37 to do is you need to determine the
7:41 amount of
7:44 your transaction in the currency of
7:47 contract. But how do you know? You have
7:51 to use your
7:54 strike price to determine that amount is
7:58 very important. You always need to use
8:01 that strike price. Extremely extremely
8:03 important. So please remember to always
8:05 calculate the value of the transaction
8:08 in the corres of contract. So
8:10 and if you know that then it life will
8:12 be super easy for you because the number
8:14 of contract that you need will always be
8:24 please note in currency of contract
8:30 divided by the contract size.
8:32 We're going to work some examples now to quickly
8:34 quickly
8:36 explain this to you. Right. So with
8:37 this, you're going to know the number of
8:40 contracts that you need. And once you
8:41 know the number of contract that you
8:44 need, then you can select the right
8:47 expiry date for your option. Remember
8:48 your option will come in different
8:52 months. That's June option uh all sort
8:55 of options.
8:58 We don't give you September, October,
9:01 March all in one question. But you must
9:06 be able to pick what is the right date
9:08 that you should be using for your
9:12 option. It's very important. You must be
9:14 able to do that.
9:16 And I'm going to even show you what
9:18 sometimes this look like. Let me see if
9:42 Yeah, this is a very good example.
9:45 Yeah, look at this now. Right. So, you
9:47 can see you have June, you have
9:51 September, you have December, you have
9:54 all over there. So you must know whether
9:57 you want a June call or a September call
10:00 or you want
10:02 December. You must be able to pick which
10:06 one do you really want. Yeah. So if you
10:09 know the one you want, then you can pick
10:12 the right strike price. But please note
10:16 that your expiry date will always be the
10:18 date of your transaction. So you need to
10:20 always match.
10:29 date with
10:31 with option
10:34 option exercise
10:46 Remember we are focusing assumption is
10:48 that all these are European options.
10:50 they are not flexible can only be
10:52 exercised on the expiry date unlike the
10:55 American options that are flexible.
10:58 Okay. So once you know that then you
11:18 Yeah. You must be able to pick the right
11:20 strike price here. And what am I talking
11:21 about? Look at this table that I have
11:24 here. Let's look at call for June for an
11:27 example. Or it's called for June. Let's
11:29 look at this one.
11:32 If you look at this closely, you see
11:35 that we have four different strike
11:38 prices available and the premium
11:40 different as well.
11:42 Likewise, we have different for
11:45 September, December. Yeah. And put
11:48 also. So let's say we want to use a
11:50 call. If we need a call for this
11:52 transaction and this is information we
11:55 have available for us,
11:57 what strike price will be the best for
12:00 us. First thing you need to know is that
12:02 when you are talking about the call you
12:06 are buying is an option to buy. So which
12:10 means the strike price is payment. So
12:12 you pay the strike price
12:15 and in addition you're going to pay premium.
12:22 And if that is the case then you have
12:25 total things to pay. And what will be
12:27 your objective? Your objective will be
12:30 to go for the cheapest strike price. So,
12:34 cheapest net strike price that will
12:37 always be your objective. Please take
12:40 note anytime you are talking about call
12:44 your objective is to look for
12:46 a strike price that gives you the
12:49 cheapest net.
12:52 And let's look at this. So, if we look
12:55 at what we have now,
12:58 all we need to do is to deduct. No,
13:00 we're going to be hiding because both of
13:02 them are payment as you can see. Yeah.
13:05 So, if they are both payment, then that
13:10 115 plus another 1.99 that we will have
13:15 to pay because it's a call which means
13:19 the net for this is invariably
13:31 and the other one 1.39
13:34 + 116
13:43 + 117
13:45 and this 117.87 87
13:47 87
13:55 54. And you can see makes sense that the
13:57 strike price as the strike price is
14:00 increasing downwards
14:01 what happens to the premium? Premium
14:04 will decrease.
14:08 Yeah. Because it becomes less attractive
14:10 when the strike price is increasing
14:12 because you are telling somebody to come
14:15 and buy at a high price. So the higher
14:16 the price you expect that the premium
14:19 lower but if you look at all of these
14:21 options four options we have four
14:24 possibilities. The cheapest one for us
14:28 is the first one and that is why
14:32 definitely in this scenario 115 strike
14:36 price option will be our selection. So
14:38 we'll go for the option that has the
14:39 strike price
14:42 as 115 and we will pay a premium of
14:46 1.99. We're happy to do that.
14:49 I mean was put for put if you want to
14:53 pick the right strike price for put what
14:55 you need to look for is because this one
14:57 is an option to sell. So if your option
15:00 to sell it means that your strike price
15:06 So that's inflow. So you want this to be
15:08 as high as possible while at the same
15:12 time you still have to pay premium
15:15 because you are buying it. So which means
15:17 means
15:20 the highest will be the scenario. Now
15:22 the highest net of strike price minus
15:25 premium is what you are looking for. In
15:27 the previous example, what you are
15:31 looking for is the lowest
15:34 strike price plus premium. That's what
15:38 you're looking for. But for premium for
15:40 put, you look for the highest because if
15:42 you're buying, you want to buy at the
15:44 cheapest possible. If you are selling,
15:47 you want to make the highest money
15:50 possible. So in this uh scenario, you
15:52 will discover that if you are still
15:54 sticking on June, let's still play with June.
15:55 June.
15:58 But all this strike price and all this
16:00 option this one means that it's not
16:02 available. So not yet available. So we
16:05 only have three possibilities. So let's
16:08 see which of these puts we're going to
16:12 be using 115 inflow minus.64 that we
16:27 is 115
16:31 and 117 like that's 1.43
16:43 So 117 definitely will give us the
16:45 highest inflow possible because this is
16:47 the highest figure. This is the highest
16:51 net. Yeah. So if we talk about put then
16:55 117 the option with strike price of 117
16:57 will be our best bet. So that's how to
16:58 choose your strike price. Very important
17:01 to know that. Let's let's look at an example.
17:07 Yeah this one.
17:10 This bongo take few seconds and pause
17:24 Yeah. So look at this.
17:26 What is going on with this company? This
17:29 company will have to pay
17:32 this amount in the future. That's the
17:35 problem. Now
17:38 he needs to pay.
17:55 So pay payable
18:04 So if you have a payable of $350,000
18:05 that is not my problem. The first
18:07 problem I need to be asking myself is
18:09 what is the currency of contract? Please
18:11 remember that is always the first
18:13 question you need to ask yourself. The
18:15 currency of contract. The currency of
18:17 contract. What is the currency of
18:19 contract? In this question the currency
18:27 Which means I need to find out what
18:30 would this be in pounds for me to be
18:31 able to deal with the number of contract
18:34 that I need. But like I said, our first
18:36 step, we need to know are we using call
18:38 or are we using put so and we need to
18:40 interpret this in the currency of
18:42 contract. So if we need to pay dollars
18:44 in the future, it means that we're going
18:47 to be selling pounds now to be able to
18:49 get those dollars. So which means we're
18:52 going to be using option to sell and
18:54 that is a put. So that's the only that's
18:56 the only thing that will give us an
18:59 option to sell. So when we know that
19:01 we need a put
19:04 this is done we need how many contract
19:06 we need to buy. But before we can get
19:08 how many contract we need to buy we need
19:12 to get the volume of our transaction in
19:15 the currency of contract. So we won't be
19:17 able to do that until we know the strike
19:20 price that we should be using. So let's
19:21 quickly decide what is the strike price
19:23 that we'll be using.
19:25 We're going to be able to pick our
19:29 strike price based on the correct expiry date
19:30 date
19:34 that ties with our transaction date and
19:37 the most efficient
19:44 going to be looking for the cheapest.
19:46 So when you look at this situation we
19:47 don't have so many options of expiry
19:49 date. We are lucky we have only been
19:52 given June contract as you can see. So
19:54 there's nothing to sweat about. And if
19:57 that is the case,
19:59 then the next question is, are we using
20:02 this one or are we using this one? Since
20:04 it's a put, so we need to be looking at
20:07 this side and not this side. We don't
20:10 have any business here, right? So
20:13 what they've told us is that the premium
20:15 are actually in cent for every pound,
20:17 right? So which means the same way you
20:21 have for the quotes. The quote is $1.5
20:29 for 1.45
20:32 strike price and.124
20:36 or 1.5. So which means net that talking
20:41 about will be 1.5 inflow minus payment
20:43 of 1.102.
20:46 So that is 1.348
20:49 active for this one net. And if you go
20:53 for 1.5 strike our net price will be
21:02 So in that case this is the best for us
21:04 and this is not the so we're going to go
21:07 for 1.5 as our strike price. So we
21:10 already know that the strike price will
21:13 be 1.5. That's what we're going to go
21:15 for. So that's $1.5
21:18 for every pound. So with this we can get
21:22 our value of transaction in currency of
21:26 contract that will be equals to
21:28 remember when we say what we're saying
21:30 is that $1.5
21:32 is equals to1
21:35 and we're talking of receiving I mean we
21:39 need equivalent of $350,000.
21:42 So that will be equals to 350,000
21:44 by 1.5.
21:52 that gives us value of contract that is
21:58 equals to in pounds 2 33 3
22:00 value of transaction yeah of this
22:03 amount. So if this is our amount and we
22:06 know that each contract
22:09 they told us that it is 25,000 as you
22:11 can see
22:14 is the value of each contract £25,000.
22:16 £25,000.
22:18 So if that's in the case then we know that,000.
22:32 that we need will be equals to 2 33 33
22:34 33 3.33
22:38 / by 25,000.
22:42 And if you do that, that will give us
22:44 9.3 contracts.
22:46 Now this is where you need to be
22:48 careful. There's no decimal place for
22:50 number of contract. So which means you
23:04 can edge it.
23:06 So we'll come back to that. The point 33
23:09 of our contract zone will be on edge
23:12 unfortunately and uh we're going to be
23:15 able to edge n contract.
23:19 Okay. So now
23:23 we are sorted. We know that um we are buying
23:36 of a call option of a put option.
23:41 with
23:44 exercise price of
23:47 one 15. Yeah. 1.45. Which one did we
23:53 choose? No, 1.5. 7.5 is the best
24:02 of I think that's uh June contract. Yes, June.
24:09 So that's what we want to buy. So
24:12 contract is set. We're ready. So we
24:16 close out this contract. We need to pay
24:19 premium. So once we know the contract
24:20 then the next thing is for us to pay the premium.
24:26 Remember you don't have a contract until
24:28 you pay your premium because it's a
24:30 premium that gives you the right to the
24:32 flexibility that you've been talking
24:35 about. Yeah. So and in that case you
24:36 need to know the number of contract you
24:38 bought and that's why it's extremely
24:42 important because without that
24:43 without the number of contract your
24:45 premium calculation might be wrong if
24:49 you don't have evenly uh distributed
24:51 contract and you're able to hedge
24:55 everything right so for the contract
24:59 that we are buying n of them we can see
25:01 that for each band we're going to be
25:04 paying a premium of $124.
25:17 per pound.
25:23 Yeah. And you know how much pounds are
25:25 we going to be getting? We are talking
25:30 of each contract is worth £25,000.
25:32 We have decided to buy nine of that and
25:35 each of the pound will attract a premium of
25:37 of 0.124.
25:48 Please remember what we are calculating
25:51 is the premium. Yeah, which is in
25:52 dollars because the premium is coded in
25:55 dollars. Don't be confused with this
25:57 band because I know it might be kind of
25:58 confusing. Remember this is just the size
26:01 size
26:03 the path symbol you are seeing here is
26:07 just to show the contract currency. This
26:10 is a notion is an amount is a is a size
26:13 amount. It's not it's not a currency
26:17 that is just size. So it's 25,000
26:21 * 9 *.124
26:25 and that will give you the total
26:28 premium of $27,900.
26:34 So we need to pay this premium on day
26:48 on a one
26:56 But remember, we are not a US company.
26:57 We are UK company. So we don't even have
27:00 this $27,000.
27:01 So which means we need to look for it.
27:04 And what does it mean? We need to buy it
27:09 at spot. So we have to buy 27,900
27:15 So we need the spot rate and let's see
27:19 whether we have it in the question.
27:22 Yeah. So they give us the spot as you
27:27 can see it said the currency dollar spot
27:30 trait is this. So remember I always tell
27:32 you you need to know how to pick whether
27:33 this one or this one. And what you need
27:36 to ask yourself is whether is a bid or
27:39 ask price that you're going to be using.
27:41 It depends on what you are doing to the
27:42 second currency and what the bank is
27:44 doing to the second currency. So think
27:47 bank, think second currency.
27:49 You want to buy dollars which means you
27:50 are selling pounds. If you are selling
27:52 pound, bank must be buying the pounds
27:55 from you. So automatically you have to
27:58 use the buy rate and not the ask the
28:00 selling rate.
28:03 Yeah, by now you should be used to that
28:05 interpretation. So, which means the rate
28:18 So the equivalent in pounds that we're
28:25 / 1.5190
28:28 and that will give us in pounds let's
28:31 see by 1.51
28:35 90 that's 18, 367.35.
28:42 So this is the premium that we have to
28:44 pay now and once we pay that then we
28:47 have a contract we can go and sleep and
28:50 wait for the expiry date. So
28:53 on settlement date when the due date comes
28:55 comes
28:58 which means date of expiry of the of the
29:01 option this is the day we need to decide
29:05 whether we want to exercise or we don't
29:08 want to exercise. How do you decide? You
29:19 Those are the two things you need to
29:22 check. And based on your condition, you
29:24 decide which one is better for you.
29:27 Currently, your strike price is 1.5.
29:29 That's what you've agreed. So, you agree
29:33 to sell $1.5 for £1.
29:37 But sport what is spot on that day is
29:39 saying they gave us spot on that day
29:42 under the required thing they said this
29:45 is the spot
29:48 gave us spot said
29:54 on
29:57 that's on the 30th of June. So remember
29:59 on the spot what are we going to be
30:00 doing because we're going to pay dollar.
30:03 So we will be selling pounds on that
30:06 spot day that we are selling pounds bank
30:09 will be buying it from us. So it's this
30:11 buying rate that will be applicable to
30:14 us if we need to compare now. So let's
30:18 compare with 1.1 and 1.5 and decide
30:20 which one we're going to look for. So 1.4
30:22 1.4 810
30:30 for every pound. So what we know is that
30:33 we are we are selling pound. So do we
30:37 prefer to sell pounds for $1.5 or sell
30:41 it for 1.4 dollar? Definitely
30:44 it is better to sell for 1.5 because we
30:46 will be able to get more dollar because
30:49 dollar that we need right so which means
30:55 very important to know that and once we
30:58 exercise it means that we're going to be
31:01 buying our nine contract that is
31:04 equivalent to 25,000
31:07 and that will be giving us a total pound
31:11 of 225 5,000.
31:14 So we collect our contract. Yeah. But
31:17 remember this is the contract that we
31:22 bought. So we get this £225,000
31:25 which means we have exercised at a 1.5.
31:29 That's why we to get this 225. Yeah.
31:32 However, there's a portion that we were
31:35 not able to edge. If you remember,
31:40 there's a portion that we couldn't edge.
31:44 And why we couldn't edge it? Because the
31:48 contract size doesn't allow us. We're
31:49 not able to do that because of the
31:51 contract size.
31:54 And the question is, how do you deal
31:56 with that?
31:59 Remember what I said that particular one
32:04 you must convert it at the
32:06 spot rate cuz we only bought nine
32:09 contract. So the nine cr the nine
32:10 contract that we bought we bought at $1.5
32:13 $1.5
32:15 for each pound.
32:25 from the contract.
32:27 So we can know how much dollars we've
32:29 been able to sell to to be able to get
32:38 So which means we must have been able to
32:41 sell a dollar that is equivalent to 1.5
32:44 * 225.
32:50 So so total dollars sold
32:52 or bought because we're actually paying.
32:54 We're buying
32:57 the total amount of dollar purchased
33:04 will be equals to 1.5
33:11 which means we've been able to purchase 337
33:13 337 $500
33:19 because that's coming from our edge
33:22 because this is the size of our contract
33:26 we have exercised at 1.5. Yeah, we said
33:30 we exercise. So when we exercise at 1.5
33:33 they automatically counterparty will
33:36 give us this amount of dollars but we
33:39 still have some left that we need
33:43 because we needed total sum of $350.
33:47 That is all we need $350,000.
33:55 more dollar needed because
33:57 because
34:00 we couldn't edge everything. So that
34:02 minus 350,000.
34:05 So which means we needed a dollar worth
34:08 of 12,500.
34:10 So this one we don't have any other
34:13 option. We have to buy it at the spot
34:17 rate. The spot rate is we decided on
34:21 that already is 1.4. 481
34:24 for each pound. So which means we're
34:27 going to get 12,500.
34:29 12,500.
34:33 We need this amount of pounds to be able to
34:36 to
34:38 pay our
34:40 debt. So that will be equals to in
34:45 pounds we need to cover this money.
34:47 So which mean invariably the total
34:49 pounds that we need to do this
34:52 transaction will be 225,000 that we got
34:57 from edging plus 8440
34:59 that we got
35:02 that we have to use
35:05 for the on edge portion this one edging
35:08 help us this one from on edge and also
35:11 we paid a premium remember we paid a
35:14 premium of I see of this amount to be
35:16 able to do this agent transaction. So 18367.35
35:28 So these three items were the total
35:31 amount that we used in pounds to be able
35:36 to pay our £350,000
35:39 that we have to pay someone. And that
35:43 cost us uh £251,000 87.
35:51 And that is it for that question.
35:55 Very important. Please take note how