System and method of margining fixed payoff products
First Claim
1. A computer implemented method of minimizing a margin requirement for a portfolio comprising at least one product, each product of the at least one product having one or more discontinuous payoffs associated therewith, each of the one or more discontinuous payoffs being based on an outcome of an associated event at which the product may settle, the method comprising:
- determining, by a computer system comprising at least a computer processor, a subset of outcomes, out of a finite set of all possible outcomes, at which each of the at least one product may settle and a resultant change in value thereof;
assigning, by the computer system, a probability weight to each outcome of the subset of outcomes representative of a probability an occurrence thereof; and
computing, by the computer system, the margin requirement based on the resultant change in value resulting from each of the subset of outcomes and the probability weight assigned thereto.
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Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for determining performance bonds for fixed payoff products, i.e. contracts which payoff a fixed amount based on the outcome of an underlying event regardless of the value thereof. The worst outcome of the overall portfolio, which may contain more multiple instruments, is calculated, allowing the portfolio to have both long and short positions on the same underlying event and offsets among instruments within the portfolio. A universe of outcomes is constructed including single events with single outcomes, and the probability thereof, and single events with multiple outcomes, each with a probability thereof. Each outcome has an associated price and probability. Low probability events will have low values, resulting in a lower margin requirement. The margin requirement is then the amount of the maximum loss that the portfolio can sustain for any possible outcome of the underlying event, adjusted for the probability thereof.
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1. A computer implemented method of minimizing a margin requirement for a portfolio comprising at least one product, each product of the at least one product having one or more discontinuous payoffs associated therewith, each of the one or more discontinuous payoffs being based on an outcome of an associated event at which the product may settle, the method comprising:
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determining, by a computer system comprising at least a computer processor, a subset of outcomes, out of a finite set of all possible outcomes, at which each of the at least one product may settle and a resultant change in value thereof; assigning, by the computer system, a probability weight to each outcome of the subset of outcomes representative of a probability an occurrence thereof; and computing, by the computer system, the margin requirement based on the resultant change in value resulting from each of the subset of outcomes and the probability weight assigned thereto. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for computing a minimized a margin requirement for a portfolio comprising at least one product, each product of the at least one product having one or more discontinuous payoffs associated therewith, each of the one or more discontinuous payoffs being based on an outcome of an associated event at which the product may settle, the system comprising a processor and a memory coupled therewith, the system further comprising:
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a possible outcome generator computer software program stored in the memory and executable by the processor to determine a subset of outcomes, out of a finite set of all possible outcomes, at which each of the at least one product may settle and a resultant change in value thereof; a probability generator computer software program stored in the memory and coupled with the possible outcome generator computer software program and executable by the processor to assign a probability weight to each outcome of the subset of outcomes representative of a probability an occurrence thereof; and a risk processor computer software program stored in the memory and coupled with the possible outcome generator computer software program and the probability generator computer software program and executable by the processor to compute the margin requirement based on the resultant change in value resulting from each of the subset of outcomes and the probability weight assigned thereto. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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