Iceberg Options Solutions

The Iceberg's portfolio has been conceived and designed to give you the overview of your strategies. The user can create different portfolios and he can include diffent strategies . The portfolio allows to know various information in real-time like the net exposure at market. Portfolio is divided into several tabs that we analyze below.

In the example that we are going to analyze the portfolio is composed of the four strategies (Salvatore Ferragamo, Mediaset, STMicroelectronics e Tenaris) reported below .

	24/03/2016	Portfolio - Il Payoff	9:00
	24/03/2016	Portfolio - Le Legs	3:07
	24/03/2016	Portfolio - Il Cashflow	5:11
	24/03/2016	Portfolio - I Margini	4:44
	24/03/2016	Portfolio - Greche e Correlazione	8:04

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Payoff section shows the global payoff of all strategies (in order to make comparable the various underlying the prices are percentualizzati) and the payoffs of individual strategies. Every strattegy, like the payoff and the at-now, is highlighted with a color in order to render detectable immediately each strategy. By clicking on the names of the strategies (above the payoff chart) you can enable or disable the display in the chart. You can also change the color that represents the strategy directly from the window Strategy Settings of every strategy.

The section “Legs Payoff” shows the legs in the form of dots that are colored in red or green if they are more than one standard deviation from the mean. This type of display allows with a glance to have the complete vision of the legs of the strategies that make up the user's portfolio.
In the lower part of the chart you can choose according on which parameters you see the legs : P/L at expire, P/L at now, P/L at now %, Bep %.
These choices allow the user to see the portfolio in graphical form according to the most important parameters.

Cash Flow / Risk: It is the section of the portfolio that provides the user the information about the premium at market and the relative risk, the representation takes place through four graphics:

• Cash Flow: There are represented premium income (green), spent (red) and the difference (yellow) for each expire, the total is represented by the last graph;
  
• Exposition - By Expiry: In this graph are represented, by expires, premium income (green) and the maximum exposure (red)
  
• Exposition - By Underlying: In this graph are represented, by underlying, premium income (green) and the maximum exposure (red);
  
• Commitment: It shows sector exposure of the strategies. The sector can be assigned during the insertion of a new underlying in Symbol Manager.
  

Value at Risk and Margins

This section provides an overview about the impact of the strategy included in the Portfolio on margins. The section is divided into two graphs: one that displays the the “Margins by Strategy” and one, chosen by the user, can visualize the Value At Risk, the Theoretical Margins or the Broker Margins.

• Histogram: there are shown two histograms. The first shows the margin for strategy, the second is the sum of the first therefore the overall portfolio margin. The the margin calculated in Iceberg is the margin required by the Clearing House. At this margin each broker charges an additional percentage, for this reason it is possible to align both the margin of each single strategy (dai Settings della Strategia), and directly on the portfolio margin using the button “Margin Adjustment”.
  
• Pie Chart: It is shown a pie chart that split up among Var of porfolio the Theoretical Margins the l'Adjusted Margins .
  

This section is dedicated to the Greeks. This section is composed by two charts:

• Greeks - At Now Profit/Loss: this charts discompose the “at-now” between the greeks . Take Tenaris as example Tenaris: we can see that the “at now” is -1620 of delta, + 258 of theta and + 1106 of Vega. The sum of these values is the at-now of the strategy which is -258 € (-1620 + 258 + 1106);
• Greeks - Realized Profit/Loss: this chart discompose the consolidation of strategies between the Greeks. Take Tenaris as example: we can see that there is a consolidated of +600 (+313 of Delta, +282 of theta and +5 dof Vega).
  

To the left of the charts is always available a list of the strategies contained in the portfolio with evidence of their values of at now, consolidated, etc.

This section shows the correlation matrix between the underlying strategies in the portfolio. The section is composed of a grid where for each pair of securities is shown the correlation in numeric format. There is also a graph that shows a point for each pair distributed between 1 (maximum correlation) and -1 (maximum inverse correlation).
For more information on linear correlation click here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_at_risk

The margin is the term that identifies the value of the money that are requested by the broker to ensure the counterpart of each derivative contract.
The value of the requested money is the risk of the transaction and will be adjusted, compensate, varying the same risk.
Sell option contracts require margin, the buy don't, because the maximum risk that the buyer take is the premium spent to buy the option .
The seller has an initial margin which change varying market risk and can be compensate buying a different strike of the same typo of options.

the Broker must have to guarantee all the money that could be used at any time to satisfy all parties. This money i pay in to the Clearing House . But it happens that the broker increases the margin required by (CC&G) maybe because it has the most customers which is exposed to a part (uptrend-downtrend). it is evident that the portfolio held by the broker has an overall risk that varies from the sum of the positions therefore the margin required for each client will be, for the same operation, different from Broker and Broker, from one day to another one.

Iceberg calculates the margin of transactions considering every Strategy and thus may significantly deviate from the Broker margin on which the strategies were built

The margin is shown as the following picture where you see three histograms:

• Theorical in green;
• Strategy Adjusted in red;
• Portfolio Adjusted in yellow.

Those coincide at the begin.

1. when the trade is executed you have to determines the margin charged by the broker (for difference whether exist other operations);
2. open the Margin Adjustment window;
3. Insert the amount of step 1.

By now, the margins are aligned and should remain so for the whole duration of the strategy. In case they will change will it will be sufficient to repeat the operation by entering the new amount.

Their use It does not replace the values required by the Broker, but they reflect the true value that you should have.

In the pie chart you can see that the Value at Risk (remember that being the standard measure for assessing the risk of an investment) is greater on Unicredit, while the margin required by the broker is greater for Eni, this is a sign about how the exposure of the broker towards the Clearing House is greater for Eni