For internationally oriented firms or individuals that choose to eliminate the effects of fluctuating exchange rates, either currency forward contracts or currency futures can be used to fulfil this requirement. Both tools essentially lock in prospective exchange rates, thereby eliminating both...

The paper presents a new approach to optimizing automatic transactional systems. We propose a multi-stage technique which enables us to find investment strategies beating the market. Additionally, new measures of combined risk and returns are applied in the process of optimization. Moreover, we...

This paper compares option pricing models, based on the Black model (Black, 1976), with particular emphasis on volatility measures and estimators applied in the process of valuation. We calculate the Black model with historical (BHV), implied (BIV) and several different types of realized (BRV)...

The main idea of this research is to check the efficiency of the Black option pricing model on the basis of HF emerging market data. However, liquidity constraints - a typical feature of an emerging derivatives market - put severe limits for conducting such a study. That is the reason why we...

Option pricing models are the main subject of many research papers prepared both in academia and financial industry. We check the properties of option pricing models with different assumptions concerning the volatility process (historical, realized, implied, stochastic or GARCH model). For this...

The paper empirically analyzes stock market integration and the benefit possibilities of international portfolio diversification across the Southeast Asia (ASEAN) and U.S. equity markets. It employs daily sample of 6 ASEAN equity market indices and S&P 500 index as a proxy of U.S. market index...

In this paper, we compared several Black option pricing models by applying different measures of volatility and examined the Black model with historical (BHV), implied (BIV), and several different types of realized (BRV) volatility. The main objective of the study was to find the best model;...

This paper focuses on one of the heavily tested issue in the contemporary finance, i.e. efficient market hypothesis (EMH). However, we try to find the answers to some fundamental questions basing on the analysis of high frequency (HF) data from the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE). We estimate model...

Integrated Trend Analysis is an attempt to study and analysis the diverse forces which affect the price of a security with the help of Triple Trend Oscillator (TTO). TTO is a trend following oscillator devised to identify the exact technical strength of a stock or indices over multiple...

The paper presents the new approach to optimizing automatic transactional systems. We propose the multi-stage technique which enables us to find investment strategies beating the market. Additionally, new measures of combined risk and returns are applied in the process of optimization. Moreover,...