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A Profit Model for Spread Trading with an Application to Energy Futures

Takashi Kanamura, Svetlozar T Rachev and Frank J Fabozzi
The Journal of Trading Winter 2010, 5 (1) 48-62; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/JOT.2010.5.1.048
Takashi Kanamura
is a researcher at J-POWER in Tokyo, Japan.
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Svetlozar T Rachev
is chair-professor in econometrics, statistics and mathematical finance at the University of Karlsruhe and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany, professor emeritus in the department of statistics and applied probability at the University of California in Santa Barbara, CA, and chief scientist at FinAnalytica in New York, NY.
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Frank J Fabozzi
is a professor in the practice of finance and Becton fellow at the Yale School of Management in New Haven, CT.
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This article proposes a profit model for spread trading by focusing on the stochastic movement of the price spread and its first hitting time probability density. The model is general in that it can be used for any financial instrument. The advantage of the model is that the profit from the trades can be easily calculated if the first hitting time probability density of the stochastic process is given. The authors then modify the profit model for a particular market—the energy futures market. It is shown that energy futures spreads are modeled by using a mean-reverting process. Since the first hitting time probability density of a mean-reverting process is approximately known, the profit model for energy futures price spreads is given in a computable way by using the parameters of the process. Finally, the authors provide empirical evidence for spread trades of energy futures by employing historical prices of energy futures (WTI crude oil, heating oil, and natural gas futures) traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The results suggest that natural gas futures trading may be more profitable than WTI crude oil and heating oil due to its high volatility in addition to its long term mean reversion, which offers supportive evidence of the model prediction.

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A Profit Model for Spread Trading with an Application to Energy Futures
Takashi Kanamura, Svetlozar T Rachev, Frank J Fabozzi
The Journal of Trading Dec 2009, 5 (1) 48-62; DOI: 10.3905/JOT.2010.5.1.048

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A Profit Model for Spread Trading with an Application to Energy Futures
Takashi Kanamura, Svetlozar T Rachev, Frank J Fabozzi
The Journal of Trading Dec 2009, 5 (1) 48-62; DOI: 10.3905/JOT.2010.5.1.048
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