CFA Institute Live Webinars Presentation Recorded 18 Feb 2021
Practitioners' Insights: Futures and Options in Indian Markets
Overview
India offers one of the most liquid derivatives markets in the world. Using derivatives demands technical understanding as well as practical know-how. This webinar sheds light on how to protect your portfolio in a market downfall and generate incremental returns over the existing cash equity portfolio.
Following is a quick glimpse on option and futures strategies that you can use to benefit from market volatility. In this webinar, Sourabh Sisodiya shares his insights on using options and futures to manage risk with real examples.
Learning outcomes:
- Discover how to use options to hedge your equity portfolio in a bear market
- Learn how to use a covered call strategy to generate additional income over the existing portfolio
- Discuss what a cash secured put is and how it can be used to buy your desired stocks at a lower level
- Discuss how to use a futures contract to hedge an equity portfolio
This is the archived version of a live webinar that took place on 18 February 2021
About the Speaker(s)
Sourabh Sisodiya, CFA, is the cofounder of Quantify Capital, a quantitative research and trading company (www.quantifycapital.in). Other than trading his own proprietary options trading book, he trains and consults multi-million-dollar hedge funds and large proprietary trading desks on systematic and quant-driven trading and teaches how to leverage the power of algorithms and data science.
Sourabh is a CFA® charterholder and has conducted workshops on quantitative trading at premier institutions like IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIM Bangalore, and Jamnalal Bajaj. He also has been a panelist on CNBC TV-18 and has delivered numerous talks at trading conferences.
Director, Professional Learning and Advocacy, CFA Institute
Shreenivas Kunte is a director of continuing education and advocacy at CFA Institute. In this role, he contributes to thought leadership in the investment management profession. He writes on investing topics in leading publications and represents CFA Institute at conferences and forums. Shreenivas serves as an external research scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Previously, he worked as the country trading strategist for Citi in Tokyo, Japan. He holds a degree in computer engineering from the University of Mumbai.