Co-Movements of Index Options and Futures Quotes

Dice Center Working Paper Series No. 2005-10

Journal of Empirical Finance, Forthcoming

27 Pages Posted: 15 Apr 2005 Last revised: 8 Aug 2008

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Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Swiss Finance Institute; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Patrik Sandas

University of Virginia; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Date Written: June 1, 2008

Abstract

We report evidence that the co-movements of index options and index futures quotes differ sharply from perfect correlation in periods with option trades. In half-hour intervals with (without) option trades 25% (12%) of call option quote changes have either the opposite sign or are larger in magnitude than the corresponding index futures quote changes. We calibrate a stochastic volatility model that allows for trade and no-trade periods using real data and simulate the joint co-movements of index quotes and option quotes in this model. We show that for trade intervals the observed co-movements differ from the benchmark case established by our simulations approximately three times too often. We provide empirical evidence that market microstructure effects - specifically, stale quotes and aggressive quotes - explain the majority of the deviations from the benchmark. Our findings are relevant for techniques that use estimates of local co-movements as inputs to price or hedge options.

Keywords: Options, Frictions, Market Microstructure, Stale Quotes, Market and Limit Orders

JEL Classification: G13, G14, C33

Suggested Citation

Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger and Sandas, Patrik Vilhelm, Co-Movements of Index Options and Futures Quotes (June 1, 2008). Dice Center Working Paper Series No. 2005-10, Journal of Empirical Finance, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=690722 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.690722

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Patrik Vilhelm Sandas

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