Wednesday, August 17, 2011

South-of-the-Border Skew

Risk.net reports that Mexico Carlos Slim has been a dominant driver of Brent crude's recent put skew.  After the recent global equity market schism, reports surfaced that Carlso Slim had shaved over $5B in personal wealth from his portfolio.

Let's rethink this for a moment, or - at least - sharpen the loss figure a bit.

Slim's loss funtion:  min{-max(K-BrentPRICE, 0) + ~$5B,  ~$5B}


"Hedges?!?!  No necemos 'stinkin hedges'!!"


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