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243: Moritz Seibert – Extreme Edge: Exploiting a Structural Inefficiency

Sep 27, 2022
01:11:00

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Quick takeaways

  • Moritz Seibert discovered an opportunity to exploit a price discrepancy in DAX warrants by buying from banks and selling on the exchange for profit.
  • Moritz took advantage of banks' slow updating of volatility surfaces to identify mispriced warrants and profit from their eventual price adjustment.

Deep dives

The Market Inefficiency: Tight Bit/Ask Spread in Warrants

Moritz discovered that the banks were quoting a too tight bit/ask spread for DAX warrants compared to the fair market spread. This created an opportunity for him to exploit the price discrepancy by buying warrants from the banks and selling them on the exchange for a profit.

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