Strips of hourly power options--Approximate hedging using average-based forward contracts

Andreas Lindell and Mikael Raab

Energy Economics, 2009, vol. 31, issue 3, pages 348-355

Abstract: We study approximate hedging strategies for a contingent claim consisting of a strip of independent hourly power options. The payoff of the contingent claim is a sum of the contributing hourly payoffs. As there is no forward market for specific hours, the fundamental problem is to find a reasonable hedge using exchange-traded forward contracts, e.g. average-based monthly contracts. The main result is a simple dynamic hedging strategy that reduces a significant part of the variance. The idea is to decompose the contingent claim into mathematically tractable components and to use empirical estimations to derive hedging deltas. Two benefits of the method are that the technique easily extends to more complex power derivatives and that only a few parameters need to be estimated. The hedging strategy based on the decomposition technique is compared with dynamic delta hedging strategies based on local minimum variance hedging, using a correlated traded asset.

Keywords: Hedging; Power; option; Black76; Swing; option; Local; minimum; variance; hedging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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