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Gamma hedging : A First Attempt
Issued on June 02 2010 par Strategies-Options.com

Delta hedging provides a way to hedge for small spot variations.
I - Delta hedgng and its limitset

We saw that delta hedging hedge a portfolio only for small variations and for a small period.
That means that hedge is a partial hedge.



II - Option gamma

Gamma is the rate of change of an option delta to a spot variation.
It's often expressed as a derivative of delta with respect to the spot or the second derivative of an option price with respect to the spot.

A Taylor expansion of our option Value V which depends on S the spot leads to :



Hence,


In trading terms:


Option Price Variation = ∆ * (Spot Variation) + (0.5) * (Г) * (Spot Variation)²


Option Variation is a function of the option delta and the option gamma.


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