Derivatives and Quantitative Strategist

Gaudenz Schneider

Equity Derivatives

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HKEX Expands Weekly Options: Five new single-stock weeklies debut on 10 November, broadening Hong Kong’s fast-growing short-dated options market.</li>
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Why It Matters: Weeklies let traders and investors hedge or speculate around key events with precision, lower premiums, and higher gamma exposure.</li>
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Momentum: Trading volumes in existing weeklies have surged—up nearly fourfold since launch—underscoring rising investor adoption and liquidity.</li>
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HKEX Expands Weekly Options: Five new single-stock weeklies debut on 10 November, broadening Hong Kong’s fast-growing short-dated options market.

Why It Matters: Weeklies let traders and investors hedge or speculate around key events with precision, lower premiums, and higher gamma exposure.

Momentum: Trading volumes in existing weeklies have surged—up nearly fourfold since launch—underscoring rising investor adoption and liquidity.


HKEX Adds Five New Weekly Options on 10 Nov: AIA, China Mobile, Xiaomi Join Fast-Growing Line-Up

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech, Aequitas Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China biotech

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analysed the earning revision of component stocks of HSI in the past month.</li>
<li>We tabulated stocks with the top impact on index's EPS, stocks' EPS revision, and revenue revision.</li>
<li>We highlighted EPS revision on Pop Mart Intl, WUXI APPTEC, MEITUAN, PING AN INSURANCE, JD.COM, China Life, China Life, Ping An, Pop Mart, Meituan, Jd, Wuxi Apptec.</li>
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We analysed the earning revision of component stocks of HSI in the past month.
We tabulated stocks with the top impact on index's EPS, stocks' EPS revision, and revenue revision.
We highlighted EPS revision on Pop Mart Intl, WUXI APPTEC, MEITUAN, PING AN INSURANCE, JD.COM, China Life, China Life, Ping An, Pop Mart, Meituan, Jd, Wuxi Apptec.


HSI Index Earning Revision (Oct): Pop Mart Intl, WUXI APPTEC, MEITUAN, PING AN INSURANCE, JD.COM

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Index Rebalance

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<li>The increase in the stock price over the last 3 months could result in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ubtech-robotics-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36469:1" rel="noopener">UBTech Robotics (9880 HK)</a> being added to a global index in November.</li>
<li>There is a fair amount to buy in the stock and cumulative excess volume has picked up since July. Short interest has dropped over the same period.</li>
<li>The recent drop in the stock price provides a better entry point for a short-term trade as positioning builds up ahead of the potential passive buying.</li>
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The increase in the stock price over the last 3 months could result in UBTech Robotics (9880 HK) being added to a global index in November.
There is a fair amount to buy in the stock and cumulative excess volume has picked up since July. Short interest has dropped over the same period.
The recent drop in the stock price provides a better entry point for a short-term trade as positioning builds up ahead of the potential passive buying.


UBTech Robotics (9880 HK): Global Index Inclusion Likely in November

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<li>After a huge upward move earlier this year, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/remegen-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29191:1" rel="noopener">Remegen (9995 HK)</a>'s stock has started to drop as the sector starts to give back some of its gains. </li>
<li>Despite the recent correction, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/remegen-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29191:1" rel="noopener">Remegen (9995 HK)</a> should be added to a global index in November and that could help the stock outperform its peers.</li>
<li>There appears to be a lot of positioning in the stock, but we see a similar trend across stocks in the industry.</li>
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After a huge upward move earlier this year, Remegen (9995 HK)'s stock has started to drop as the sector starts to give back some of its gains. 
Despite the recent correction, Remegen (9995 HK) should be added to a global index in November and that could help the stock outperform its peers.
There appears to be a lot of positioning in the stock, but we see a similar trend across stocks in the industry.


Remegen (9995 HK): Index Inclusion as Sector Starts to Drop

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

David Blennerhassett

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>The prior MO for the Jardines group was never sell your commercial buildings. This year marks a paradigm shift in that line of thinking. </li>
<li>First <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hongkong-land-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:15465:1" rel="noopener">Hongkong Land (HKL SP)</a> sold nine floors of One Exchange Square to <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hong-kong-exchanges-clearing" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:490:1" rel="noopener">HKEX (388 HK)</a>. The first such sale since 1988.</li>
<li>Now <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/mandarin-oriental-international-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4773:1" rel="noopener">Mandarin Oriental (MAND SP)</a> is negotiating the sale of "certain office space" at One Causeway Bay. <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/jardine-matheson-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:19718:1" rel="noopener">Jardine Matheson (JM SP)</a>'s NAV discount and implied stub are at 12-month lows/highs.</li>
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The prior MO for the Jardines group was never sell your commercial buildings. This year marks a paradigm shift in that line of thinking. 
First Hongkong Land (HKL SP) sold nine floors of One Exchange Square to HKEX (388 HK). The first such sale since 1988.
Now Mandarin Oriental (MAND SP) is negotiating the sale of "certain office space" at One Causeway Bay. Jardine Matheson (JM SP)'s NAV discount and implied stub are at 12-month lows/highs.


Jardine Matheson (JML SP): Additional Office Recycling Speculated

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Limited owns and operates the stock exchange, futures exchange, and their related clearing houses in Hong Kong.  The Company provides the trading platforms for a range of cash and derivatives products and the facilities for processing trades.

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HKEX (388 HK)

HKEX Adds Five New Weekly Options on 10 Nov: AIA, China Mobile, Xiaomi Join Fast-Growing Line-Up

Today, Weekly Options debut in Xiaomi (1810 HK), AIA Group (1299 HK), SMIC (981 HK), China Mobile (941 HK), and CNOOC (883 HK).

Gaudenz Schneider

HSI Index Earning Revision (Oct): Pop Mart Intl, WUXI APPTEC, MEITUAN, PING AN INSURANCE, JD.COM

We analyzed HSI's consensus for Oct 2025 and highlighted changes of EPS in Pop Mart Intl (9992 HK), WUXI APPTEC (2359 HK), MEITUAN (3690 HK), PING...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

UBTech Robotics (9880 HK): Global Index Inclusion Likely in November

UBTech Robotics could be added to a global index in November. The stock is up, short interest is down, and there is positioning. The drop in the...

Brian Freitas

Remegen (9995 HK): Index Inclusion as Sector Starts to Drop

Remegen could be added to a global index in November. The stock has dropped recently and provides a better entry point. Peers have been dropping...

Brian Freitas

Jardine Matheson (JML SP): Additional Office Recycling Speculated

MAND announced that it is selling thirteen floors of One Causeway Bay (OCB) to Alibaba (BABA US) for US$925mn. That's ~US$0.73/share. ...

David Blennerhassett

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