Derivatives and Quantitative Strategist

Gaudenz Schneider

Equity Derivatives

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Implied Volatility Trends: One-month implied volatility for <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/byd-co-ltd-h" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:20962:1" rel="noopener">BYD (1211 HK)</a> has decreased but remains high at 48% (80th percentile), reflecting persistent market uncertainty.</li>
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Skew and Term Structure Dynamics: The volatility term structure is slightly inverted, and a pronounced smile in the skew favors call and put spreads.</li>
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Open Interest Distribution: Liquidity is concentrated in May, June, and December 2025 expiries, with a slight bias towards puts. Open interest peaking at out-of-the-money strikes for both calls and puts.</li>
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Implied Volatility Trends: One-month implied volatility for BYD (1211 HK) has decreased but remains high at 48% (80th percentile), reflecting persistent market uncertainty.

Skew and Term Structure Dynamics: The volatility term structure is slightly inverted, and a pronounced smile in the skew favors call and put spreads.

Open Interest Distribution: Liquidity is concentrated in May, June, and December 2025 expiries, with a slight bias towards puts. Open interest peaking at out-of-the-money strikes for both calls and puts.


BYD (1211 HK): Volatility Smile Signals Opportunity in Spreads

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 analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Apr 17th.</li>
<li>Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period.</li>
<li>We highlight short changes in Anta Sports, Pop Mart, Baba, Trip.Com, HSBC.</li>
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We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Apr 17th.
Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period.
We highlight short changes in Anta Sports, Pop Mart, Baba, Trip.Com, HSBC.


HK Short Interest Weekly: Anta Sports, Pop Mart, Baba, Trip.Com, HSBC

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<li>We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Apr 11th.</li>
<li>Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period. </li>
<li>We highlight short changes in China Mobile, Sinopec, Ishares A50, Smic, CNOOC, Meituan, Kuaishou, Tracker Fund.</li>
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We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Apr 11th.
Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period. 
We highlight short changes in China Mobile, Sinopec, Ishares A50, Smic, CNOOC, Meituan, Kuaishou, Tracker Fund.


HK Short Interest Weekly: China Mobile, Sinopec, Smic, CNOOC, Meituan, Kuaishou

Index Rebal Trades & Special Situations, Quiddity Advisors

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Index Rebal Trades & Special Situations

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Index Rebalance

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<li>The HSTECH Index tracks the performance of the top 30 technology companies listed in Hong Kong that have high business exposure to certain technology themes.</li>
<li>In this insight, we take a look at the flow expectations for the June 2025 index rebal event.</li>
<li>We expect no index changes for June 2025 but we estimate there to be US$1.53bn in one-way flows which translates to a turnover of 7.4%.</li>
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The HSTECH Index tracks the performance of the top 30 technology companies listed in Hong Kong that have high business exposure to certain technology themes.
In this insight, we take a look at the flow expectations for the June 2025 index rebal event.
We expect no index changes for June 2025 but we estimate there to be US$1.53bn in one-way flows which translates to a turnover of 7.4%.


Quiddity Leaderboard HSTECH Jun25: US$1.5bn One-Way; Large Inflow for Net Ease

<ul>
<li>We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Apr 3rd.</li>
<li>Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period. </li>
<li>We highlight short changes in Tracker Fund, Pop Mart, Beigene, Hscei Etf, Xiaomi.</li>
</ul>


We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Apr 3rd.
Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period. 
We highlight short changes in Tracker Fund, Pop Mart, Beigene, Hscei Etf, Xiaomi.


HK Short Interest Weekly: Pop Mart, Beigene, Xiaomi

China

Li Auto Inc. manufactures automobiles. The Company designs, develops, and sells smart new energy electric sport utility vehicles. Li Auto conducts businesses in China.

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Li Auto (2015 HK)

BYD (1211 HK): Volatility Smile Signals Opportunity in Spreads

Implied volatility for BYD (1211 HK) remains high at 48%, skew favors call and put spreads, and open interest is concentrated in specific expiries...

Gaudenz Schneider

HK Short Interest Weekly: Anta Sports, Pop Mart, Baba, Trip.Com, HSBC

We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Apr 17th and highlight short interest changes in Anta Sports, Pop Mart,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

HK Short Interest Weekly: China Mobile, Sinopec, Smic, CNOOC, Meituan, Kuaishou

We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Apr 11th and highlight short interest changes in China Mobile, Sinopec,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Quiddity Leaderboard HSTECH Jun25: US$1.5bn One-Way; Large Inflow for Net Ease

Collectively, we expect more than US$1bn index inflows for NetEase (9999 HK), Baidu (9888 HK), Trip.com Group (9961 HK), and NIO (9866 HK) from...

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

HK Short Interest Weekly: Pop Mart, Beigene, Xiaomi

We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Apr 3rd and highlight short interest changes in Tracker Fund, Pop Mart,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

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BYD (1211 HK): Volatility Smile Signals Opportunity in Spreads

​Implied volatility for BYD (1211 HK) remains high at 48%, skew favors call and put spreads, and open interest is concentrated in specific expiries...

Gaudenz Schneider

HK Short Interest Weekly: Anta Sports, Pop Mart, Baba, Trip.Com, HSBC

We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Apr 17th and highlight short interest changes in Anta Sports, Pop Mart,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

HK Short Interest Weekly: China Mobile, Sinopec, Smic, CNOOC, Meituan, Kuaishou

We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Apr 11th and highlight short interest changes in China Mobile, Sinopec,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Quiddity Leaderboard HSTECH Jun25: US$1.5bn One-Way; Large Inflow for Net Ease

Collectively, we expect more than US$1bn index inflows for NetEase (9999 HK), Baidu (9888 HK), Trip.com Group (9961 HK), and NIO (9866 HK) from...

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

HK Short Interest Weekly: Pop Mart, Beigene, Xiaomi

We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Apr 3rd and highlight short interest changes in Tracker Fund, Pop Mart,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Implied volatility for BYD (1211 HK) remains high at 48%, skew favors call and put spreads, and open interest is concentrated in specific expiries...