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>With over 85% of the review period complete, there could be 10 changes for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kosdaq-150-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31077:1" rel="noopener">KOSDAQ 150 Index (KOSDQ150 INDEX)</a> at the December rebalance.</li>
<li>Even with 10 potential changes, there is sector balance with half the changes in the Information Technology sector. Passive trading impact varies from 0.2-7.7x ADV.</li>
<li>The potential adds have outperformed the potential deletes and the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kosdaq-150-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31077:1" rel="noopener">KOSDAQ150 Index</a> since the start of the review period, though there has been a gentle drift lower since July.</li>
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With over 85% of the review period complete, there could be 10 changes for the KOSDAQ 150 Index (KOSDQ150 INDEX) at the December rebalance.
Even with 10 potential changes, there is sector balance with half the changes in the Information Technology sector. Passive trading impact varies from 0.2-7.7x ADV.
The potential adds have outperformed the potential deletes and the KOSDAQ150 Index since the start of the review period, though there has been a gentle drift lower since July.


KOSDAQ150 Index Rebalance Preview: 10 Changes in December

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<li>With just over a third of the review period complete, there could be 12 changes for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kosdaq-150-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31077:1" rel="noopener">KOSDAQ 150 Index (KOSDQ150 INDEX EQUITY)</a> at the December rebalance.</li>
<li>Even with 12 potential changes, there is sector balance with over half the changes in the Information Technology sector. Passive trading impact varies from 0.04-4.1x ADV.</li>
<li>The potential adds have outperformed the potential deletes and the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kosdaq-150-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31077:1" rel="noopener">KOSDAQ 150 Index (KOSDQ150 INDEX)</a> since the start of the year with a big move higher since mid-May.</li>
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With just over a third of the review period complete, there could be 12 changes for the KOSDAQ 150 Index (KOSDQ150 INDEX EQUITY) at the December rebalance.
Even with 12 potential changes, there is sector balance with over half the changes in the Information Technology sector. Passive trading impact varies from 0.04-4.1x ADV.
The potential adds have outperformed the potential deletes and the KOSDAQ 150 Index (KOSDQ150 INDEX) since the start of the year with a big move higher since mid-May.


KOSDAQ150 Index Rebalance Preview: For Now, A Dozen Changes in December

Korea / Special Situations, Clepsydra Capital

Sanghyun Park

Korea / Special Situations

Korea / Special Sits, Pairs, Index Rebalancing

Clepsydra Capital

Investigate special situations, pairs, and index rebalancing trades in Korea.

Event-Driven

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<li>Here are the top 30 most shorted stocks on KOSPI 200 over the last five trading days, by short-selling volume as a % of the accumulated trade volume.</li>
<li>I then sorted out those with a short-selling volume exceeding 10% of the accumulated trade volume during these five trading days and a 30-day ADTV of +₩3B.</li>
<li>And another additional condition was an increase in the loan balance during the same period. As a result, six names came up as having a high potential of price decline.</li>
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Here are the top 30 most shorted stocks on KOSPI 200 over the last five trading days, by short-selling volume as a % of the accumulated trade volume.
I then sorted out those with a short-selling volume exceeding 10% of the accumulated trade volume during these five trading days and a 30-day ADTV of +₩3B.
And another additional condition was an increase in the loan balance during the same period. As a result, six names came up as having a high potential of price decline.


Most Shorted Stocks on KOSDAQ 150 in Last 5 Days

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

<p>In this insight, we discuss the top 50 most shorted stocks in KOSPI and KOSDAQ, respectively in terms of Short Sale Volume/Free Float Volume, respectively. The KRX provides updated short sale data in terms of short sale volume amount/market cap. However, it does not provide the data in terms of free float basis which is probably a better figure to use when analyzing the short sale data. </p><p>We divided the tables for the KOSPI and KOSDAQ short sale volume into two parts. </p><ul>
<li>First, the 50 stocks are ranked in order of the short sale volume/free float volume ratio.</li>
<li>Second, because many institutional investors deal with larger market cap companies, we included only those companies with more than 1 trillion won in market cap. We also included data on the changes in the foreign ownership YTD. </li>
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In this insight, we discuss the top 50 most shorted stocks in KOSPI and KOSDAQ, respectively in terms of Short Sale Volume/Free Float Volume, respectively. The KRX provides updated short sale data in terms of short sale volume amount/market cap. However, it does not provide the data in terms of free float basis which is probably a better figure to use when analyzing the short sale data. We divided the tables for the KOSPI and KOSDAQ short sale volume into two parts. 
First, the 50 stocks are ranked in order of the short sale volume/free float volume ratio.
Second, because many institutional investors deal with larger market cap companies, we included only those companies with more than 1 trillion won in market cap. We also included data on the changes in the foreign ownership YTD. 


Top 50 Most Shorted Stocks in KOSPI & KOSDAQ (Short Sale Vol/Free Float Vol)

Equity Capital Markets

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<p>Nepes Ark is getting ready to complete its IPO in November in the Korean stock market. The IPO price range is 23,400 won to 26,500 won. The IPO base deal size is from $47 million to $53 million. The company provides test equipment for semiconductor wafer and packages from chipmakers and foundries. The company's manufacturing facility is located at Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province.</p>
<p>Samsung Electronics and LG Display are key customers of Nepes Ark, which is a split-off of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nepes-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:9303:1" rel="noopener">Nepes Corp (033640 KS)</a>'s semiconductor business. Nepes Corp has a 73.49% stake in Nepes Ark. The split-off &amp; establishment of Nepes Ark was effective as of 1 April 2019. <br> </p>
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Nepes Ark is getting ready to complete its IPO in November in the Korean stock market. The IPO price range is 23,400 won to 26,500 won. The IPO base deal size is from $47 million to $53 million. The company provides test equipment for semiconductor wafer and packages from chipmakers and foundries. The company's manufacturing facility is located at Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province.
Samsung Electronics and LG Display are key customers of Nepes Ark, which is a split-off of Nepes Corp (033640 KS)'s semiconductor business. Nepes Corp has a 73.49% stake in Nepes Ark. The split-off &amp; establishment of Nepes Ark was effective as of 1 April 2019.   


South Korea

NEPES Corp. manufactures semiconductors, such as driver integrated circuits (IC) for thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD).  The Company also manufactures fine chemicals for semiconductors, such as developers, stripper, slurry, and solvents and constructs clean rooms.

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Nepes Corp (033640 KS)

KOSDAQ150 Index Rebalance Preview: 10 Changes in December

There could be 10 changes for the index in December. Passive trading impact varies from 0.2-7.7x ADV. The adds have outperformed the deletes since...

Brian Freitas

KOSDAQ150 Index Rebalance Preview: For Now, A Dozen Changes in December

There could be 12 changes for the KOSDAQ150 Index in December. The potential adds have outperformed the potential deletes and the KOSDAQ150 Index...

Brian Freitas

Most Shorted Stocks on KOSDAQ 150 in Last 5 Days

This post examines the most shorted stocks on KOSDAQ 150 and sorts out six names as having a high potential of price decline.

Sanghyun Park

Top 50 Most Shorted Stocks in KOSPI & KOSDAQ (Short Sale Vol/Free Float Vol)

In this insight, we discuss the top 50 most shorted stocks in KOSPI and KOSDAQ, respectively in terms of Short Sale Volume/Free Float Volume,...

Douglas Kim

Nepes Ark IPO Preview

Nepes Ark is getting ready to complete its IPO in November in the Korean stock market. The IPO price range is 23,400 won to 26,500 won. The IPO...

Douglas Kim

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