Derivatives and Quantitative Strategist

Gaudenz Schneider

Equity Derivatives

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Context: Volatility cones provide a clear framework to evaluate whether options are trading cheap or rich.</li>
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Highlights: Implied volatility has increased across the board, but while some stocks recorded a 5-10% increase, other just added 1-2%. Upcoming November earnings start to shape the term structure.</li>
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Why Read: Spot opportunities, assess regime shifts, and manage risk effectively — volatility cones turn complex data into actionable insights for traders and investors.</li>
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Context: Volatility cones provide a clear framework to evaluate whether options are trading cheap or rich.

Highlights: Implied volatility has increased across the board, but while some stocks recorded a 5-10% increase, other just added 1-2%. Upcoming November earnings start to shape the term structure.

Why Read: Spot opportunities, assess regime shifts, and manage risk effectively — volatility cones turn complex data into actionable insights for traders and investors.


HK Volatility Cones: Volatility on the Rise, Meituan and Ping An Historically Cheap

Equity Bottom-Up

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Context: This Insight follows up on previously highlighted relative value opportunities, using a statistical methodology based on mean-reversion to identify opportunities in paired securities.</li>
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Highlights: Currently nine pair trade opportunities across four markets and four sectors persist.</li>
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Why read: Statistical analysis offers a unique perspective on relative value. Gain insights into actionable statistical pair trade opportunities and monitor performance of previously highlighted pairs.</li>
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Context: This Insight follows up on previously highlighted relative value opportunities, using a statistical methodology based on mean-reversion to identify opportunities in paired securities.

Highlights: Currently nine pair trade opportunities across four markets and four sectors persist.

Why read: Statistical analysis offers a unique perspective on relative value. Gain insights into actionable statistical pair trade opportunities and monitor performance of previously highlighted pairs.


Relative Value Opportunities in Asia-Pac, Pair Trade Roundup (15 Sep)

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>Gross SOUTHBOUND volumes just under US$20+bn a day this past 5-day week. BIG Net buying. Big BABA trading. </li>
<li>SOUTHBOUND investors traded US$9bn of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/alibaba-group-holding-ltd-d7b798e2-202d-4e01-9a1e-799e2ae8f0c7" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28434:1" rel="noopener">Alibaba (9988 HK)</a> in the week. Not shy. It was a big net buy as well (4 of 5 days was +US$500mm or more).</li>
<li>The data tables below update on a daily basis in the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/tools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tools</a> section of Smartkarma. The <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/tools/quiddity/south-flow-monitor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SOUTHBOUND Flow Monitor</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/tools/quiddity/ah-shares-monitor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AH Pairs Monitor</a> are both there for all SK readers.</li>
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Gross SOUTHBOUND volumes just under US$20+bn a day this past 5-day week. BIG Net buying. Big BABA trading. 
SOUTHBOUND investors traded US$9bn of Alibaba (9988 HK) in the week. Not shy. It was a big net buy as well (4 of 5 days was +US$500mm or more).
The data tables below update on a daily basis in the Tools section of Smartkarma. The SOUTHBOUND Flow Monitor and AH Pairs Monitor are both there for all SK readers.


HK Connect SOUTHBOUND Flows (To 12 Sep 2025); HUGE Single Stock Trading, ETFs Meh. Tech Bought Bigly

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 Sep 5th.</li>
<li>Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period.</li>
<li>We highlight short changes in Horizon Robotics, Tencent, CCB, Shandong Gold Mining.</li>
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We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Sep 5th.
Top short increases and decreases were tabulated for one week and four week period.
We highlight short changes in Horizon Robotics, Tencent, CCB, Shandong Gold Mining.


HK Short Interest Weekly: Horizon Robotics, Tencent, CCB, Shandong Gold Mining

Asia L/S Equity PM/Macro/Thematic Idea Generation

Rikki Malik

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<li>A review of recent events/data impacting our investment themes and outlook</li>
<li>Change of mindset needed for HK/China as the bull markets broadens out</li>
<li>Signs of excess are rife in many global markets, but no top yet signalled.</li>
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A review of recent events/data impacting our investment themes and outlook
Change of mindset needed for HK/China as the bull markets broadens out
Signs of excess are rife in many global markets, but no top yet signalled.


Overview #34 – China Rocks On: Bull Market Rules

China

Tencent Holdings Limited operates as an investment holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides Internet and mobile value-added services (VAS), online advertising, and e-commerce transactions. Tencent Holdings offers services to users worldwide.

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HK Volatility Cones: Volatility on the Rise, Meituan and Ping An Historically Cheap

Volatility cones for 8 popular HK stocks help traders and investors spot opportunities. The IV term structure is increasingly shaped by the...

Gaudenz Schneider

Relative Value Opportunities in Asia-Pac, Pair Trade Roundup (15 Sep)

Statistical methodology identifies nine pair trade opportunities across four markets and four sectors, offering unique insights into relative value.

Gaudenz Schneider

HK Connect SOUTHBOUND Flows (To 12 Sep 2025); HUGE Single Stock Trading, ETFs Meh. Tech Bought Bigly

Another BIG week of SOUTHBOUND two-way trade flows in HK with a VERY big week of net buying. Alibaba was the big gross traded stock and net bought...

Travis Lundy

HK Short Interest Weekly: Horizon Robotics, Tencent, CCB, Shandong Gold Mining

We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Sep 5th and highlight short interest changes in Horizon Robotics, Tencent,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Overview #34 – China Rocks On: Bull Market Rules

A review of recent events/data impacting our investment themes and outlook. We look at some new additions in Chinese tech as the bull market broadens

Rikki Malik

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HK Volatility Cones: Volatility on the Rise, Meituan and Ping An Historically Cheap

Volatility cones for 8 popular HK stocks help traders and investors spot opportunities. The IV term structure is increasingly shaped by the...

Gaudenz Schneider

Relative Value Opportunities in Asia-Pac, Pair Trade Roundup (15 Sep)

​Statistical methodology identifies nine pair trade opportunities across four markets and four sectors, offering unique insights into relative value.

Gaudenz Schneider

HK Connect SOUTHBOUND Flows (To 12 Sep 2025); HUGE Single Stock Trading, ETFs Meh. Tech Bought Bigly

Another BIG week of SOUTHBOUND two-way trade flows in HK with a VERY big week of net buying. Alibaba was the big gross traded stock and net bought...

Travis Lundy

HK Short Interest Weekly: Horizon Robotics, Tencent, CCB, Shandong Gold Mining

We analyzed the latest HK SFC report for aggregate short position as of Sep 5th and highlight short interest changes in Horizon Robotics, Tencent,...

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Overview #34 – China Rocks On: Bull Market Rules

A review of recent events/data impacting our investment themes and outlook. We look at some new additions in Chinese tech as the bull market broadens

Rikki Malik

Statistical methodology identifies nine pair trade opportunities across four markets and four sectors, offering unique insights into relative value.