• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.235-261
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• 2003

We examine the relationship between the trading activities of Korea Stock Price Index (KOSPI) 200 futures contract and its underlying stock market volatility for about six years from May 1996 when the futures contract was introduced. The trading activities of the futures contracts are proxied by the volume and open interest, which are divided into expected and unexpected portions by using the previous data. The daily, intradilay, and overnight cash volatility is estimated by the GJR-GARCH model. We find a positive contemporaneous relationship between the intradaily stock market volatility and the unexpected futures volume while the relationship between the volatility and expected futures volume is weakly negative or non-existent. We also find that the unexpected futures volume strongly causes intradaily cash volatility. On the other hand, the overnight cash volatility causes the unexpected futures volume. The impulse responses between these variables are all positive. The result implies that during a trading time futures trading tends to increase the cash volatility while the unexpected overnight changes in cash volatility tends to increase the futures trading activities. We, however, find no association between the cash volatility and futures maturities.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.1449-1466
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• 2014

In this paper, we consider a hedge portfolio based on futures of underlying asset. A classical way to estimate a hedge ratio for a hedge portfolio of a spot and futures is a regression analysis. However, a regression analysis is not capable of reflecting long-run equilibrium between a spot and futures and volatility clustering in the conditional variance of financial time series. In order to overcome such defects, we analyzed KOSPI200 index and futures using VECM-CC-GARCH model and computed a hedge ratio from the estimated conditional covariance-variance matrix. In real data analysis, we compared a regression and VECM-CC-GARCH models in terms of hedge effectiveness based on variance, value at risk and expected shortfall of log-returns of hedge portfolio. The empirical results show that the multivariate GARCH models significantly outperform a regression analysis and improve hedging effectiveness in the period of high volatility.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.189-207
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• 2013

Using high-frequency data for 2 years, this study investigates intraday lead-lag relationship between stock index and stock index futures markets in Korea and China. We found that there are some differences in price discovery and volatility transmission between Korea and China after the stock index futures markets was introduced. Following Stoll-Whaley(1990) and Chan(1992), the multiple regression is estimated to examine the lead-lag patterns between the two markets by Newey-West's(1987) heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent covariance matrix(HAC matrix). Empirical results of KOSPI 200 shows that the futures market leads the cash market and weak evidence that the cash market leads the futures market. New market information disseminates in the futures market before the stock market with index arbitrageurs then stepping in quickly to bring the cost-of-carry relation back into alignment. The regression tests for the conditional volatility which is estimated using EGARCH model do not show that there is a clear pattern of the futures market leading the stock market in terms of the volatility even though controlling nonsynchronous trading effects. This implies that information in price innovations that originate in the futures market is transmitted to the volatility of the cash market. Empirical results of CSI 300 shows that the cash market is found to play a more dominant role in the price discovery process after the Chinese index started a sharp decline immediately after the stock index futures were introduced. The new stock index futures markets does not function well in its price discovery performance at its infancy stage, apparently due to high barriers to entry into this emerging futures markets. Based on EGAECH model, the results uncover strong bi-directional dependence in the intraday volatility of both markets.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.141-169
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• 1997

본 논문은 시장개설 초기 4개월간의 주가지수 선물수익률과 기초자산인 현물(KOSPI 200) 수익률간의 선도-지연효과를 두 개의 모형을 이용하여 실증검증하였다. 첫 번째 모형은 설명 변수로 선물수익률의 시차변수를 사용하고 종속변수로 현물수익률을 사용했다. 두 번째 모형은 설명변수로 선물수익률의 시차변수를 사용하는 것은 첫 번째 모형과 같으나 종속변수로 ARMA모형에서 구한 현물수익률의 오차항(return innovations)을 사용하였다. 또, 여러 시장조건에서 현물수익률과 선물수익률사이의 선도-지연효과가 특정한 양상을 보이는가를 분석하였다. 좋은 정보와 나쁜 정보, 거래량이 많은 경우와 적은 경우, 변동성이 높은 경우와 낮은 경우로 나누어서 선도-지연효과를 살펴보았다. 실증검증의 결과 KOSPI 200 현물수익률은 ARMA(2,3) 모형이 적합하며 선물이 현물을 10분 이내로 선도한다. 하지만 그 관계는 일방적인 것이 아니어서 15분후에는 현물이 선물을 선도하는 피드백(feed-back) 현상이 나타났다. 좋은 정보(good news)에서는 선물이 현물을 5분정도 선도하고 나쁜 정보(bad news)하에서는 선물 선도현상이 약해진다. 보통 정보(morderate news)하에서는 현물이 선물을 10분내로 선도한다. 거래량이 많은 경우와 변동성이 높은 경우에는 선물이 현물을 선도하는 것이 뚜렷하나 거래량이 적은 경우와 변동성이 낮은 경우에는 선물과 현물간에는 특정한 선도-지연현상이 나타나지 않는다.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.205-229
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• 2004

The deviation from put-call parity condition may affect market prices since it provides an opportunity of arbitrage to many participants. This study uses the KOSPI200 index data and examines the interdependence among spot, futures, and options contracts by examining whether the deviations from the parity have significant roles in price formation. Whenever the parity condition is violated, the deviation tends to affect the prices significantly in most markets. The results show that positive values of deviation are associated with the fall of the prices in the spot and put option contracts and the rise of the call option premiums, thus decreasing the deviations. Also, the decreasing impact of deviations lasts for at Beast an hour in most markets. Futures prices, however, do not show clear relations with the deviations, which suggests the possibility that futures markets lead other markets.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.107-134
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• 2007

This paper tests the relationship among returns, volatilities, contracts and open interests of KOSPI 200 futures markets with the various dynamic models such as granger-causality, impulse response, variance decomposition and ARMA(1, 1)-GJR-GARCH(1, 1)-M. The sample period is from July 7, 1998 to December 29, 2005. The main empirical results are as follows; First, both contract change and open interest change of KOSPI 200 futures market tend to lead the returns of that according to the results of granger-causality, impulse response and variance decomposition with VAR. These results are likely to support the KOSPI 200 futures market seems to be inefficient with rejecting the hypothesis 1. Second, we also find that the returns and volatilities of the KOSPI 200 futures market are effected by both contract change and open interest change of that due to the results of ARMA(1,1)-GJR-GARCH(1,1)-M. These results also reject the hypothesis 1 and 2 suggesting the evidences of inefficiency of the KOSPI 200 futures market. Third, the study shows the asymmetric information effects among the variables. In addition, we can find the feedback relationship between the contract change and open interest change of KOSPI 200 futures market.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.187-201
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• 2011

KOSPI200 index is the Korean stock price index consisting of actively traded 200 stocks in the Korean stock market. Its base value of 100 was set on January 3, 1990. The Korea Exchange (KRX) developed derivatives markets on the KOSPI200 index. KOSPI200 index futures market, introduced in 1996, has become one of the most actively traded indexes markets in the world. Traders can make profit by entering a long position on the KOSPI200 index futures contract if the KOSPI200 index will rise in the future. Likewise, they can make profit by entering a short position if the KOSPI200 index will decline in the future. Basically, KOSPI200 index futures trading is a short-term zero-sum game and therefore most futures traders are using technical indicators. Advanced traders make stable profits by using system trading technique, also known as algorithm trading. Algorithm trading uses computer programs for receiving real-time stock market data, analyzing stock price movements with various technical indicators and automatically entering trading orders such as timing, price or quantity of the order without any human intervention. Recent studies have shown the usefulness of artificial intelligent systems in forecasting stock prices or investment risk. KOSPI200 index data is numerical time-series data which is a sequence of data points measured at successive uniform time intervals such as minute, day, week or month. KOSPI200 index futures traders use technical analysis to find out some patterns on the time-series chart. Although there are many technical indicators, their results indicate the market states among bull, bear and flat. Most strategies based on technical analysis are divided into trend following strategy and non-trend following strategy. Both strategies decide the market states based on the patterns of the KOSPI200 index time-series data. This goes well with Markov model (MM). Everybody knows that the next price is upper or lower than the last price or similar to the last price, and knows that the next price is influenced by the last price. However, nobody knows the exact status of the next price whether it goes up or down or flat. So, hidden Markov model (HMM) is better fitted than MM. HMM is divided into discrete HMM (DHMM) and continuous HMM (CHMM). The only difference between DHMM and CHMM is in their representation of state probabilities. DHMM uses discrete probability density function and CHMM uses continuous probability density function such as Gaussian Mixture Model. KOSPI200 index values are real number and these follow a continuous probability density function, so CHMM is proper than DHMM for the KOSPI200 index. In this paper, we present an artificial intelligent trading system based on CHMM for the KOSPI200 index futures system traders. Traders have experienced on technical trading for the KOSPI200 index futures market ever since the introduction of the KOSPI200 index futures market. They have applied many strategies to make profit in trading the KOSPI200 index futures. Some strategies are based on technical indicators such as moving averages or stochastics, and others are based on candlestick patterns such as three outside up, three outside down, harami or doji star. We show a trading system of moving average cross strategy based on CHMM, and we compare it to a traditional algorithmic trading system. We set the parameter values of moving averages at common values used by market practitioners. Empirical results are presented to compare the simulation performance with the traditional algorithmic trading system using long-term daily KOSPI200 index data of more than 20 years. Our suggested trading system shows higher trading performance than naive system trading.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.289-318
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• 1997

본 논문에서는 1996년 5월 3일에 한국에서 주가지수선물거래가 시작된 이후 선물가격 형성이 적정하게 이루어지고 있는지를 검증하기 위하여 실제 선물가격과 이론가치를 비교하고 차익거래 기회와 만기간 스프레드거래 기회에 대한 실증분석을 실시하였다. 실증분석 결과 KOSPI 200 지수선물시장에서 선물가격은 이론가치에 비하여 지속적으로 저평가되는 현상을 나타냈으며, 증권거래소 회원사 뿐만이 아니라 비회원사에게도 선물매입/현물매도 차익거래 기회가 빈번하게 지속적으로 발생하였으며, 선물가격과 차익거래 밴드와의 괴리율 수준이 크게 나타났다. 두번째 근월물(원월물) 선물가격이 첫 번째 근월물(근월물) 선물가격에 비하여 지속적으로 저평가되는 현상을 나타냈으며, 거래소 회원사에게 원월물 매입/근윌물 매도 스프레드거래 기회가 존재하였으나 원월물 선물의 낮은 거래량을 고려하면 스프레드거래 기회는 제한적이었다고 할 수 있다. 그리고 분석기간을 네 기간으로 구분하여 조사한 결과 첫번째 기간부터 세번째 기간까지(1996.5-1997.4)는 선물가격의 저평가 현상이 지속적으로 나타나고 차익거래 기회도 빈번하게 발생하였으나 네번째 기간(1997.5-1997.8)에는 선물가격과 현물지수 사이의 가격불균형이 크게 축소되었고 차익거래 기회 빈도 및 괴리율 수준이 크게 감소되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.235-244
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• 2013

In this study, we propose a new trading strategy by using a trading volume index in KOSPI200 futures market. Many studies have been conducted with respect to the relationship between volume and price, but none of them is clearly concluded. This study analyzes the economic usefulness of investment strategy, using volume index. This analysis shows that the trading volume is a preceding index. This paper contains two objectives. The first objective is to make an index using Correlated Volume Index (CVI) and second objective is to find an appropriate timing to buy or sell the Kospi200 future index. The results of this study proved the importance of the proposed model in KOSPI200 futures market, and it will help many investors to make the right investment decision.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.237-243
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• 2012

This paper proposes quantitative investment strategies for KOSPI200 index futures using VKOSPI and control chart. Stochastic control chart is employed to decide when to take a position as well as what position out of long and short should be taken by monitoring whether VKOSPI or difference of VKOSPI touches the control limit lines. The strategies include 4 approaches, which are traditional control chart and 2-Area control chart coupled with VKOSPI and its difference, respectively. Computational experiments using real KOSPI200 futures index for recent 3 years are conducted to show the excellence of the proposed investment strategies under control chart framework.