Risk Management

Risk managers require tools to monitor risk on an aggregated level and deliver instant information about total risk. Traders need full risk tools to ensure that they make the correct trading decisions. Orc’s sophisticated risk management capabilities enable increased profitable trading through managment of risk over positions and trades. Real-time and on-demand risk management tools enable the monitoring of risk on an aggregated level for achieving instant risk analysis.

Real-Time Risk Tools

  • View positions and risk on an aggregated level using required risk values
  • Monitor profit and loss by exposure on a per trade basis
  • Control pricing input with volatility simulations using underlying prices and other pricing criteria
  • Choose to express aggregated risk per market or on a global basis
  • Use restrictive volatility models for risk calculations, while using flexible market tracking models for generating quotes
  • Express underlying risk in monetary value or number of contracts to trade
  • Manage multi-currency risk using real-time data for FX rates
  • Express risk from single-stock derivatives in index futures or index basket
  • View portfolio risk and positions together with market information and risk values for each contract in one symbol
  • Create real-time links to Excel for updated profit and loss/risk

On-Demand Risk Tools

  • Intensive risk analysis and pre-defined scenario risk analysis capabilities
  • Generate multi-dimensional minimum/maximum analysis of portfolios and risk values
  • View portfolio positions and risk values on a strike and expiry date basis for each symbol
  • View volatility curve together with vega and skew risk per strike for a portfolio
  • Create comprehensive risk reports

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