Spread risk

This one is not written up yet

The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.

Written up from the same chapter

• Basis riskThe risk left over after hedging, because the exposure and the contract used to hedge it do not move identically — in size, in expiry date, or in what they are written on.
• BetaHow sharply a share moves relative to the market index — beta 1 moves with the index, above 1 amplifies it, below 1 dampens it. The standard measure of systematic risk.
• Call moneyUncollateralised overnight lending and borrowing of funds between scheduled commercial banks and primary dealers — the shortest segment of the Indian money market.
• Cash Management BillsVery short-term discounted Treasury Bills of under 91 days, issued by the Government of India to bridge temporary mismatches in its own cash flow.
• Convertible bondA bond carrying an embedded option that lets the holder exchange it for a specified number of the issuer's equity shares — a plain bond plus an equity conversion right.
• ConvexityThe curvature of the price-yield relationship — the correction duration misses, because duration is a straight line and the true relationship bends.