Anjam Ahmad, a derivatives analyst at LG Securities International a securities boutique specializing in Korean cash and derivatives instruments is quite certain of the value of derivatives software. “If you go into derivatives trading in an emerging market with state-of-the-art derivatives software, you’re like a player from football’s Premier League spending a Saturday afternoon in the third division,” he says. “You’re going to blow the competition away.”
He explains that in an emerging derivatives market, whether plain vanilla or exotic options are being traded, there will be many traders who simply aren’t able to price instruments accurately.
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