In this study, we show how both machine learning and alternative data can be successfully leveraged to improve and develop trading strategies. Starting from a trading strategy that harvests the EUR/USD volatility risk premium by selling one-week straddles every weekday, we present a machine...

It is generally said that out-of-the-money call options are expensive and one can ask the question from which moneyness level this is the case. Expensive actually means that the price one pays for the option is more than the discounted average payoff one receives. If so, the option bears a...