FRM Study Guide 2026

When a heavily shorted asset's price rises, short sellers rush to buy back (cover) their positions to limit losses, which further drives up the price in a feedback loop.

ES captures the average severity of tail losses beyond the VaR cutoff and satisfies sub-additivity, meaning portfolio ES ≤ sum of individual ESs, unlike VaR.

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Negative-skew carry strategies often earn small steady profits but are exposed to infrequent severe losses.

Basel III requires banks to hold capital equal to at least 3 times the 10-day 99% VaR, subject to supervisory add-ons for backtesting exceptions.

Delta hedging involves taking an offsetting position in the underlying asset equal to the option's delta, which must be rebalanced as the delta changes.