A hedging band is a range around the target delta within which the hedge is left alone; when the delta leaves it, the hedge trades back to the band’s nearest edge, not to its centre, so that trades are only as large as the risk requires.
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Example 26.4 (Bands against the clock)
A short one-month at-the-money straddle on a share at 100 (20% volatility) is hedged over its life, checking 13 times a day, with a cost of 5 basis points of the traded notional. Hedging at every check costs 0.525 on average and leaves a P&L standard deviation of 0.321. Once a day costs 0.142 with a standard deviation of 0.855. A band with costs 0.140, the same as daily hedging, with a standard deviation of 0.505, 41% less. With it costs 0.313 with 0.313, and every-third-check hedging costs about the same (0.302) with 0.434 (Figure 26.2).