Quotes on CME Case Shiller home price index futures were generally higher on Tuesday, albeit with wider bid/asked spreads, following the January release of the Case Shiller #’s for November. As highlighted in table below, the big movers were the California contracts (w/ SFR much higher, and SDG lower) and CHI (much lower). (Note, I’m using the Nov ’18 – X18 – contracts for illustration. In general price movements were of a similar direction along the expiration curves, with longer-dated contracts, particularly SFR offerings, moving more than shorter-dated contracts.)
There were 3 trades -an outright CHI trade, and a CUS (10-city index)/CHI Intercity trade (that showed as two legs).
Please feel free to contact me (johnhdolan@homepricefutures.com) if you have any questions on this table, or any other aspect of hedging home price indices.
Thanks, John