The Role of Trading Desk Risk Limits¶
Correia, R. (2025). The Role of Trading Desk Risk Limits. Finance and Economics Discussion Series.
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- And in bank market-risk operations, repeated small breaches of a value-at-risk limit that did not produce a loss get recoded as proof the limit is conservative; instrumenting the breach magnitude and frequency as the margin signal — and pre-committing to a limit re-qualification trigger — converts a reassuring loss-free record back into the adverse signal it actually is.
This sourceDocuments how VaR and other trading-desk limit breaches function as risk-governance signals and how repeated small breaches absent loss are handled, supporting instrumenting breach magnitude/frequency rather than reading a loss-free record as proof the limit is conservative.
- And in bank market-risk operations, repeated small breaches of a value-at-risk limit that did not produce a loss get recoded as proof the limit is conservative; instrumenting the breach magnitude and frequency as the margin signal — and pre-committing to a limit re-qualification trigger — converts a reassuring loss-free record back into the adverse signal it actually is.
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