Besides the stress tests, OMIClear also conducts back tests on a daily basis in MiClear system. The aim of backtesting is to verify and validate if a model is achieving its purpose. As such, the goal of OMIClear’s backtesting program is to check that its margin model is calculating margins that historically would have been sufficient to cover with a 99% confidence interval, the worst price development for closing out, in the time horizon underlying the initial margin calculation, all positions of a defaulting member.
Specifically, for each day, and for each clearing account, OMIClear compares the initial margin available on that day with the gains/losses that would arise if the underlying portfolio would be closed out at the most unfavourable settlement price verified for the close out period.
In case the computed losses are greater than the initial margin required a hit is registered. If the number of hits in the relevant period is higher than the statistically expected OMIClear shall trigger a revision of its initial margin parameters.