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by chrisc
November 6th, 2003, 10:34 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: THE most difficult options trading questions
Replies: 94
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THE most difficult options trading questions

Yup..if P is convex wrt to Vol then d2P/dVol2 > 0 ie dVega/dVol >0
by chrisc
November 6th, 2003, 8:23 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: THE most difficult options trading questions
Replies: 94
Views: 200685

THE most difficult options trading questions

yeah it was irrelevant, just wondering why the term vega convexity stuck (I always use it too)
by chrisc
November 6th, 2003, 12:51 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: THE most difficult options trading questions
Replies: 94
Views: 200685

THE most difficult options trading questions

why do we always talk about vega convexity when it's price that's a convex function of vol?
by chrisc
October 10th, 2003, 4:50 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: A simple smile model
Replies: 30
Views: 195294

A simple smile model

<t>Stoch vol + local + jump (but jump effect is small). Conditional variance constrained to europeans. The whole calibration process is very cpu intensive. Most first generation market prices can be reached with a good set of heuristics which are inputs to the calibration. The full process is used t...
by chrisc
October 10th, 2003, 3:13 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: A simple smile model
Replies: 30
Views: 195294

A simple smile model

<t>Personally I find Heston not suitable for fx exotics in the presence of large skew (particularly jpy right now). The interbank exotics market is reasonably liquid and tight so you needn't be hedging all your path dependent risk in a market making book with strips of risk-reversals or flies. I use...