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by metro
May 10th, 2004, 8:43 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Hull-White: Option on Coupon Bond Calculation
Replies: 8
Views: 194534

Hull-White: Option on Coupon Bond Calculation

<t>I got the book / linked articles (I had only the different papers on hull-white tree construction before) and followed the example given but instead of using a total analytical approach and an option price formula I would like to use a constructed trinomial interest rate tree of the short rate (t...
by metro
May 4th, 2004, 5:29 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Hull-White: Option on Coupon Bond Calculation
Replies: 8
Views: 194534

Hull-White: Option on Coupon Bond Calculation

I will check and let you know if I figured it out. Concerning the program, I tried the macro on two other machines without any problems, but it`s good to know that problems might occure on other systems.I appreciate the time you spent on my questions – many thanks for your advices!
by metro
May 4th, 2004, 3:53 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Hull-White: Option on Coupon Bond Calculation
Replies: 8
Views: 194534

Hull-White: Option on Coupon Bond Calculation

<t>Thank you for your advice, but I am still lost - sorry for being so blind...I wrote a VBA Code which follows exactly the procedure outlined in Hull-White until the discounting of the option price back through the tree on p. 8, table 7. To calculate the Bond Price P(t,T) needed to calculate the Op...
by metro
May 3rd, 2004, 5:20 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Hull-White: Option on Coupon Bond Calculation
Replies: 8
Views: 194534

Hull-White: Option on Coupon Bond Calculation

<t>Hi,I am fighting with the VBA programming of the Hull-White Model and the calculation of an option on a coupon bond. I am able to calculate an option on a zero-bond (the interest rates have already been calculated) but I am unsure how to integrate the coupon payments. The coupon will always be pa...
by metro
April 22nd, 2004, 2:50 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Hull-White Instantaneous Forward Rate Calculation
Replies: 5
Views: 189898

Hull-White Instantaneous Forward Rate Calculation

<t>Hi Aaron, the program should calculate coupon bond options through Hull-White (trinomial) interest rate trees. I think I found a way around the differential in A C++ Encoded Hull-White Interest Rate Tree-Builder on page 7. At least I get the same results as stated in the original Hull-White paper...
by metro
April 21st, 2004, 10:03 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Hull-White Instantaneous Forward Rate Calculation
Replies: 5
Views: 189898

Hull-White Instantaneous Forward Rate Calculation

Thank you for your help. Unfortunately I did not fully understand your suggestion. You are right that t=0 shortens the equations a lot but t won’t be 0 in the program I am trying to write based on the paper. Pls. could you explain even more detailed?
by metro
April 21st, 2004, 1:05 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Hull-White Instantaneous Forward Rate Calculation
Replies: 5
Views: 189898

Hull-White Instantaneous Forward Rate Calculation

<t>Unfortunately I am not a finance expert and on my own...Currently I am struggling with the calculation of the instantaneous forward rate r in Hull-White: “Using Interest Rate Derivatives (p. 3).The equation should yield F(0,3)=0,078304 with P(0,3)= 0,827673348 and t=3 but how do you calculate thi...
by metro
April 20th, 2004, 11:42 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Discounting Coupon Bonds in Trinominal Tree (Hull-White)
Replies: 2
Views: 189423

Discounting Coupon Bonds in Trinominal Tree (Hull-White)

<t>Thanks again. It helped a lot and reinforced partially what I was thinking / reading. Unfortunately I am not a finance expert and completely on my own which makes things slightly more complicated for me… Another simple thing I am stuck with and I almost don’t dare to ask, is the calculation of th...
by metro
April 19th, 2004, 1:11 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Discounting Coupon Bonds in Trinominal Tree (Hull-White)
Replies: 2
Views: 189423

Discounting Coupon Bonds in Trinominal Tree (Hull-White)

<t>Hello, I have some questions concerning the discounting procedure in Hull-White (H.W.) Trinomial-Trees. Based on the calculated short rates of a H.W. tree, I would like to discount Zero - and Coupon Bonds.1. I am unsure how to deal with the mean reversion effect when discounting back through the ...
by metro
April 19th, 2004, 12:28 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Hull-White Term Structure Implementation
Replies: 2
Views: 189941

Hull-White Term Structure Implementation

Excellent advice, thank you! I was not aware of the fact that the Q-Values have to some up to the corresponding spot rate - maybe it is quite obvious , but it wasn't to me :-) . It makes debugging much easier to have such kind of a checksum.
by metro
April 2nd, 2004, 1:59 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Hull-White Term Structure Implementation
Replies: 2
Views: 189941

Hull-White Term Structure Implementation

<t>Hello,Unfortunately I am not a finance neither an excel expert but I got the assignment to implement the Hull-White One Factor Term Structure Model in Excel in order to do some calculations. According to the examples I found in the Literature: 1. Hull, J.; White, A. (1996): „Using Hull-White Inte...