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by ytfloyd
September 1st, 2011, 4:11 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: spreading risk-reversals
Replies: 0
Views: 17708

spreading risk-reversals

<t>Hi all - I'm looking at the spread of EURUSD over GBPUSD normalized one-month 25d risk-reversals and see that it sits around 3 standard deviations below its ten year mean. This suggests GBPUSD skew is rich relative to its levels of ATMF vol, while EURUSD skew is cheap relative to its ATMF vol. Do...
by ytfloyd
November 11th, 2010, 3:28 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: FX league tables?
Replies: 1
Views: 23304

FX league tables?

<t>Hi - can anybody suggest a good source of information on FX players, something like FX league tables? For example, largest players in FX market on basis of forex exchanged/total amount of transactions handled, largest players by currency pairs, largest sovereign wealth funds in the FX market, lar...
by ytfloyd
June 13th, 2009, 12:32 am
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: FX options reval data
Replies: 0
Views: 38210

FX options reval data

Does anybody have experience with GFI's FX option reval data? Is it a reliable source of vols for running a quant trading program? Thks for any input.
by ytfloyd
June 30th, 2008, 1:33 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Modelling Freight Options
Replies: 12
Views: 181663

Modelling Freight Options

<t>Hi all,I'm an FX guy starting to working on technical trading strategies in the dry freight market. I'm trying to build a continuous futures contract to backtest some momentum models that have shown promise in these wide swinging markets but the steep curve inversions distort the series since rol...
by ytfloyd
September 7th, 2007, 8:23 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: FX corr swap notionals
Replies: 3
Views: 66354

FX corr swap notionals

Gee thanks for the shameless plug of your website that does not even pretend to answer my qeustion. Way to honor the spirit of this forum.
by ytfloyd
September 6th, 2007, 6:07 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: FX corr swap notionals
Replies: 3
Views: 66354

FX corr swap notionals

Anybody who sees FX correlation swaps trade, can you tell me what typical notional amounts are on these for say eurusd, usdjpy corr swap? many thanks.
by ytfloyd
August 15th, 2006, 8:02 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: vol swap mark-to-market
Replies: 1
Views: 95960

vol swap mark-to-market

Or...How far off will the mark-to-market value of a 1M vol swap (G7 FX) be if you simply use a time-weighted average of realized volatility since inception and current implied volatility? Is the error closer to .01% or 10%? Thanks in advance.
by ytfloyd
August 13th, 2006, 7:24 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: vol swap mark-to-market
Replies: 1
Views: 95960

vol swap mark-to-market

by ytfloyd
August 4th, 2006, 5:06 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: DDK tree building
Replies: 0
Views: 96239

DDK tree building

Can a DDK implied trinomial tree be built using deltas, or is it necessary to first move from the deltas to the strikes? If so, could somebody provide a reference for calculating strikes from deltas? thanks!
by ytfloyd
August 4th, 2006, 5:05 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: DKK tree building
Replies: 0
Views: 96260

DKK tree building

Can a DKK implied trinomial tree be built using deltas, or is it necessary to first move from the deltas to the strikes? If so, could somebody provide a reference for calculating strikes from deltas? thanks!
by ytfloyd
June 19th, 2006, 4:45 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: pairs trading
Replies: 37
Views: 119066

pairs trading

thanks vesel. would doing them vega neutral be sufficient to focus the exposure on the relative moves?
by ytfloyd
June 18th, 2006, 8:30 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: pairs trading
Replies: 37
Views: 119066

pairs trading

<t>If an investor wants exposure to the gold/eurusd implied vol spread (betting it will converge) would the appropriate strategy consist of long eurusd straddles and short gold straddles done in vega neutral amounts?and if you do it via vol/var swaps how would you determine the proper notional amoun...
by ytfloyd
June 18th, 2006, 4:39 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: options on variance swaps
Replies: 40
Views: 204704

options on variance swaps

do you see vol caps/floors trading?
by ytfloyd
January 31st, 2006, 8:34 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Freight derivatives
Replies: 1
Views: 120710

Freight derivatives

Hello all,Curious if anybody has experience with or can point me to a source on modelling forward curves where the forwards settle against a monthly average of spot. Thanks in advance,yt
by ytfloyd
August 31st, 2005, 10:56 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Freight derivatives
Replies: 5
Views: 137891

Freight derivatives

Sure, I'll just forward all my results to you. Is that your correct address?
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