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by yl470
August 24th, 2012, 8:25 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: THB CCS vs ND-IRS implied rate?
Replies: 4
Views: 81269

THB CCS vs ND-IRS implied rate?

<t>I think NDCCS will give you the implied FX rate as you know the non-delivery currency's cashflow is known, and you already have the USD libor index projection and risk free discount curve. Thus you can solve the implied FX rate. For NDIRS, because it is a different market than onshore IRS, thus y...
by yl470
April 4th, 2011, 3:56 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Offshore NDIRS pricing
Replies: 0
Views: 28709

Offshore NDIRS pricing

<t>When an onshore single currency fixed-float swap(IRS) is traded offshore(NDIRS), for example, SGD, CNY, KRW, there are several difference ways to do the valuation1. Using the onshore curve to project the floating index, thus calculate the net cash flow, convert them to USD using the NDF rates, th...
by yl470
January 17th, 2006, 3:43 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: USD swap curve vs US gov strip curve(I39)
Replies: 9
Views: 130238

USD swap curve vs US gov strip curve(I39)

<t>I remember reading from some book (probably fixed income securities), the credit risk between the Libor (A-AA) and Gov is literally zero. Historically there is no such a instance of a bank with credit AAA goes to bankcrupcy. There is one difference, liquidity. Gov Bond is much widely used in the ...
by yl470
November 29th, 2005, 5:39 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: End of month convention for IRS
Replies: 1
Views: 128953

End of month convention for IRS

Does the standard interest rate swap use end of month convention or not?
by yl470
May 13th, 2005, 11:26 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: swap-based zero curve historical data?
Replies: 1
Views: 149268

swap-based zero curve historical data?

HELP HELP to ask ADSK.I think those data probably can get from Excel API, it is based on currency, for example, USD Currency(swdf 23), I believe there is a field for spot curve. Try to use the field searcher to find it.
by yl470
May 13th, 2005, 11:22 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: multiple resets in SWAP
Replies: 4
Views: 149444

multiple resets in SWAP

I see. Thanks a lot for the help. Are these three ways specified in the ISDA swap standards?
by yl470
May 12th, 2005, 2:01 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: multiple resets in SWAP
Replies: 4
Views: 149444

multiple resets in SWAP

<t>In a vanilla interest rate swap, you can have multiple resets in one payment period. How do you calculate the cashflows? According the text I read from ISDA 2000, about floating payment, you should be using "unweighted" or "weighted" average of all the rates. But one of our guy says you should co...
by yl470
May 12th, 2005, 1:55 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Your opinion on "G63.2794 INTEREST RATE AND CREDIT MODELS" course in NYU
Replies: 2
Views: 149388

Your opinion on "G63.2794 INTEREST RATE AND CREDIT MODELS" course in NYU

It focus on implementation instead of the theory of the model, at least that is true for this semester. But it may change as a different instructor is going to teach it in the fall. You can write to the intructor to get more information.
by yl470
March 25th, 2005, 2:44 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Calibrating discount factor on a one factor interest rate tree
Replies: 0
Views: 154957

Calibrating discount factor on a one factor interest rate tree

<t>I have a very specific question. For a one factor Hull-White short-term interest rate trinomial tree, we can replacer(j, k) = r(0, k) * exp (j * q)k: stepq: vol * sqrt ( 3 * delta(T) )r(0, k): forward rate from k to k+1with another oner(j, k) = r(0, k) * [ ( Exp( w * j * q) - 1 ) /w + 1];so when ...
by yl470
March 14th, 2005, 1:44 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Finding someone in a building
Replies: 12
Views: 158775

Finding someone in a building

For the simple version, it is like a minimum spanning tree which will cover all the nodes(floors). The distance between the nodes is the (time of going to the other floor + searching) * the possibility of not finding her in the new floorSo we are minimizing the expected cost.
by yl470
March 14th, 2005, 1:26 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Bad News -5 = 5, math is flawed
Replies: 9
Views: 158602

Bad News -5 = 5, math is flawed

sqrt(25) = 5, that is true. But you can not change the order of the operation willingly, which meansa^(m/n) != (a^m) ^(1/n)