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by paladin
August 30th, 2007, 11:57 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Implied Volatility
Replies: 0
Views: 66446

Implied Volatility

<t>Hi,I am using vanna-volga method to generate volatility smile given 25 delta STR, 25 delta RR and ATMF. But some markets like GBP also quotes 10 delta points which usually do not lie on the generated smile. How do we interpolate between 10 delta and 25 delta and beyond 10 delta points while being...
by paladin
November 18th, 2006, 9:02 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: FXOV mkt DATA
Replies: 1
Views: 87795

FXOV mkt DATA

Can somebody provide me with EUR/USD FX Option Vol data ...I desperately need this..it need not be the current data.Thanks in advancepaladin
by paladin
November 17th, 2006, 10:52 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: FXOV mkt DATA
Replies: 1
Views: 87776

FXOV mkt DATA

Can somebody provide me with EUR/USD FX Option Vol data ...I desperately need this..it need not be the current data.Thanks in advancepaladin
by paladin
November 1st, 2006, 12:43 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: I search a valuation of financial products's book
Replies: 7
Views: 90701

I search a valuation of financial products's book

I think that for IR side u can refer Brigo Mercurio or MYron Swannell .
by paladin
November 1st, 2006, 10:34 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: fra options
Replies: 3
Views: 89815

fra options

Arent Fra option like a caplet
by paladin
October 16th, 2006, 10:33 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: caplet vols
Replies: 11
Views: 92293

caplet vols

Dear Aaron,Shouldn't the interpolation be applied on variance rather than vols.
by paladin
October 16th, 2006, 10:29 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Pricing Cross Currency Swap
Replies: 5
Views: 91749

Pricing Cross Currency Swap

http://www.hfb.de/Dateien/CPQF_Arbeits2.pdfchk this ..would be pretty useful..
by paladin
September 25th, 2006, 1:37 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Quanto Swaps
Replies: 2
Views: 92740

Quanto Swaps

Can Somebody suggest some good reading material on quanto swaps.
by paladin
August 24th, 2006, 10:22 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Notional Value
Replies: 10
Views: 185320

Notional Value

<t>See i think its like this say i want to buy 1m calls at strike 1.14 EUR/USDimplicitly this would mean as if I would be buying 1m EUR at 1m * 1.14 USD and the premium that i would pay would pay would be in USD. (this is for FX option)Say now i want to buy a 1m outright forward , in this case u hav...
by paladin
August 24th, 2006, 9:49 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Barrier Option
Replies: 1
Views: 96118

Barrier Option

Can somebody share the below mentioned paper:Ikeda, M., and N. Kuintomo (1992): \Pricing Options with Curved Bound-aries," Mathematical Finance, 2, 275{298.Thanks in advance
by paladin
July 24th, 2006, 2:27 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Pricing Range Accrual
Replies: 6
Views: 101168

Pricing Range Accrual

<t>as far as convexity is concerned..yes you have to take care of that using DOUST's formula (as given in PAT's paper) and for the timing adjustment you can do by CF* df(benchmark )/df(CF date of the coupon) ...but i think other forum mates can throw more light on it..... ...i think your a/b is wron...
by paladin
July 24th, 2006, 2:09 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Basis swap
Replies: 7
Views: 101585

Basis swap

see the spread as such can be added on any side....its just that if its coming MYR positive margin than the same when translated to USD margin would be negative..An to ur second question for both the case the treatment of spread is same....i think johnself might like to add something to it..
by paladin
July 24th, 2006, 1:55 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: How To Decide The Mean Reversion Parameter in HW
Replies: 8
Views: 98848

How To Decide The Mean Reversion Parameter in HW

<t>I think that one can peacefully calibrate the HW model to the cap surface but then simultaneously calibrating to both caps & swaptions might not be a good idea.. As a matter of fact the HW calibration can be done on the deal basis separately giving the parameters & less error ..you can re...
by paladin
July 24th, 2006, 1:55 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: How To Decide The Mean Reversion Parameter in HW
Replies: 8
Views: 98848

How To Decide The Mean Reversion Parameter in HW

<t>I think that one can peacefully calibrate the HW model to the cap surface but then simultaneously calibrating to both caps & swaptions might not be a good idea.. As a matter of fact the HW calibration can be done on the deal basis separately giving the parameters & less error ..you can re...
by paladin
July 24th, 2006, 1:22 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: excel query
Replies: 1
Views: 97389

excel query

I want to add colour to the cell based on the value for eg. red for all the cells that contain 1 in the worksheet.can somebody help on this..thanks in advance