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by vipbat
November 14th, 2007, 4:52 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Bloomberg BLPB function in VBA
Replies: 23
Views: 153620

Bloomberg BLPB function in VBA

<t>Hi Andrew,This is my frist day in this forum. I am familiar with basic V programming for Excel macros but I am trying run Bloomberg API fro the first time using VB. I am doing this on a machine which has Bloomberg...This is the code snippet I took from the examples in Bloomberg API documentation....
by vipbat
May 24th, 2007, 1:28 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: No-Knockout on CDSwaptions and Options on CDS Indices
Replies: 14
Views: 164036

No-Knockout on CDSwaptions and Options on CDS Indices

HTFB,with reference to your post about pricing index options, are you suggesting that we price a single-name option without knock-out exactly the same way we do an index option; since u suggest that we just use the index spread for all the index constituents...
by vipbat
May 24th, 2007, 1:21 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: No-Knockout on CDSwaptions and Options on CDS Indices
Replies: 14
Views: 164036

No-Knockout on CDSwaptions and Options on CDS Indices

Btw, I am talking about a single name CDS option without knock-out
by vipbat
May 24th, 2007, 1:19 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: No-Knockout on CDSwaptions and Options on CDS Indices
Replies: 14
Views: 164036

No-Knockout on CDSwaptions and Options on CDS Indices

<t>HTFB, u suggested for receivers: No-knockout = knockout for payers: No-knockout = knockout + cost of protection from t=0 to expiry I have made a model that does exactly the same. However, won't the put-call parity cease to hold if we add a front-end protection to payer and leave the receiver as i...
by vipbat
May 23rd, 2007, 1:57 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Index CDS Option / CDX (TRACX) Option
Replies: 7
Views: 160402

Index CDS Option / CDX (TRACX) Option

<t>Hi,I am trying to price single-name CDS options with no-knock-out. According to the Lehman paper in this thread, it says that we add a front-end protetcin value to the payer option price found using a Black's model to add the possibility of default before option maturity. However, the no-knockout...
by vipbat
May 3rd, 2007, 4:04 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Merrill Lynch Credit Derivatives Research papers
Replies: 16
Views: 124925

Merrill Lynch Credit Derivatives Research papers

Hi,Does someone have this ML Handbook on Credit Derivatives - Vol1? Pls post