<t>I have nicely calibrated the SABR params for the USD 3m Libor swaptions which matches the market very well (after incorporating the correction due to Obloj - Fine Tuning the Smile paper). I am extending the pricing model to cover mid curve swaptions. Here I express a mid curve rate such as 3m1y1y...

<t>SABR/LMM (there are several attempts by different authors, I am aware of one by Hagan/Lesniewski) is perhaps the "correct" way to go about it.... or am missign something. In this type of SABR/LMM there seems to be a ton of parameters to fit..so it doesn't come across as parsimonious. It is the pr...

<t>I am looking to build a swaption vol cube using SABR for fitting skew along different swaption expiries. For example, I fit SABR parameters for expiry = 1yr and expiry = 2yr. Now if my swaption expiry is 1.5 yr, how do I interpolate the SABR formulae? Lesniewski Vol Cube paper talks about using a...

<t>I am trying to see how the dv01 changes under different interpolation methods. I find that on a 10y30y usd libor swap with OIS discounting, the dv01 with linear interpolation of zero rates gives adv01 that is nearly 10% lower than that of monotone convex. I was surprised at such a large differenc...

For COP, the standard way to build discount curve is to use FX forwards (NDFs) till 2 years and then cross ccy basis swaps (6m libor vs COP). The "libor" curve would be based off of COP IBR swaps (IBR vs fixed COP). This is the standard procedure in the interbank markets.

<t>I am trying to use monotone convex interpolation described in the Hagan-West paper. Say to make things easier, we are in a single curve framework and use 3m-libor swaps upto 20 years. For Hagan-West we need all the 3m forwards used in the longest swap as inputs, giving us 20 * 4 = 80 3m forwards ...

<t>Is there a fast approximate Jacobian calculation of swaps with respect to libor and discount curves? I am trying to bootstrap 3M libor and OIS discount using OIS swaps, libor-ois basis swaps and 3m libor swaps. The solver uses a levenberg-marquardt algorithm and calculates an approximate numerica...

Thanks Cuch & Hansi. Will check out QL.

<t> I am trying to produce realistic schedule generation using holiday calendars. Are there good sources of obtaining holiday calendars ? Anything to watch out for while implementing in C# or Python ? I will be implementing the following natural method - getNthBday which given a date and a holiday c...

<t>Thanks Cuch, Polter and katastrofa. I have used the links and suggestions below to arrive at a rough plan. But before I proceed further, I need to sort out certain "utility" items such as schedule generation with respect to multiple holiday calendar. I will return to this thread very soon with fu...

<t>I have been pondering about this for a few days. Is there a good set of principles to separate market objects such as yield curves, vol surfaces etc from the pricing code. For example, a swap can be constructed knowing the fixed and float leg schedules. When I need to get the pv, I want to say so...

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