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by rocs
April 6th, 2011, 3:03 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: OTC quoting and trading conventions for currency options
Replies: 3
Views: 20656

OTC quoting and trading conventions for currency options

Castagna's book (FX Options and Smile risk) is also great for explaining these things
by rocs
April 21st, 2010, 1:40 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: FX Options and Volatility Smile
Replies: 33
Views: 70756

FX Options and Volatility Smile

<t>Ancast,Let me say first that this is a great book. I'm a student and have been trying to understand various aspects of the fx options market for a while now. Your book has really clarified things for me.In regard to your comments above on the Vanna Volga method, I had 2 questions regarding implem...
by rocs
March 24th, 2010, 11:34 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: New York Cut and appropriate fx spot rate
Replies: 0
Views: 32948

New York Cut and appropriate fx spot rate

<t>Hi,I'm new to the fx options market and have a very general question on market practice. I know that most fx options are "New York Cut" in that they expire at 10AM New York time and it is the spot rate at this time that is used to decide whether the option is in the money. I was wondering which s...
by rocs
March 24th, 2010, 11:27 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Historical market prices of FX options
Replies: 3
Views: 35053

Historical market prices of FX options

There's a publicly available fx options data set from the BBA on their website. If you have access to Bloomberg you can also download historical fx options data from there.