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by keny
June 7th, 2010, 9:28 am
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: Real Time Data Middleware
Replies: 3
Views: 29862

Real Time Data Middleware

Look at AMQPPopular implementations are Rabbit MQ and /Apache Qpid
by keny
April 15th, 2010, 3:30 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Basis swaps - conversion factor
Replies: 6
Views: 36482

Basis swaps - conversion factor

<t>Model the cashflow in currency A on each payment date for currency A, discount to PV using zero-curve for that currency, convert PV to currency B at spot rate, and solve for the cashflow on corresponding payment dates in currency B that has the same PV using discount factors for currency B to cal...
by keny
April 15th, 2010, 1:52 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: My incompetent professor part 2
Replies: 40
Views: 45247

My incompetent professor part 2

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: riskguruLet me take another crack at the "yes it does" "no it does not" debate here. Covered interest rate parity is a no arbitrage condition. Any no arbitrage condition is conditional on well functioning markets that allow the arbitrage to be costlessly executed by eno...
by keny
April 13th, 2010, 10:20 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: bloomberg interpolation
Replies: 1
Views: 31326

bloomberg interpolation

<t>Take the discount factors to the root days in the period, interpolate the resulting daily equivalent rates, then raise to the power of days in the period to the interploations target date. This asumes d/fs are in format 1.~, not their reciprocal.DFs are a compound function, so you have to elimina...
by keny
April 13th, 2010, 9:47 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: My incompetent professor part 2
Replies: 40
Views: 45247

My incompetent professor part 2

Because you say so?If I can dig out the necessary data for usd/jpy basis swaps, and can find the time, I will sling together a pricing model to prove that they do.
by keny
April 7th, 2010, 6:52 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Derman: Understanding Guaranteed Exchange-Rate Contracts
Replies: 2
Views: 31878

Derman: Understanding Guaranteed Exchange-Rate Contracts

Try asking this chap.... Piotr via LinkedIn and tell him Ken Yeadon pointed you his way :-) He is a nice chap and he doesnt bite. Nothing like going to the top.....
by keny
April 7th, 2010, 6:39 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Necessary Fixed Income Topics
Replies: 6
Views: 30058

Necessary Fixed Income Topics

<t>Develop your skills in navigating the yield curve, coupon stripping, and converting between yield conventions until they become a motor skill. Leatn how to do it longhand, and memorise the various rules of thumb until you can spot an error without needing to do the math. Everything else becomes m...
by keny
April 7th, 2010, 4:30 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: My incompetent professor part 2
Replies: 40
Views: 45247

My incompetent professor part 2

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: AlanQuoteOriginally posted by: kenyUSDCNY is not a freely convertible currency so the arbitrage relationships are impeded. USDJPY IS close to fully arbitraged, but there is structural basis relationship between the deposit market and the financing cost via forward fx wh...
by keny
April 7th, 2010, 3:32 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: New Site for Historical Data
Replies: 4
Views: 29810

New Site for Historical Data

Eric- Just sent you a message via e-mail from your site. Please drop me a line!CheersKen
by keny
March 22nd, 2010, 5:15 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: What software is good for backtesting trading strategies?
Replies: 26
Views: 70111

What software is good for backtesting trading strategies?

<t>Algodeal looks very interesting. If you are actually looking at trading, instead of for research purposes, these guys TXC have a a fully hosted environment for setting up and back-testing Algo strategies in certain asset classes. Market connectivity, data collection, strategy definition, backtest...
by keny
March 22nd, 2010, 5:07 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Excel Blomberg No Workstation
Replies: 3
Views: 31463

Excel Blomberg No Workstation

<t>They go to a great deal of effort to prevent you doing precisely that, and I believe its a violation of their terms of service. To get the Excel API, you need a terminal subscription. We are working on web-based access to data from leading data vendors (of which Bloomberg is unfortunately not one...
by keny
March 19th, 2010, 1:12 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: How to calculate the MTM of FX Forwards?
Replies: 1
Views: 37298

How to calculate the MTM of FX Forwards?

<t>Take a market deposit rate in the more liquid currency, (it doesnt need to be perfect, although the more accurate the more precise your result will be- any small error will be compensated in the implied interest rate for the counter-currency) and solve from the current spot and forward points the...
by keny
March 19th, 2010, 12:01 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: My incompetent professor part 2
Replies: 40
Views: 45247

My incompetent professor part 2

<t>USDCNY is not a freely convertible currency so the arbitrage relationships are impeded. USDJPY IS close to fully arbitraged, but there is structural basis relationship between the deposit market and the financing cost via forward fx which reflects the different credit implications of each and the...
by keny
March 12th, 2010, 1:20 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: High Freq Strategies
Replies: 8
Views: 34982

High Freq Strategies

<r>Something to be aware of is that conventional statistics dont work well when applied at very high frequency, as the impact of latency and market technical micro-structure increases relative to the impact of the underlying market price action. Since latency isn't normally distributed, (its bounded...
by keny
March 12th, 2010, 1:04 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Data Vendor
Replies: 12
Views: 35913

Data Vendor

<t>Such a requirement is very hard to get unless you are sat within a major institution with an existing data infrastructure and a whole department dedicated to data integrity. Reuters and Bloomberg represent the gold-standard in terms of data quality across a broad scope. There are boutique vendors...