November 12th, 2007, 3:17 pm
Yes, but I think that Incorporating the 3M vs 6M basis is like having two curves, one for 3M and the other for 6M.Indeed, to calibrate the basis before t = 1 Y (where you do not have market data) you just define it to be compatible with the 2 curves obatained from the available sets of market data for 3M and 6M separately.Even if I restrict the problem to just one floating rate, that is I magine to have only 6M vs. fixed rate, I'm facing a problem.- When the start date is in the next week I would like to have a first fixing that is nearly equal to the EURIBOR6M fixing of today.- When the start date is later I would like to have the first fixing that comes from a curve built with standard instrumentsTo satisfy these requirements I build the curve with the fixing of today, 6M fras, and than IRS.The problem is that when I have some stub period (expecially at the beginning), that needs interpolation between some other rate (like EURIBOR3,4,5 M) I obtain from my 6M curve very bad estimates for them.I think the only way to solve completely this problem is a "very intelligent" pricing machine that have 3M, 4M, 5M, 6M curves and use them all together to price a 6M vs. fixed rate irs with irregular periods. But this pricing machine is not compatible with many commercial software that expects as input only a single zero rate curve. Moreover, using more than one curve seems like violating no arbitrage constrains.Any suggestion?