June 3rd, 2011, 1:25 am
I am looking for a way to price this:The security is a 2-year note that pays annual fixed rate coupons and par at maturity.On the same date every month, the fixing of a currency pair (e.g., USD/CHF) is observed, say X1. This is used to set the "band", e.g. X1 +/- 0.2000 for the next fixing X2, which then becomes the centre of the band for X3, and so on.The band width is constant throughout the 12 months of each year, but the band width for Year 2 is slightly wider (e.g., +/- 0.2000 for Year 1 and +/- 0.2400 for Year 2)For each of the year, if any of the fixings X1, X2, ..., X12 breaches its band ( e.g., X5 > X4+0.2000 ), the coupon for that year becomes zero (the note pays nothing for that year)It looks a little like a double no-touch option, but hitting one of the barriers in any one of the twelve months is enough to wipe out the coupon for the entire year. The setting of exact "barrier levels" based on the most recent fixing also complicates matters.Any idea on how to proceed will be appreciated.