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Cross Currency Swap Pricing in nowadays environment
Multicurve setting has now become the new paradigm for vanilla swap valuation. For the record I give here (without getting into too much details) the methodoloy for pricing Euribor3M swaps in this ...
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Why would an investor trade a variance swap over a volatility swap?
Why would an investor trade a variance swap over a volatility swap? Is it simply related to the leverage involved in a Var (i.e. sigma-squared) or is there something else to it?
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What is the reason for the convexity adjustment when pricing a constant maturity swap (CMS)?
I'm trying to wrap my head around pricing a Constant Maturity Swap (CMS). Let's imagine the following deal: 6m LIBOR in one direction, 10y swap rate in the other. The discount curve is derived from ...
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Varswap Basis - What is it in practice?
What is the varswap basis? I am not completely sure what this number represents. Is it the basis between the estimated future realized volatility and the vol surface implied volatilty at a specified ...
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How to build the short end of a zero coupon curve for non-core Eurozone countries?
I am in the process of building zero coupon curves for some countries in the Eurozone.
I have the following data sets:
Euribor and EONIA
Swap rates
Bond price and yields
The bond prices (and thus ...
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Where do swap rates and/or long-term forward rates come from?
I apologize if this is supposed to be obvious, but ... . Libor spot rates are quoted up to a year, beyond that one can use Eurodollar futures to continue to build the curve. Let's say up to 3 years. ...
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how to derive yield curve from interest rate swap?
According to some textbooks, to derive the yield curve, quote
overnight to 1 week: rates from interbank money market deposit,
1 month to 1 year: LIBOR;
1 year to 7 years: Interest Rate Swap;
7 ...
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Is there any gamma in basis (i.e., floating for floating) interest rates swaps?
It is well known that vanilla fixed for floating swaps usually have a bit of gamma, but does a floating for floating (basis) swap have any? For the sake of simplicity, let's assume that both legs of ...
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Is it true that pricing an IR swap doesn't require any stochastic model but calculation of the PFE of an IR swap would?
Pricing an IR swap doesn't require any stochastic model but calculation of the PFE for an IR swap would require the Hull White Model or any other stochastic short rate or forward rate model.
Is ...
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Convexity adjustment for a forward swap rate
I recently heard that for a forward swap rate (for example, the fixed rate of a swap that will start in one year and end in five years), I need to do a convexity adjustment in order to get the right ...
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Equivalency of FX forwards and FX basis swaps for risk-management purposes
Can one deem an FX float-to-float swap and a FX forward equivalent on dates immediately after repricing? The reason I am asking, I am hedging something that can be modeled via an FX forward, I was ...
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Valuing Total Return Swaps
In my quest for simulated data, I am trying to generate prices for Total Return Swaps by calculating the NPVs of the fixed and floating leg. My problem: Given the fixed leg, how do I set the spread on ...
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Basket equity swap
What are the advantages of buying basket equity swaps derivative compared to single equity swap? Will correlation play a role in basket equity swap?
Thanks in advance
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Fair swap rate of an amortizing swap
Recently I came across the problem of amortizing swaps. This is an agreement, where fixed payments and floating payments (e.g. 3-months LIBOR + spread) are exchanged based on a notional that is ...
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How to value non-libor swaps (not basis swaps)?
What discount curve should be used for a swap with a fixed leg and variable leg, where the variable leg is based on rate other than Libor (in my case 1-year deposit rate). Hull (5th edition, page 595) ...
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Why might a manager consider using an interest-rate in which the notional principal amount declines over time?
Say swap would be used to convert the payments of its portfolio of fixed-rate residential mortgage loans into a floating payment. Why might a manager consider using an interest-rate in which the ...
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What is the instantaneous P&L of a Variance Swap?
What is the instantaneous P&L of a variance swap.
Is it $(\sigma^{2}_{t}-\sigma^{2}_{implied})dt$?
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How to hedge the fixed leg of a swap contract?
I happened to get this question for Fixed Income Swap contract. (let's assume it's it's not cross currency).
If the fixed leg is paying 10% interest rate in this contract, but in the market the ...
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What is a standard credit default swap contract and where can I find spread data? What alternatives exist to judge creditworthiness?
I'm doing some work for a company and one of my tasks is to research credit default swaps on banks and to write a page about them explaining what they are and how they're used to evaluate the banks' ...
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How to calculate a the PFE for a Swaption?
How do you calculate the Potential Future Exposure (PFE) for a swaption?
Do you incorporate the dynamics of implied volatility when you are running your simulations?
Is there a standard way to ...
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How to calculate cf and interest accruals of the swap?
How to calculate to calculate daily interest accruals and cashflows for the full term of the swap, given notional, effective date, maturity date: (total one year), accrual: ACT/360
payment: ...
