Questions tagged [caplet]
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Which Model Should I Use for Pricing USD Interest Rate Caps (7, 10, 30 year maturities) on 1Month Rates?
I am trying to price USD interest rate caps on 1M rates (e.g., LIBOR, SOFR, etc.).
The caps are designed to limit the exposure on non-callable USD Pay Float / Receive fixed positions in interest rate ...
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Interest Rates Options: can't reproduce market premiums given volatilities and discount curve
I have a range of premiums and normal (Bachelier) volatilites quotes across several strikes and maturities for caps and floors and trying to figure out why I cannot reprice them given the discount ...
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Caplet delta hedging
I have had a really hard time trying to simulate the delta hedging of a caplet. When I compare the process to delta hedging a call on a stock (which I already did without much trouble), I found some ...
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QuantLib Python - stripped caplet volatilities as input
My market data source provides me with already stripped caplet volatilities as a matrix with strikes in one dimension and caplet maturities in the other dimension.
Is there any way to put these caplet ...
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Should one calibrate SABR model on caps or caplets?
I want to build a volatility surface for caps on a 3M index implied from SABR model. I have a set of cap normal volatilities for a range of strikes (4%, 6%, 8%, 10% and ATM) and maturities (1, 2, 3, 4 ...
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Does my caplet stripped volatility surface make any sense?
My goal is to build a volatility surface for caps on a 3M index implied from SABR model. I have a set of cap normal volatilities for a range of strikes (4%, 6%, 8%, 10% and ATM) and maturities (1, 2, ...
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Where can I find caplet implied volatility data?
I am looking for caplet implied volatility data for Libor-EUR. Is there any online data base etc. available to get such data? Does ...
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Show that the price of a LIBOR rate paid in advance is a linear combination of caplets
Let $L(t, T_1, T_2)$ be the forward LIBOR rate at time $t$ for the period $T_1$ to $T_2$.
If a security pays some multiple of $L(T_1, T_1, T_2)$ at time $T_1$, how can we show that the price of this ...
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IR Cap Forward Premium
A well known broker quotes cap/floors as spot premium for ATM straddles but forward premium for the skew, given that the difference between spot premium and forward premium is that the option is not ...
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What is the correct volatility to use for inverting Black76?
I'm using VCUB on Bloomberg for ATM cap volatilities and have noticed there are a few "flavors" of volatilities. I would like simply use ATM flat vols to bootstrap forward volatilities from ...
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Where can (current) interest rate cap prices be found?
I'm somewhat new to interest rate models and am interested in obtaining ATM cap prices and volatilities for calibration purposes (Black-Derman-Toy, Hull-White, etc.). Ideally, this would enable me to ...
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Forward starting zero-coupon bonds
We trivially have that:
$$\frac{Z(t_0,t_1)}{Z(t_0,t_2)}=1+\tau L(t_0,t_1,t_2)$$
Where $L(t_0,t_1,t_2)$ is the forward Libor between $t_1$ and $t_2$, as of $t_0$.
Simply inverting this relationship ...
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Quantlib error initializing CapFloor C++ Class
I'd like to use QuantLib as a C++ library to price interest rate derivatives, in particular Cap&Floors. To semplify things a little, let's say I have a vector of EURLibor1Y rates for different ...
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Caplet "in arrears" pricing formula
The forward Libor rate $L(t,t_1,t_2)$, with $0 \leq t \leq t_1$, must be a martingale under the T-forward measure associated with the zero coupon bond $P(t,t_2)$ that matures at time $t_2$.
Pricing a ...
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Where to find Caps/Floor historical data?
I'm trying to calibrate the Lognormal Forward Libor Model to market data, in order to calculate market implied volatilities. However, I'm having some troubles finding any Cap/Floor historic price. Not ...
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What is the correct implied volatility to use when valuing an FRA option?
To my understanding the value of an FRA option is identical to that of a caplet of equal maturity, strike and tenor. A volatility surface of cap implied volatilities is generally available, and from ...
