Questions tagged [currency]
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How to compare or prove economic/statistical similarities between two models with differing independent and dependent variables?
I have two datasets:
The relationship between Bitcoin prices and other cryptocurrencies.
The relationship between EUR prices and other currencies.
What would be the most appropriate way to prove ...
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QuantLib Python currency conversion
A simple code below to do currency conversion copied from QuantLib-Python Documentation. This is failing in the EUR to GBP conversion (in the last line of code). Thank you for looking into this.
The ...
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Get a list in R or Python of all companies that trade in US & Canadian Currencies
I've come across several companies on yahoo finance that trade in USD and CAD. For instance, NVMDF and NM.CN are the same ...
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What is the difference between a non-convertible and a non-deliverable currency?
it seems non convertible (eg CNY) or partially convertible (eg BRL) may be due to capital controls or a currency only used domestically. I was then wondering what is the difference between a non-...
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Second by second stock data from Bloomberg API (or anywhere else that is free) into Pandas Dataframe
I need to compile stock price data for ADR and ORD pairs (and the currency between them) into a Pandas dataframe. My initial plan was use Python's requests library and a free Rapid API account to get ...
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Non convertible currencies and trade
How importers and exporters sell/buys products if their country currency is non convertible or when non residents want to invest in the country? For example in Brazil.
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What determined the weights of a currency in the International Monetary Fund SDR basket(2015)?
I am assuming that the weights of currency in the SDR were establishedby following a transparent process.
Are these weights the result of a vote or is there a mathematical algorithm/formula that ...
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What quantifiable factors contribute to the globalization of a currency?
Things that come to mind: Size of the economy of the issuing country, size of population of the issuing country, military power( quantified as defense budget) and country's share in world trade.
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FX American call option optimal exercise and holding region
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I am considering an American call option which gives a domestic investor the right to buy a unit of foreign currency at a strike of $K$ units of domestic currency. I have an exchange rate $S_t$...
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Rolling to a non-front month future contract?
I hedge my US positions with M6B, a GBP/USD future.
Every time I roll my contracts, I ask myself "why is there so little liquidity beyond the next three months?" Surely there are people that ...
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When you rollover a FX Forward, do enter the FX swap at the spot rate or previous forward rate?
from below link:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/distinction-between-fx-swaps-currency-risk-management-akubue-cfa/
"if the date of settlement of the export proceeds has been extended by three ...
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FX forward hedging with rollover
I was wondering when you enter a swap at the forward expiration under which scenarios you are hedged or not.
For example, a European exporter buys a fwd to hedge a delivery of $1m in 6 months (long 6m ...
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Currency devaluation and banks' solvency
I am quite new to economics and when reading one paper on Russian financial crisis in 1998 came across a sentence:
Though temporary successful in bringing down inflation to single-digit annual figures ...
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modelling FX with crosses: USD conversion on entry and exit, or just exit?
I am backtesting a model that trades currency crosses (i.e. EurGbp) at a fixed $1 mln per trade and was curious if I need to a) account for my currency exposure to GBP on both ends of the trade or b) ...
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Who influences Forex prices and by how much?
May question is probably stupid, however I cannot find some reasonable explanation who (and to what extent) is influencing the prices at the Forex market.
Most of the stuff I found on the Internet ...
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Extract individual currencies
I have timeseries for a bunch of currencies. For example, USD_NOK, EUR_USD, EUR_NOK, EUR_SEK and so forth. About 75 of them going back about 20 years in Pandas.
My goal is to isolate each currency ...
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Where could I get a mathematical background on circular arbitrage?
I am particularly interested in the dependence of profit on the path length (the number of intermediate currencies) and graphical models / algorithms. More specifically:
How can we model currency ...
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What is the relationship between volume and size?
Here is a snapshot of information about the last trade (tick), best bid/ask and 24h volume of BTC-EUR:
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how to model the volatility of the currency exchange rate
I want to estimate/predict the volatility of the currency exchange rate.
I have checked in literature a few models from very simple PPP to econometric factor model forecasting, to GARCH (for ...
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Currency of CDS and adjustment of interest rated for country risk
I have question concered currency of the CDS spreads.
In the analysis I am conducting, I perform adjustment of interest rates for country risk (CDS could be a reference to reflect a country risk).
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Short position in currency forward meaning
Trying to understand what being in a short position of a currency forward means.
For example, given a 60-day currency forward at 0.92154 pounds/euro where euro is ...
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How to calculate the Fx Forward Points for 3M
I'm trying to find the FX Forward Points for 3M, the same as in the table. However, in the conventional way (Forward points = Spot x (USD Rate - EUR Rate) x 90/360) I get a different result.
Can ...
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CDS currency and reference obligation currency
I have been reading a lot of posts on this topic, but still cannot find a definitive answer though.
If there is a CDS on a corporate reference entity in a currency denomination, does that imply there ...
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why is ADBSC currency positive?
Hi guys I am new to cross currency.
Could anyone explain why
ADBSC <curncy>
(Australian Dollar 3 month cross currency basis) in Bloomberg is always ...
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Alternative strategies for hedging customer FX positions in spot market
Generally, if an FX broker decides to hedge a customers' position, it automatically hedges the customer's trade to Liquidity Providers when the trade occurs in the spot market. Let's say, the customer ...
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How to determine exchange rate dynamics in currency derivatives
I need some guidance regarding exchange rate dynamics in currency derivatives.
Following three dynamics are defined below,
$\frac{dS(t)}{S(t)}=\alpha dt+\sigma dW(t)$ ; the stock dynamics in the ...
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What are “local” and “foreign” interest rate in this formula? [closed]
I found this formula to find fair value of a forex pair:
FV = Spot × e(local interest rate−foreign interest rate) × T
Taken for example AUDUSD,
Spot is AUD per USD.
T is the time to maturity of ...
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How currency swap works for big companies bond and cash management
Suppose a big company A holds 10 Million USD at T+0, and A knows that it will pay 9.9 Million CHF to buy a bond at T+1, why would company A be willing to enter a currency swap to buy CHF and sell USD ...
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What does **Long Call EURUSD** mean?
What does Long Call EURUSD mean? Does it mean Long Call EUR and Short Put USD? When we draw payoff do we consider only w.r.t. to CCY1 i.e. EUR in this case?
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Relation between ATM, RR and BF
In FX derivative market, why does vol spread of ATM > RR > BF? ATM is the most liquid and intuitively it should have the lowest spread. Please help me in understanding the rational behind the above ...
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Kingdom of Denmark Nikkei put warrants
I have read in a book from Emanuel Derman that Goldman Sachs manufactured a derivative in the early 90's that consisted of buying cheap puts on th Nikkei index (and paid in Yen), combined them which a ...
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How to understand interest rate bid/ask and apply client mark-up in Tom/Next Rollover Swap Point Calculation
When I am reading materials in swap point calculation for FX Tom/Next Rollover, I am confused with the market interest rate bid/ask.
Using an example:
I traded on ...
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Why do higher interest rates increase the value of the currency?
I've been trying to study about interest rates and foreign exchange. First of all when people say interest rate in this context do they mean interest rate set by the central bank like federal reserve (...
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Which rate to use as a risk free rate in emerging markets?
By looking at Fama and Frenchs global Portfolios, they just use the USD-RF rate as the risk free rate, because they converted their Returns to US-Dollar.
Im currently estimating Strategy Returns in ...
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Currency Hedged Excess Return
In the famous article "Global portfolio optimisation" of Black and Litterman, the authors defined the excess return on currency-hedged assets as the following :
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E_t = 100 \frac{P_{t+1}X_t}{P_tX_{...
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FX Options Greeks: Is there a meaning in converting the sensitivities values in different currencies?
Suppose you have a Call on JPY, domestic currency is USD
The price will be in USD
Let's say delta = 0.93
Does it make sense for any reporting reasons to convert this value into JPY ?
What is even the ...
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Basic FX-Forwards trading Guide [closed]
What fundamentals or other factors should one follow to trade currency Forwards intraday?
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How do you hedge with delta futures if payment is unsure?
A Czech company has a payable of 1,5 mil EUR that has got a settlement at the end of the current month and at the same time it is expecting a payment of 1,5 mil EUR at the half of the current month ...
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How are asset backed cryptocurrencies priced?
I am trying to understand the pricing of crypto currencies.
Assuming there is a fictional cryptocurrency that is pegged (say) the Chinese Renminbi and the price of Wheat (the relation being the ...
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Performance Call on a Futures
I'm not a 100% on when a margin call is on a group of future contracts...
The contract attributes were:
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Why currencies and futures contracts can be considered as assets with known yields?
I understand why stock index can be considered as assets with known yields due to the dividends.
But why currencies and futures contracts can also be considered as assets with known yields?
In the ...
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Group name for currencies, equities and other financial products
I am working on a financial software system that deals with crypto currencies.
This system has a model called 'Currency' that describes for example 'BTC' and market for which there is a 'base' and '...
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Hong Kong stocks and HSI - Turnover and market cap in HKD?
Hello sorry newbie questions - HSI (Hang Seng Index) and stocks under it, dividend,Turnover and Market Cap always in USD or in local currency HKD?
This is actually a broader questions for Asian ...
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Do Reuters or Eikon have intraday exchange rate data for minor currencies?
I need historical intraday exchange rate data (for a minor european currency - EURRSD) for my thesis. Not necessarily tick by tick - just prices at any interval below an hour will work.
I guess there ...
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Transform Fama French Returns to Euro
I constructed a global portfolio and calculate it's daily return in Euro.
Now i want to do the regression with the Fama-French daily factor-returns (HML, SMB). However, these returns can only be ...
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Quanto Factor - FX Forward
In the paper Quanto Options by Uwe Wystup the "quanto factor" $Q$ is used to describe forwards/options when quanto-ed into a different currency, e.g.
$$\text{Quanto Forward Value} = Q \cdot e^{-r_Q T}...
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credit spread ajustment considering currency
I would like to understand what is credit spread basis currency ajustment.
credit spread implied by a usd bond won't be the same as one implied by a chf bond, isn't it ?
Do you have any elements (...
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Benchmarking a foreign portfolio with SPY?
Here is something I'm struggling with for a few days now. I'm an European individual investor managing a small portfolio in EUR. However I mainly hold US securities, in USD. I do not hedge my exposure ...
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Modelling EUR/USD rate with Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model
I have a data set of daily EUR/USD rate for time period 2000-2018.
My goal is to model future behaviour of this financial time series using Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model: $$d X_t = \alpha (\theta - X_t) ...
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Implied Volatility of cross currency pairs
Been looking for this...
Is there any way we can infer directly, say GBP-JPY's 1-year volatility from GBP-USD's and USD-JPY's?
Many thanks.
