Questions tagged [currency]
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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 Calculate Discrete Currency Returns for Short Positions
I need to calculate currency returns for 1) short selling the currency and 2) going long in the currency. When going long, the currency is sold at Forward price $F_t$ and bought at spot price $S_{t+1}$...
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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 Ć e(local interest rateāforeign interest rate) Ć T
Taken for example AUDUSD,
Spot is AUD per USD.
T is the time to maturity of ...
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How to hedge payments in a foreign currency?
IĀ“m confronted with solving the following exercise:
"Suppose that now is 1 March. You are a UK based exporter whoĀ“ll export products to a U.S. company for 250,000 US dollars and to a French company ...
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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.
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How to find an initial equilibrium benchmark portfolio that includes currencies for Black-Litterman model
We're working on a term project to adjust B-L model to yield robust results. From our readings, we resulted in that initial benchmark portfolio is constructed by using market capitalization weight. ...
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Do we model nominal or real prices of assets?
The answer is probably obvious, but interestingly enough, I was not able to find it in explicit form in the mathematical finance textbooks.
So when Shreve says in paragraph 5.2.2 of SCF-II:
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Transform 24hr cumulative volume to sampled periods
I have a Python Dataframe with cryptocurrency data that has three columns: time, 24hr volume and price.
The time is the time at which the data was received from the exchange, price is the last price ...
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Minimum Lower Partial Moment (n=2) hedging ratio
I would like to better have understanding on the minimum-LPM hedging. I have understood that the co-LPM matrix cannot be modeled by GARCH type models that are used to estimate to the covariance matrix,...
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Existential question about currency exchange Risk Factor
Ciao All,
I'm working to a problem about sensitivities for products with several ccy and this questions came out.
For simplicity consider a linear product (a simple cash flow) w.r.t. the ccy ...
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Where can I get Currency options historical data?
where can I get historical data for currency options?
For most part, google gives me links to binary options and other shady webpages.
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Calculating total market price of security
Typically securities trade on a primary exchange and as such the 'price' of that security is quoted from the primary exchange.
For example Exxon (XOM) stock is listed on the NYSE, even though there ...
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Is order amount related to base or quote in a currency pair?
Say I have a currency pair GBP/USD at rate 1.45, buying 1 GBP costs ...
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Put-Call Parity on Currency and Binomial Trees
I tried solving the below problem without knowing the shortcut of thinking about this in terms of a put versus a call. I can't seem to arrive at the correct answer using my method and I'm wondering ...
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Calculate price variance caused by denominating currency
I would like to calculate asset correlations while excluding movements resulting from the denominating currency (as much as possible). My common sense tells me that any two assets with the same ...
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Decreasing Forward FX rate curve
i've constructed a Forward FX curve using the formula:
$F= Spot \frac{(1+I_b*n/N)}{(1+I_c*n/N)}$
when i get these Forward rates for 1 month, 3, 6 till 1 year i got a decreasing forward Fx Curve
How ...
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Why would a weaker dollar keep borrowing costs low
I was reading this article and I am puzzled by this phrase:
A weaker dollar has made it easier to sell U.S.-made goods overseas and kept borrowing costs low.
How can a weaker dollar keep borrowing ...
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Regressing non-USD returns on FF 3-factor returns
I am analysing some portfolio returns from the perspective of a Danish investor, i.e. in the local currency, DKK.
I want to regress portfolio returns in DKK on the returns of a 3 factor Fama & ...
