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The document addresses how to estimate a cross currency basis for EUR/USD and explains why comparing forward-rate differentials directly can produce implausible results at some tenors. One answer gives an illustrative one-year calculation: infer a yield from…
The document examines a coin-toss trading rule that places a stop 0.5 ATR from the entry and a profit target 2 ATR away, asking why it loses in foreign exchange. Its central point is that an apparently favorable reward-to-risk ratio does not by itself create…
The document explains how repeatedly renewing short-dated FX forwards can hedge a foreign-currency portfolio position even when the investment has no fixed exit date. The key mechanism is that a change in spot exchange rates creates gains or losses on the…
The document compares a standard fixed-for-fixed cross-currency swap with front and back notional exchanges against a version that exchanges notionals only at the start. Its central pricing observation is that the standard swap minus the version without the…
The document explains why a cross-currency basis, such as the cited euro–dollar spread, can persist even when interest rate parity suggests an arbitrage opportunity. One source is one-sided hedging demand: companies borrowing in one currency may swap their…
The document explains why exchange-traded commodity futures are commonly quoted by contract expiry month, while swaps and other over-the-counter fixed-income products are often quoted by tenor. Futures exchanges concentrate trading in a limited set of…
The document asks how to separate individual currency movements from a set of bilateral exchange-rate time series. Its main suggested approach is an effective exchange rate: a weighted average of a currency’s values against trading partners’ currencies. The…
The document discusses curve construction in an emerging market where a conventional local interest-rate swap curve is not observable. Its Argentina example describes using cross-currency swaps that exchange fixed local-currency payments for floating US…
The document addresses how FX traders estimate forward prices for maturities that are not directly quoted. It reports that linear interpolation of forward points is common practice. The rationale is that forward points are a difference from spot and can be…
The document describes an attempt to reproduce EUR/USD cross-currency basis discount factors from market inputs. The author first builds EUR and USD overnight-indexed swap curves, then uses FX forward invariance to infer EUR discount factors under a USD…
The document asks whether the volatility of a cross rate such as EUR/GBP can be derived from the volatilities of GBP/USD and EUR/USD, together with their correlation. It starts from the spot-rate identity that expresses one leg of a currency triangle as the…
The document distinguishes an unhedged foreign exchange carry trade from a forward trade that locks in an exchange rate. Carry involves borrowing the lower-interest-rate currency and holding the higher-interest-rate currency, leaving the investor exposed to…
The document answers a narrow data-provenance question about currency exchange rates shown on Yahoo Finance. It identifies ICE data services as the source, citing Yahoo Finance’s data-provider disclaimer. This gives researchers a starting point for…
The question asks whether estimating an AR(1) mean model first and then fitting a stochastic volatility model could introduce bias, especially into the autoregressive estimate. The response points to a joint Bayesian approach that includes an AR(1) structure…
The document describes estimating separate currency movements from a network of forex pairs. A single pair such as GBP/USD identifies only the relative change between its currencies, so the two component changes cannot be uniquely recovered from that quote…
Forex quote precision is not a single fixed property of a currency pair. The discussion distinguishes the traditional pip from finer fractional-pip increments, and explains that spot platforms, data vendors, and forward markets can display or accept…
The document explains how to estimate a short-dated EUR/USD cross-currency basis from spot and forward FX rates together with the relevant interest rates. It applies covered interest rate parity: the forward rate and the euro rate imply a dollar borrowing…
The document discusses constructing an implied volatility curve from at-the-money and 25-delta option quotes using the vanna–volga approach. The questioner describes calculating an adjusted option price by adding weighted market-versus-Black–Scholes price…
The discussion explains why a euro-denominated target return cannot be converted into a sterling hurdle rate simply by multiplying it by the current exchange rate. An exchange rate converts currency amounts; it does not translate a percentage return target…
The document discusses how to interpolate an FX volatility smile quoted at five delta points: 10-delta and 25-delta puts, at-the-money, and 25-delta and 10-delta calls. The question arises because basic vanna-volga uses three points and may not represent…
The document answers where researchers can obtain historical quotes for currency options. It points to WRDS, the Wharton Research Data Services platform, and specifies the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) currency options selection as the relevant source.…
The document explains how to measure profit and loss on an FX swap after its near leg has settled. The remaining forward still has value, while the currency received or delivered on settlement remains an asset or liability exposed to spot movements. For an…
A position in an emerging-market currency against the US dollar also carries exposure to movements in the dollar relative to other developed currencies. To isolate the desired emerging-currency risk, the note proposes estimating hedge weights with multiple…
The document proposes a hypothesis about how FX option dealers’ aggregate gamma exposure may affect spot-market behavior. Dealers who are long gamma are described as hedging in ways that could dampen price moves, while short-gamma hedging could amplify them.…