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The post investigates a small discrepancy between an AUD/USD vanilla option premium and implied volatility calculated to match a commercial pricing engine. The example has the premium date equal to the delivery date, and the author suspects that discounting…
An FX risk reversal combines a call and a put with the same delta, and the document explains how dealers quote the bid and offer for that package. For a 25-delta EUR call and put, the package bid corresponds to buying the call and selling the put; the offer…
A trader describes accidentally opening a USD/RUB position at an unintended price after misreading decimal notation and the displayed spread. As the spread narrowed, the reported loss fell, but the trader eventually closed the position at a loss. The account…
The document considers whether currency positioning data precedes price movements. It describes applying Granger causality tests to paired positioning and price series, with several lags, and advises interpreting the p-values against the null hypothesis of…
The document discusses whether currency futures or spot markets typically lead price discovery, including during news events. Its response describes major electronic spot venues and CME futures as interconnected liquidity pools. It says futures prices should…
The document derives a static option representation for an exchange-rate-linked payoff that pays nothing below a lower threshold, rises over an intermediate range, and is capped at a fixed amount above an upper threshold. By rewriting the payoff in terms of…
The document compares FX forwards and swaps as tools for managing future currency cash flows. A forward fixes an exchange rate for a single future settlement, making it suitable when an exporter knows the amount and timing of foreign-currency receipts and…
The document explains how to represent foreign and domestic interest rates when pricing an option on a currency pair. In its AUD/USD example, the question is whether the Australian deposit rate acts like a dividend yield and whether the pricing function…
The document asks whether leverage should multiply entry and exit prices when calculating profit and loss on a CFD or forex trade. Its accepted explanation separates price profit from financing: profit is the exit price minus the entry price, while funding…
The document explains why early exercise can be optimal for an American put on foreign currency. It relates foreign exchange options to options on dividend-paying stocks: holding foreign currency earns the foreign risk-free rate, which acts like a dividend…
The question seeks a hindsight trading sequence from OHLC forex bars, subject to leverage, spread, and a lookahead window intended to reduce exposure near whipsaws. The proposed method is to formulate the sequence of positions across bars as a candidate…
The document considers whether donated historical tick data can support a free public market-data service. Its main lesson is that collecting and redistributing intraday data involves legal and operational obligations: a distributor may need agreements with…
The discussion considers why a binomial model for an exchange rate can produce different risk-neutral up probabilities when constructed from the domestic and foreign currency perspectives. It clarifies that risk and returns are measured in the investor’s…
The document discusses aggregating hourly market data into daily open, high, low, and close bars whose boundaries follow trading sessions rather than UTC calendar days. The motivating example spans the Asian session through the New York close, with a day…
Interest rates may be quoted using annual, periodic, or continuous compounding. These conventions express growth over time with different formulas, so the quoted rate alone is not enough to compare instruments: the compounding basis must also be known.…
The document asks whether one-year volatility for a cross currency pair such as GBP/JPY can be inferred directly from the volatilities of GBP/USD and USD/JPY. The response points to material on converting foreign exchange volatility surfaces between base…
The document collects possible sources for historical end-of-day foreign exchange prices, including broker quote archives, a free exchange-rate service, central-bank publications, and a commercial historical-price provider. It emphasizes that a daily FX…
The question asks why a QuantLib Black delta calculator appears to convert between delta and strike without using time to expiry. The accepted explanation is that expiry is already reflected in the calculator’s inputs: discount factors for the relevant rates…
The document asks how to align daily returns from markets with different holidays when regressing a Japanese stock on the S&P 500. The response says alignment should follow the prediction or relationship being studied, and notes that simply matching calendar…
The document explains why converting a standard FX option value into a different premium currency can be straightforward in some contracts but incorrect for others. It distinguishes a payoff that converts the underlying currency amount at the prevailing…
The document compares FX swaps, cross-currency swaps, and cross-currency basis swaps, then applies those distinctions to a Malaysian company issuing a Singapore-dollar bond. It explains that an FX swap exchanges principal at the start and end, while…
The note explains how to infer an AUD funding basis from FX swap or forward prices by comparing the observed spot and forward exchange rates with the relevant AUD and USD interest rates. Using OIS rates yields a basis relative to those benchmarks; another…
The discussion reviews whether ideas associated with Mandelbrot, including multifractal processes and fractional Brownian motion, have led to useful asset price forecasts. It notes that estimating the Hurst exponent is a key step, but can be difficult.…
The document explains why one candle’s close and the next candle’s open may not match. A common cause is a market closure: information arriving while trading is halted can be reflected in the reopening price. This can create gaps between daily stock candles…