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The document considers how to run Fama-French regressions for euro-denominated investments when the available factors are in US dollars and the investments may also carry international currency exposure. It contrasts converting returns to dollars, using euro…
The document outlines a way to estimate a five-year UK gilt yield, and a potential futures price, when the contract is illiquid and only a few related market quotes are available. It first fits a US Treasury curve to short and longer maturity rate…
The document explores why correlation between a foreign underlying asset and the exchange rate matters for a quanto option, whose payoff is fixed in the holder’s currency. The questioner compares extreme positive and negative correlation cases in a simple…
The document considers a short over-the-counter foreign exchange forward hedged with a long exchange-traded currency future when their maturities differ. It identifies counterparty exposure if the forward counterparty defaults while the futures position…
The document asks how to price equity quanto options with a local-stochastic volatility model, building on a proposed Heston approach that adjusts equity and variance dynamics for quanto effects. The supplied answer recommends modeling both the equity and…
The document considers how to size three long and short currency positions to target a specified annual portfolio volatility while allocating risk equally. The proposed procedure first scales each currency position separately so that each standalone position…
The document asks whether sharp foreign exchange price moves around short binary option expiries reflect trades or misleading posted bids, and where traders can inspect FX order depth. The answer attributes many such moves to market makers hedging binary…
The document poses an instrument-selection problem: how to hedge an interest-rate differential sensitivity produced by a statistical model of spot FX returns on an intraday basis. The author seeks low trading costs and near-continuous availability, with an…
The document discusses when FX spot value dates roll and whether NZD pairs follow a different schedule. It presents competing explanations: one answer says NZD pairs roll at the Auckland market’s opening while most other pairs use the New York close; another…
The document describes a proposed EUR/USD forecasting workflow: take end-of-day closes, log-difference them to seek stationarity, fit an ARMA model using Box–Jenkins methods, inspect residuals, and use their assumed normal distribution to form cumulative…
The document asks whether a quanto put can have a nonzero foreign-exchange delta, despite the common impression that quanto options are insensitive to FX. The question describes a case where the put’s calculated FX delta is positive and attributes this…
The document considers whether EUR/USD returns can serve as the market benchmark when applying CAPM to Bitcoin returns. Its response treats Bitcoin as a currency for this purpose and suggests constructing a broader currency-market proxy by averaging returns…
The document examines an apparent mean-reverting basket built from several foreign-exchange rates. The proposed process fits a linear regression to estimate hedge ratios, forms a spread, then applies an augmented Dickey–Fuller test. The reported significance…
The document asks how the European equity factors in the Kenneth French data library are expressed in US dollars and whether the returns assume currency hedging. The response points to the research paper describing the international factor construction and…
The document presents a Monte Carlo setup for pricing a basket option on nine currency crosses. It updates each cross over multiple time steps using lognormal dynamics, with correlated normal draws supplied in a simulation array. At each simulation’s end, it…
The discussion asks whether statistical arbitrage can work in foreign exchange and describes a study of relative-value trading among G10 currencies. The cited approach forms currency pairs from USD crosses, measures their misalignment, and trades when…
The discussion explains possible routes to real-time forex data over FIX and why access may be difficult to obtain cheaply. It describes FX as an interbank market where a firm typically connects through chosen banks, while noting that banks may offer FIX for…
The document asks how to classify leveraged currency-pair positions offered by retail FX brokers under the CFI instrument taxonomy. It observes that these positions are generally not settled by delivering the full currency notional, which complicates…
The document asks how EUR/JPY option skew relates to the skews of USD/EUR and USD/JPY options. It gives the standard variance relationship for a currency cross: the cross variance depends on the two component variances and their correlation. Rearranging this…
The document describes a workflow for obtaining stock price data, turning timestamped records into a Pandas DataFrame, and saving the results. The intended application is to compare American depositary receipts with their ordinary-share counterparts,…
The document asks what can move the Mexico cross-currency basis curve and whether FX changes or expected rate cuts are the main drivers. The answers explain the basis as a measure of deviation from covered interest parity and a signal of relative demand for…
The discussion compares Bloomberg’s BGN and CMPN sources for EUR/USD FX option volatility quotes, especially butterfly quotes used in strategies that trade convexity. The answer describes BGN as a generic daily close and CMPN as a composite of contributor…
The document asks how to adapt a Heston European call formula for an FX pair, where pricing involves both a domestic rate and a foreign rate. It supplies a stock-option integral formula, a characteristic function, and proposed asset and variance dynamics,…
The document explains an FX swap as an exchange of currencies at spot with a later reversal, and asks how to value the remaining cash flows. Its answer emphasizes that market quotes use forward points: the forward rate is the spot rate plus the quoted…