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The document asks how to represent overnight, tomorrow-next, and spot-next foreign-exchange rate quotes when building an overnight-indexed curve in QuantLib. The proposed setup creates separate overnight indices with different settlement-day counts and…
The document explains the currency exposures involved in delta hedging a USDJPY option. In the example, a bank has sold a dollar put and calculates a short dollar hedge from the option’s delta. That hedge is paired with a long yen position at the prevailing…
The document explains how a forward exchange rate above the level implied by spot and the two currency interest rates creates a covered interest arbitrage. The proposed trade borrows the foreign currency, exchanges it for the home currency at spot, invests…
The document examines a foreign-exchange spot quoted as dollars per euro and compares expectations under dollar and euro risk-neutral measures. The question derives discounted-price expectation identities using each currency's bank-account numeraire, then…
This discussion frames Funding Valuation Adjustment (FVA) through an uncollateralized FX forward with a client, hedged by a bank under a Credit Support Annex. It asks what an FVA calculated from the trade’s expected exposure profile represents, given that…
The document distinguishes spot at-the-money options from at-the-money-forward options in foreign exchange. In the described convention, an ATM option has a strike equal to the current spot rate and its delta is hedged in the spot market. An ATMF option uses…
The document addresses a discrepancy between a calculated FX option delta and a market terminal’s value. The key clarification is that the instrument is a digital vanilla, or binary, option, so ordinary vanilla Black–Scholes delta inputs and intuition do not…
The document explains why the hedge quantity for an FX option can differ from its standard Black–Scholes spot delta when the option premium is received or paid in the foreign currency. The premium itself already provides exposure to that currency, so the…
The document explains two ways to think about probability distributions for foreign-exchange prices. For a distribution implied by traded options, it describes the risk-neutral density: butterfly spreads across strikes convey information about probabilities…
The document explains how to price currency forwards across different maturities and reconcile a theoretical GBP/USD forward with traded futures. Its central approach expresses the forward as the current exchange rate multiplied by the foreign discount…
The document surveys instruments traders use to infer market expectations for central bank policy rates. For the United States, it describes extracting an implied move from one-month Fed Funds futures under the simplifying assumption that the overnight rate…
The document identifies Bloomberg’s EUR swap curve as the counterpart to its USD swap curve, explaining that both are built using comparable instrument sets and curve construction methods. The curves can be formed with or without OIS discounting. It points…
The document discusses data choices for studying covered interest parity (CIP) across currencies when general collateral repo rates at term maturities are difficult to obtain. It explains that short-dated, high-quality government bonds and reverse repos can…
The document asks how to represent two-month and three-month maturities from a broker’s implied FX volatility delta-tenor table when using the Black–Scholes formula. It contrasts converting the tenor to a simple year fraction, such as months over twelve,…
The document explains how Fill-or-Kill (FOK) and Immediate-or-Cancel (IOC) limit orders behave when available book liquidity is sufficient or insufficient for the requested quantity. In its example, a buy order for 10 units at a limit price with 15 units…
The document asks how to find the lower five-percent quantile of daily currency returns separately for each month. One response gives a direct spreadsheet method: calculate the fifth percentile of the month's return observations. Another suggests sorting…
The explanation changes from the foreign risk-neutral measure to the domestic measure using a Radon–Nikodym density tied to the exchange rate and money market accounts. Girsanov’s theorem shifts the correlated Brownian motions, producing domestic-measure…
The question asks whether the quantities displayed on the ask and bid sides of an order book can measure short positions as a share of market activity. The answer redirects the analysis from resting orders to completed trades: match trade ticks with the best…
The document examines how to quote an FX swap when the near and far legs have different notionals. It presents a proposed shortcut based on net spot exposure and far-leg swap points, then compares it with pricing each leg separately. A worked EUR/USD example…
The document concerns evaluating density forecasts derived from GBP/USD options. The author has estimated a time series of risk-neutral densities nonparametrically and wants to apply the unconditional test described by Christoffersen and Mazzotta. The…
The document concerns Japan’s benchmark interest rates, particularly TONAR and TIBOR, and asks how they differ from yen LIBOR and where to find TONAR’s calculation methodology. The response recommends an interest-rate instruments and market conventions guide…
The document considers which discount curve to use for an uncollateralized cross-currency swap when valuation is expressed across two currencies. It weighs choosing a reporting currency and building a second curve with foreign-exchange forward or…
The document discusses how to include cash currencies in the market-capitalization benchmark used to initialize a Black–Litterman portfolio. One response says weights depend on the investor’s risk-free reference currency: domestic cash may serve as…
The question considers whether a euro holder who wants exposure to EUR/USD could instead trade a futures contract quoted in the reciprocal direction and post margin in euros, avoiding currency conversion. The answer identifies the CME Euro FX futures…