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How to value 3mo SOFR Spreads one year out, 2yr out
How does one value a 3mo spread spread in the far out future from present if fomc meeting schedule is only published for one year, and even with fomc's dot plot, it just shows the median expectation ...
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Modified Duration vs. Real-World Bond Price and Yield Changes
We know that modified duration at time $t$ of a bond with maturity $n$ is defined as:
$$
D_{nt} = - \frac{1}{P_{nt}} \frac{\partial{P_{nt}}}{\partial y_{nt}}
$$
And the definition of a derivative is:
$...
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What is the Italian BTP yield calculation in last period?
I chose this example becuase it highlight two aspects I can't reverse engineer and can't find any official source documentation.
BTP: IT0005518128: 1/Nov/2022 -> 1/May/2033 at 4.4%.
If this bond is ...
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Proving that Convexity approx. equals Duration squared but something goes wrong?
I am trying to derive a formula for bond convexity that I saw in a textbook which states that
$$\text{convexity} = \frac{\text{Macaulay duration}^2 + \text{Macaulay duration} + \text{dispersion}}{(1+\...
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Estimating the price of an illiquid 5y bond futures contract
Say I know the price of 10y Gilt futures, 10y Treasury futures, 5y Treasury futures, and GBPUSD futures.
I am asked to produce a quote on 5y Gilt futures using only this data. What is a sensible ...
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Parallel shift in spot yield curve moves the IRR of a bond portfolio in the same direction: Analytical Proof
I am trying to prove that a parallel shift in the spot yield curve will as its effect have the IRR of a bond portfolio move in the same direction and by the same amount.
I have tested this on few ...
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Market Data UST
There a lot of new market data providers for retail algo traders.
For example the famous one for option is Theta Data Net and for Equities it is Polygon IO. You basically get all the greek/price data ...
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Bond Basis (non CTD)
I had a query regarding the trading of non CTD (but deliverable) basis. Obviously someone can buy non CTD basis (buy cash / sell bond future), with the hopes this widens, clearly I would not want to ...
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Recommended Setup for QuantLib-Python AmortizingFloatingRateBond
I am trying to model a term loan in QuantLib-Python that makes quarterly interest payments at CME Term SOFR 3M + 10bps + 525bps paid in arrears with a 2 business ...
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Why is accrued interest prorated linearly?
Cashflows from coupons and principal are discounted using the YTM to get PV of the bond in dirty price.
as shown here in this question
Misunderstanding of 'day counts' and accrued interest
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Calculating spread on a par rate curve given bond’s coupon and yield
In Tuckman and Serrat’s Fixed Income Securities, they give an example of a bond and state its coupon and yield.
They also provide an HQM par rate curve and quote the bond’s spread to this curve.
How ...
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Securities lending vs repo transactions
I have recently started on a repo/SBL trading desk and I am struggling to understand some theory. Normally, in a secured hard-to-borrow secured transaction, I pledge general collateral, receive the ...
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Setting up QuantLib to get correct yield for bond with long first payment period
I am dealing with fixed rate bonds. There is one particular bond, 34659UAC0, that caught my eye. This bond has a first coupon period of a whopping 5 years, followed by regular periods of 6 months. My ...
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Bond basis arbitrage
The popular media refers to US.bond future basis trades in some contracts as arbitrage..they cite that as the future trades richer to cash hedge funds can buy basis and make money.
I'll assume they'...
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Simulating the Term Structure of Interest Rates in the CIR model
I have successfully implemented the CIR model of the short rate, and now want to use these short rate paths to construct distributions of various tenors - 2y, 3y, 5y, 10y for example - across the ...
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