Market Analysis Crude Oil Crude oil remained weak during the week with WTI closed at $43.10/BBL and Brent closed at $45.66/BBL on Friday, a decrease of 3.67% on Brent. The bearish tone is primarily due to the fact that OPEC cut is proving ineffective as
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Excel convergence hacks for TARF pricing models. Convergence between closed form and simulation model prices is enhanced with variance reduction procedures. It encourages model extension to complex products. For our TARF pricing model in its original form convergence is a challenge. We will try and
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TARF Pricing model guide Our new eight part series on TARF Pricing model guide is now live. The objective of the pricing model guide is to introduce both product features and behavior as well as pricing approaches to this common FX structure that can now
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Excel TARF Pricing Models – Black Scholes approach Our alternate Excel TARF Pricing model uses the Black Scholes close form solution to find a price. The TARF contract described in the product term sheet above is equal to having a series of forward contracts that
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TARF Pricing Models Our two part series on TARF pricing models begins where we stopped with our analysis on TARF hedge effectiveness. We cover both vanilla TARF (without any path dependent options) and Knock in Knock out (KIKO) TARF’s in that discussion. In this post
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The case for participating forwards This week we took a deep look at a number of common structured products and their hedge effectiveness. One product stood out in terms of its performance and that was the unconventional participating forward contract. Traditionally when we look at
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Market Analysis Crude Oil Crude oil remained weak during the week with WTI closed at $44.74/BBL and Brent closed at $47.37/BBL on Friday. OPEC monthly out report depicted increase of 0.33 million barrel a day primarily from Nigeria and Libya, which are not part of
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Market Analysis Crude Oil Crude oil remained weak during the week with WTI closed at $44.74/BBL and Brent closed at $47.37/BBL on Friday. OPEC monthly out report depicted increase of 0.33 million barrel a day primarily from Nigeria and Libya, which are not part of
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Teaching computational finance to ordinary mortals. Time sure flies when you are having fun. It’s been 7 years and change since we first started this project as an experiment. An initial dump of class notes for my students that over time grew into eleven hundred
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Teaching computational finance to ordinary mortals. Time sure flies when you are having fun. It’s been 7 years and change since we first started this project as an experiment. An initial dump of class notes for my students that over time grew into eleven hundred
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