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A note on setting swap parameters for traders.
In this paper the zero vanna implied volatility approximation for the price of freshly minted volatility swaps is generalised to seasoned volatility swaps. We also derive how volatility swaps can be hedged using a strip of vanilla options with weights that are directly related to trading intuition. Additionally, we der…
We introduce trading fees into AMM models and analyze their impact on swap rates and profits.
In the recent years, banks have sold structured products such as worst-of options, Everest and Himalayas, resulting in a short correlation exposure. They have hence become interested in offsetting part of this exposure, namely buying back correlation. Two ways have been proposed for such a strategy : either pure correl…
Proposes a new method for completing swap cycles in decentralized exchanges.
Study examines trading costs on Uniswap, finding adversarial slippage is significant for large trades and certain assets.
Study finds discrepancies in open interest reporting for Bitcoin perpetual swaps.
An uncollateralized swap hedged back-to-back by a CCP swap is used to introduce FVA. The open IR01 of FVA, however, is a sure sign of risk not being fully hedged, a theoretical no-arbitrage pricing concern, and a bait to lure market risk capital, a practical business concern. By dynamically trading the CCP swap, with t…
In fixed income sector, the yield curve is probably the most observed indicator by the market for trading and fifinancing purposes. A yield curve plots interest rates across different contract maturities from short end to as long as 30 years. For each currency, the corresponding curve shows the relation between the lev…
Walraswap solves batch auction pricing by finding optimal AMM swaps.
Italian banks use swaps to hedge against rising interest rates, offsetting losses on debt securities.
This paper presents hedging strategies for European and exotic options in a Levy market. By applying Taylor's Theorem, dynamic hedging portfolios are con- structed under different market assumptions, such as the existence of power jump assets or moment swaps. In the case of European options or baskets of European optio…
Realised pay-offs for discretisation-invariant swaps are those which satisfy a restricted `aggregation property' of Neuberger [2012] for twice continuously differentiable deterministic functions of a multivariate martingale. They are initially characterised as solutions to a second-order system of PDEs, then those pay-…
Study compares CDS databases and finds discrepancies due to various factors.
Investors optimize equity and CDS trading to mitigate default risk.
Study on collateral currency impact in differential swaps valuation.
A new AMM mechanism reduces losses and maximizes revenue from orderflows.
Equity default-swaps pay the holder a fixed amount of money when the underlying spot level touches a (far-down) barrier during the life of the instrument. While most pricing models give reasonable results when the barrier lies within the range of liquidly traded strikes of plain-vanilla option prices, the situation is …
DGNN predicts financial margin calls under stress tests.
In this theoretical paper, I propose creation of a venture bank, able to multiply the capital of a venture capital firm by at least 47 times, without requiring access to the Federal Reserve or other central bank apart from settlement. This concept rests on obtaining default swap instruments on loans in order to create …
Revisits Lee's Moment Formula, relaxing moment assumptions for implied volatility.
In the forthcoming ISDA Standard Credit Support Annex (SCSA), the trades denominated in non-G5 currencies as well as those include multiple currencies are expected to be allocated to the USD silo, where the contracts are collateralized by USD cash, or a different currency with an appropriate interest rate overlay to ac…
It is commonly accepted that Commodities futures and forward prices, in principle, agree under some simplifying assumptions. One of the most relevant assumptions is the absence of counterparty risk. Indeed, due to margining, futures have practically no counterparty risk. Forwards, instead, may bear the full risk of def…
New EPS insurance offers partial protection against superannuation losses.
Uniswap analyzes liquidity provider risk and impermanent loss.
Debt swaps improve financial networks by optimizing clearing payments and stability.
This study evaluates price improvements in order flow auctions on Ethereum.
Swapping debt contracts can mitigate risk in financial networks.
We derive an arbitrage free relationship between recovery swap rates, digital default swap spreads and conventional CDS spreads, and argue that the fair forward recovery rate used in recovery swaps must contain a convexity premium over the expected recovery value.
The paper prices swaps on generalized variance measures for multiple assets.
Reinforcement learning crypto agent achieves high returns on Bitcoin derivatives.
This study reviews techniques to estimate volatility and price Variance Swaps.
F. Labourie [arXiv:1212.5015] characterized the Hitchin components for for any by using the swapping algebra, where the swapping algebra should be understood as a ring equipped with a Poisson bracket. We introduce the rank swapping algebra, which is the quotient of the swap…
In this paper, we model financial markets with semi-Markov volatilities and price covarinace and correlation swaps for this markets. Numerical evaluations of vari- nace, volatility, covarinace and correlations swaps with semi-Markov volatility are presented as well. The novelty of the paper lies in pricing of volatilit…
Exact relationships found between ATM slope, volatility swap, and zero vanna.
Paper solves no-swap regret minimization for combinatorial bandits with polylogarithmic dependence on N.
This paper examines challenges in analyzing NFT transaction data.
We consider the high-dimensional sparse linear regression problem of accurately estimating a sparse vector using a small number of linear measurements that are contaminated by noise. It is well known that the standard cadre of computationally tractable sparse regression algorithms---such as the Lasso, Orthogonal Matchi…
The paper extends the market price of risk for electricity swap contracts, incorporating jump risk.
Improved bounds for multicalibration and omniprediction in online and distributional settings.
The paper prices and replicates various financial contracts on a risky asset with stochastic volatility and jumps.
New metrics improve quantum ensemble learning efficiency and power.
A variance swap is a derivative with a path-dependent payoff which allows investors to take positions on the future variability of an asset. In the idealised setting of a continuously monitored variance swap written on an asset with continuous paths it is well known that the variance swap payoff can be replicated exact…
The SABR model is shortly presented and the volatility swap explained. The fair value for a volatility swap is then computed using the usual theory in financial mathematics. An analytical solution using confluent hypergeometric functions is found. The solution is then verified using Rama Cont's functional calculus.
Paper examines pricing and hedging for cross-currency swaps referencing backward-looking rates.
Lower bound found for volatility swap in SABR model.
This paper proposes swaps on two important new measures of generalized variance, namely the maximum eigen-value and trace of the covariance matrix of the assets involved. We price these generalized variance swaps for financial markets with Markov-modulated volatilities. We consider multiple assets in the portfolio for …
We study the fair strike of a discrete variance swap for a general time-homogeneous stochastic volatility model. In the special cases of Heston, Hull-White and Schobel-Zhu stochastic volatility models we give simple explicit expressions (improving Broadie and Jain (2008a) in the case of the Heston model). We give condi…