Calculation references for Forward Price, Spot Rates & Forward Rates, Yield to Maturity, Forward Rate Agreement (FRA), Forward Contract and Forward Exchange Rates.
Short and sweet Lessons in Forward Pricing
Valuing a forward contract in Excel – Lesson Zero
Calculating Forward Prices in Excel – Lesson 1
Calculating Forward Prices and YTMS in Excel – Lesson 2
Calculating Forward [...]
Tag Archives: Pricing Glossary
Calculation references for Risk Metrics, Holding Period Return, Standard Deviation/ Volatility, Annualized Return , Annualized Volatility, Sharpe Ratio, Beta, Treynor Ratio, Jensen’s Alpha, Correlation coefficient, r
and Portfolio Volatility taking into account correlations.
Risk Metrics
Holding Period Return
For the calculation of Sharpe and Treynor Ratio(see below) the holding periodreturn derived above is scaled to a year, i.e. to [...]
This formula reference includes the following formula, sections and terms related to calculating Value at Risk
Duration, Convexity and Asset Liability Management
Duration
Convexity
Approximate Price Change
Duration
Convexity
Where,
?i= change in yield (in decimals)
P0= Initial Price
P+= Price if yields increase by ?i
P-= Price if yields decline by ?i
Approximate Price Change
Total estimated percentage price change= -Duration×?i×100+Convexity×(?i)2×100
Here is a pricing and valuation equation glossary for the financial engineering field used as a reference for the courses posted on Learning Corporate Finance . If you have come across a missing equation previously on a Learning Corporate Finance course, you will find it here.
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Interest Rate Swaps and Future Contracts
Pricing Interest Rate Swap
Pricing Net Cash Flow
Valuing Futures contracts
Valuing Stock Index Futures
Pricing Futures Contracts on Currencies
Pricing Futures Contracts on Commodities
Pricing Futures Price for Treasury Bond futures contracts
Interest Rate Swap
Net Cash Flow
The net cash flow for the buyer of the contract (receiver of floating leg and payer of fixed leg) at [...]
Black Formula’s and valuing Interest Rate Caps and Floors
Value of a caplet
The value of a caplet which resets at time ti and payoffs at time ti+1 is:
Where
is known as the forward premium
X is the Strike
Fi is the forward rate at time 0 for the period between and ti+1
?ti is the volatility of this forward interest [...]
Black Scholes, Derivative Pricing and Binomial Trees
Black Scholes Formula for the value of an Option
Call option price (c)
Put option price (p)
Greeks (Delta, Gama, Vega, Theta, Rho)
Using Binomial Trees for pricing an option
Probability of an up move at a binomial tree node
Price of the option at a binomial tree node
The value of European Call option
price (c)
price [...]
Here is a pricing and valuation equation glossary for the financial engineering field used as a reference for the courses posted on Learning Corporate Finance. If you have come across a missing equation previously on a Learning Corporate Finance course, you will find it here.
For a complete reference to equations and calculator referred to in [...]
