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Re: ExCouponPeriod not available in QuantLibXL function qFixedRateBond

Posted by Eric Ehlers-3 on Feb 28, 2016; 10:04pm
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/ExCouponPeriod-not-available-in-QuantLibXL-function-qFixedRateBond-tp17312p17322.html

Hi Francois,

You can log PRs against my quantlib-old repo.  If we don't port them to
the new build in time for the next release then we will package the old
build.

Kind Regards,
Eric

On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:24:40 +0200
Francois Botha <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Eric,
>
> Can I log PRs against the old QuantlibXL repo or should I target the
> new one based on reposit?  I see the new one repo has only vc9 files
> in, so it's first going to be some work adding the newer solution
> files. If I can, I'd prefer to log a PR against the old repo and
> hopefully than can be ported to the new one. Is that possible?
>
> thanks
>
> Francois Botha
>
> On 22 February 2016 at 16:23, Francois Botha <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Any new parameters have to be explicitly added to the QuantLibXL
> > interfaces as well. I was looking into it, but hit a bit of a wall
> > on the CPI bonds, basically because the number of parameters became
> > too many.
> >
> > If you're interested only in the FixedRateBonds, I could add them,
> > but you'll probably have to compile QuantLibXL if you want to take
> > advantage of them before the new release.
> >
> > That said, QuantLibXL's maintainer (Eric Ehlers) has made some
> > structural changes to how QuantLibXL works and I haven't got up to
> > speed with them.
> >
> >
> > Francois Botha
> >
> > On 22 February 2016 at 14:24, Ben Watson
> > <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I asked this a couple of weeks ago. I need to price bonds that
> >> have 7D ex-interest and are quoted in Yield. I see that
> >> qlFixedRateBondHelper does take ExCouponPeriod. However I need to
> >> use this for the yield to price functions.
> >>
> >> I see that FixedRateBond has included exCouponPeriod (Sep 9, 2015
> >> @igitur igitur Add bond test for South African R2048 which
> >> requires Schedule from cu.)
> >>
> >> FixedRateBond bond(settlementDays, 100.0,
> >>                        Schedule(startDate, maturityDate, tenor,
> >>                                 NullCalendar(), Unadjusted,
> >> Unadjusted, DateGeneration::Forward, true,
> >> firstCouponDate),
> >>                        std::vector<Rate>(1, coupon),
> >>                        dc, Unadjusted, 100.0,
> >>                        issueDate, calendar, exCouponPeriod,
> >> calendar
> >>
> >> However this is not in the QuantLibXL version. Is this something
> >> that missed
> >> V1.7.0? If so when would the next release likely to happen. I have
> >> to push on with a project and right now I can't get QuantLib to
> >> price the bonds correctly?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Ben Watson, CEO
> >> Define Analytics
> >> Tel: +61 410 474 984
> >>
> >>
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