Posted by
Marco Craveiro on
Jan 06, 2017; 10:00am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Building-a-USD-discount-curve-using-public-market-data-tp17963.html
Hi Quantlib-Users,
I am performing a simple exercise to help me understand Quantlib
better: to price Netflix options [1] using only publicly available
market data, as a "regular consumer/individual" would. My first step
is to build a yield curve, followed by a second step working on the
vol surface. I have a few questions which hopefully pertain to this
forum; these questions are as much about methodology as they are about
Quantlib, so apologies in advance if this is not the right place.
I have read a number of articles on bootstrapping and bumping discount
curves using Quantlib (e.g. [1], [2], [3]). The code is very clear.
However, all of these articles seem to be focused on a "commercial"
market - i.e. Interbank/Hedge funds and so forth - since they use
Depos, FRAs and Swaps on the discount curve. Presumably, individuals
do not have access to buy/sell these instruments and as such should
not add them to their discount curves? Or is the availability of the
instruments not relevant for this purpose? Personally, I was going to
use only the instruments available in the Treasury website [3], but
I'd be interested to hear other opinions and any pointers to
articles/mails etc on bootstrapping curves/vol surfaces using only
freely available market data.
Kind regards
--
Marco Craveiro
[1]
https://www.google.com/finance/option_chain?q=NASDAQ:NFLX[2]
http://www.billiontrader.com/post/102[3]
http://gouthamanbalaraman.com/blog/quantlib-term-structure-bootstrap-yield-curve.html[4]
http://www.bnikolic.co.uk/blog/ql-bumping-curve.html[5]
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yieldMD, Domain Driven Consulting
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