modelling the fx skew
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Modelling the FX Skew. Dherminder Kainth and Nagulan Saravanamuttu QuaRC, Royal Bank of Scotland. Overview. FX Markets Possible Models and Calibration Variance Swaps Extensions. FX Markets. Market Features Liquid Instruments Importance of Forward Smile. Spot. Spot. Volatility. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Modelling the FX SkewModelling the FX SkewModelling the FX SkewModelling the FX Skew
Dherminder Kainth and Nagulan Dherminder Kainth and Nagulan SaravanamuttuSaravanamuttu
QuaRC, Royal Bank of ScotlandQuaRC, Royal Bank of Scotland
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Overview
o FX Markets
o Possible Models and Calibration
o Variance Swaps
o Extensions
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FX Markets
o Market Features
o Liquid Instruments
o Importance of Forward Smile
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Volatility
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European Implied Volatility Surface
• Implied volatility smile defined in terms of deltas
• Quotes available – Delta-neutral straddle ⇒ Level– Risk Reversal = (25-delta call – 25-delta put) ⇒ Skew– Butterfly = (25-delta call + 25-delta put – 2ATM) ⇒ Kurtosis
• Also get 10-delta quotes
• Can infer five implied volatility points per expiry– ATM– 10 delta call and 10 delta put– 25 delta call and 25 delta put
• Interpolate using, for example, SABR or Gatheral
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Implied Volatility Smiles
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Liquid Barrier Products
• Some price visibility for certain barrier products in leading currency pairs (eg USDJPY, EURUSD)
• Three main types of products with barrier features– Double-No-Touches– Single Barrier Vanillas– One-Touches
• Have analytic Black-Scholes prices (TVs) for these products
• High liquidity for certain combinations of strikes, barriers, TVs
• Barrier products give information on dynamics of implied volatility surface
• Calibrating to the barrier products means we are taking into account the forward implied volatility surface
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Double-No-Touches
• Pays one if barriers not breached through lifetime of product
• Upper and lower barriers determined by TV and U×L=S2
• High liquidity for certain values of TV : 35%, 10%
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Double-No-Touches
• For constant TV, barrier levels are a function of expiry
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Single Barrier Vanilla Payoffs
• Single barrier product which pays off a call or put depending on whether barrier is breached throughout life of product
• Three aspects– Final payoff (Call or Put)– Pay if barrier breached or pay if it is not breached (Knock-in or
Knock-out)– Barrier higher or lower than spot (Up or Down)
• Leads to eight different types of product
• Significant amount of value apportioned to final smile (depending on strike/barrier combination)
• Not as liquid as DNTs
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One-Touches
• Single barrier product which pays one when barrier is breached
• Pay off can be in domestic or foreign currency
• There is some price visibility for one-touches in the leading currency markets
• Not as liquid as DNTs
• Price depends on forward skew
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Replicating Portfolio
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Replicating Portfolio
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One-Touches
• For Normal dynamics with zero interest rates
• Price of One-Touch is probability of breaching barrier
• Static replication of One-Touch with Digitals
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One-Touches
• Log-Normal dynamics
• Barrier is breached at time
• Can still statically replicate One-Touch
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One-Touches
• Introduce skew
• Using same static hedge
• Price of One-Touch depends on skew
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Model Skew
• Model Skew : (Model Price – TV)
• Plotting model skew vs TV gives an indication of effect of model-implied smile dynamics
• Can also consider market-implied skew which eliminates effect of particular market conditions (eg interest rates)
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Possible Models and Calibration
o Local Volatility
o Heston
o Piecewise-Constant Heston
o Stochastic Correlation
o Double-Heston
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Local Volatility
• Local volatility process
• Ito-Tanaka implies
• Dupire’s formula
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Local Volatility Calibration to Europeans
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Local Volatility
• Gives exact calibration to the European volatility surface by construction
• Volatility is deterministic, not stochastic
• implies spot “perfectly correlated” to volatility
• Forward skew is rapidly time-decaying
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Local Volatility Smile Dynamics
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Heston Model
• Heston process
• Five time-homogenous parameters
• Will not go to zero if
• Pseudo-analytic pricing of Europeans
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Heston Characteristic Function
• Pricing of European options
• Fourier inversion
• Characteristic function form
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Heston Smile Dynamics
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Heston Implied Volatility Term-Structure
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Implied Volatility Term Structures
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Piecewise-Constant Heston Model
• Process
• Form of reversion level
• Calibrate reversion level to ATM volatility term-structure
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Piecewise-Constant Heston Characteristic Function
• Characteristic function
• Functions satisfy following ODEs (see Mikhailov and Nogel)
• and independent of
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Piecewise-Constant Heston Calibration to Europeans
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DNT Term Structure
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Stochastic Volatility/Local Volatility
• Possible to combine the effects of stochastic volatility and local volatility
• Usually parameterise the local volatility multiplier, eg Blacher
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Stochastic Risk-Reversals
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Stochastic Correlation Model
• Introduce stochastic correlation explicitly but what process to use?
• Process has to have certain characteristics:– Has to be bound between +1 and -1– Should be mean-reverting
• Jacobi process
• Conditions for not breaching bounds
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Stochastic Correlation Model
• Transform Jacobi process using
• Leads to process for correlation
• Conditions
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Stochastic Correlation Model
• Use the stochastic correlation process with Heston volatility process
• Correlation structure
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Stochastic Correlation Calibration to Europeans and DNTs
Loss Function : 14.303
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Stochastic Correlation Calibration to Europeans and DNTs
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Multi-Scale Volatility Processes
• Market seems to display more than one volatility process in its underlying dynamics
• In particular, two time-scales, one fast and one slow
• Models put forward where there exist multiple time-scales over which volatility reverts
• For example, have volatility mean-revert quickly to a level which itself is slowly mean-reverting (Balland)
• Can also have two independent mean-reverting volatility processes with different reversion rates
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Double-Heston Model
• Double-Heston process
• Correlation structure
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Double-Heston Model
• Stochastic volatility-of-volatility
• Stochastic correlation
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Double-Heston Model
• Pseudo-analytic pricing of Europeans
• Simple extension to Heston characteristic function
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Double-Heston Parameters
• Two distinct volatility processes– One is slow mean-reverting to a high volatility– Other is fast mean-reverting to a low volatility– Critically, correlation parameters are both high in magnitude and
of opposite signs
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Double-Heston Calibration to Europeans and DNTs
Loss Function : 4.309
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Double-Heston Calibration to Europeans and DNTs
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One-Touches
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One-Touches
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Variance Swaps
o Product Definition
o Process Definitions
o Variance Swap Term-Structure
o Model Implied Term-Structures
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Variance Swap Definition
• Quadratic variation
• Variance swap price
• Price process
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Variance Process Definitions
• Define the forward variance
• Define the short variance process
• We already have models for describing– Heston– Double-Heston– Double Mean-Reverting Heston (Buehler)– Black-Scholes
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Variance Swap Term Structure
• Heston form for variance swap term structure
• Double-Heston
• Note the independence of the variance swap term-structure to the correlation and volatility-of-volatility parameters
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Double-Heston Term Structures
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Volatility Swap Term Structure
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Extensions
o Stochastic Interest Rates
o Multi-Heston
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Stochastic Interest Rates
• Long-dated FX products are exposed to interest rate risk
• Need a dual-currency model which preserves smile features of FX vanillas
• Andreasen’s four-factor model– Hull-White process for each short rate– Heston stochastic volatility for FX rate– Short rates uncorrelated to Heston volatility process– Pseudo-analytic pricing of Europeans– Can incorporate Double-Heston process for volatility and
maintain rapid calibration to vanillas
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Multi-Heston Process
• Can always extend Double-Heston to Multi-Heston with any number of uncorrelated Heston processes
• Maintain pseudo-analytic European pricing
• In fact, using three Heston processes does not significantly improve on the Double-Heston fits to Europeans and DNTs
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Summary
• FX markets exhibit certain properties such as stochastic risk-reversals and multiple modes of volatility reversion
• Barrier products show liquidity - especially DNTs - and their prices are linked to the forward smile
• The Double-Heston model captures the features of the market and recovers Europeans and DNTs through calibration
• It also prices One-Touches to within bid/offer spread of SV/LV and exhibits the required flexibility for modelling the variance swap curve
• Advantages are that it is relatively simple model with pseudo-analytic European prices, and barrier products can be priced on a grid
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References
• D. Bates : “Post-’87 Crash Fears in S&P 500 Futures Options”, National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 5894, 1997
• S. Heston : “A Closed-Form Solution for Options with Stochastic Volatility with Applications to Bond and Currency Options”, Review of Financial Studies, 1993
• H. Buehler : “Volatility Markets – Consistent Modelling, Hedging and Practical Implementation”, PhD Thesis, 2006
• M. Joshi : “The Concepts and Practice of Mathematical Finance”, Cambridge, 2003
• J. Andreasen : “Closed Form Pricing of FX Options under Stochastic Rates and Volatility”, ICBI, May 2006
• P. Balland : “Forward Smile”, ICBI, May 2006• S. Mikhailov and U. Nogel : “Heston’s Stochastic Volatility, Model
Implementation, Calibration and Some Extensions”, Wilmott, 2005• A. Chebanier : “Skew Dynamics in FX”, QuantCongress, 2006• P. Carr and L. Wu : “Stochastic Skew in Currency Options”, 2004• P. Hagan, D. Kumar, A. Lesniewski and D. Woodward : “Managing Smile Risk”,
Wilmott, 2002• J. Gatheral : “A Parsimonious Arbitrage-Free Implied Volatility Parameterization
with Application the Valuation of Volatility Derivatives”, Global Derivatives & Risk Management, 2004
• [email protected], [email protected]• www.quarchome.org