11.  Volbroker Pricer

11.1

The TFS-ICAP Volbroker application has it's own built in proprietary 'Pricer'. This Pricer can be accessed from several places in the system.
Press (ALT + P) or left click on Start button, bottom left of the screen, click on 'Programs' then click on 'Pricer'.
The 'Pricer' can also be accessed by double left clicking on the Tenor field (i.e. 1W) in the ATM Currency pair tile, from the trade blotter and from the Unconfirmed Deals dialog that appears after a trade occurs.

The Volbroker Pricer benefits from live rate feeds for Spot, Swap and Deposit rates for all supported currencies.

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11.2

This will launch the 'Pricer'.

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11.3

The following strategies can be priced.

Standard (Call/Put)

Forward

Straddle

Strangle

Spread

Risk Reversal

Digital

OTM Knockout

OTM Knockin

ITM Knockout

ITM Knockin

Double Knockout

Double Knockin

One Touch

No Touch

Double One Touch

Double No Touch

European Knockout

European Knockin

Digital with OTM Knockout

Digital with ITM Knockout

Knockout One Touch

VN Butterfly

11.4

To select the strategy to be priced left click on the small gray box to the right of the 'Product' line.

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11.5

Left click on desired strategy then click on 'OK'.

Fig 45

11.6

Over type desired currency pair.

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11.7

To select the expiry date left click on the small gray box to the right of the 'tenor' line.

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11.8

Left click on desired tenor then click on 'OK'. (or select ODD DATE and over type date in expiry field ddmmmyy)

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11.9

Over type amount (per leg).

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11.10

Select either 'Strike' or 'Delta' and over type desired rate (fig 50 shows 25 delta).

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11.11

Input the Volatility rates. (In this case Volatilty for both the Put and the Call values separated by colon)

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11.12

The Volatilty will then be shown, in this case, as a differential.

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11.13

The Pricing of the Option is now complete.

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