[R-SIG-Finance] Easiest way to create a schedule of quarterly LIBOR dates in RQuantLib

[Keith S Weintraub]

Brian,
I must have missed your reply to my question.

Sorry I wasn't more specific. I am very familiar with LIBOR swaps and other derivative contracts. Despite the fact that I wasn't very informative in the description of my question. I have built this type of code in C, and C++ in the past. I would like to avoid doing so again.

What I would like to know is what is the best way to generate a date schedule, as you have mentioned in your reply to my original post,  for a standard 3-month LIBOR interest rate swap.

A nice turnkey function where I can change the length of the swap (with a potential stub) and also switch between 1-month, 3-month, 6-month and 1-year LIBOR would be great. I assume holiday calendars would be part of the solution.

Additional functionality for settlement dates would be a bonus.

If it's doable in RQuantLib great. If there is another package with that functionality that's fine.

I have looked at the RQuantLib docs and probably have mis-understood the functionality therein.

Pointers, code, etc are welcome. 

Thanks so much for your help and time,
All the best,
KW



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You didn't say you were looking for LIBOR *swaps*.  You also didn't say 
what tenor you were looking for.

LIBOR is quoted daily in overnight, 3-month, 6 month, and 1-year tenors 
(at least, there may be more).

There are many, many derivative and loan contracts and OTC products 
marked to LIBOR or valued from it, so you need to be much more specific.

If you want cash flow payable dates for an ISDA standard 3-month LIBOR 
interest rate swap, you need to say that, specifically (and what you're 
swapping against, of course).  If you want something else, then perhaps 
you need to sort out your terminology so that you can be specific.

Regards,

Brian

On 08/20/2014 07:39 AM, Keith S Weintraub wrote:
> It's a convention for date schedules for interest rate swaps.
> 
> I don't remember all the details but it takes into account holidays and weekends. I think it uses a "modified following" business convention.
> 
> Payments are made using Actual/360 day counts.
> 
> My preference would be to have a function that takes a start-date/end-date and just generate the schedule.
> 
> I am not sure if the definitions are in the ISDA docs or http://www.bba.org.uk/ or somewhere else.
> 
> Thanks,
> KW
> 
> 
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> 
> On Aug 19, 2014, at 7:14 PM, Ilya Kipnis <ilya.kipnis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Keith,
>> 
>> I'm not particularly familiar with Libor schedules. Do they follow a
>> particular pattern/schedule/etc.?
>> 
>> -Ilya
>> 
>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Keith S Weintraub <kw1958 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>> 
>>> I want to create a schedule for quarterly (or other frequency) LIBOR dates. I assume it can be done in RQuantLib.
>>> 
>>> Note that I have read the "calendar" entry in the docs but I didn't see an EASY way to do what I want.
>>> 
>>> The functionality seems to be there but I would like to know the best practice for doing so.
>>> 
>>> A pointer to an example would be wonderful.
>>> 
>>> Thanks so much for your time,
>>> Best,
>>> KW



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