Saturday, April 2, 2016

fixed income - How to adjust butterfly 2s5s10s swaps trade for directionality?


I am looking into a 2s5s10s swaps idea using a 50-50 weighting scheme, where it's 2 times the 5 year minus the 2 year and 10 year. However, there is a correlation between the butterfly spread and the slope of the curve (2s10s) and also with the 5 year. I want to adjust the weights of my butterfly to remove the directionality such that I still want the body to have a weight of 2.



Essentially, I think it should be X : 2 : Y but I am having a hard time.



Answer



I think he's saying that if


$$ Fly=b_1(2s-10s) + b_2(5s) + error $$


But $$ Fly= 2s-2(5s)+10s $$


Then doing some algebra ,


$$ (1-b_1)2s -(2-b_2)5s + (1+b_1)10s = error $$


Hence the weights of the fly that give pure noise , un correlated to curve and rate , are as given above. If you want 2 in the middle , you have to rescale.


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