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2. something that is exchanged. 3. (Banking & Finance) finance Also called: swap option or swaption a contract in which the parties to it exchange liabilities on outstanding debts, often exchanging fixed-interest-rate for floating-rate debts (debt swap), either as a means of managing debt or in trading (swap trading)
Variance swaps Introduction The goal of this paper is to make a reader more familiar with pricing and hedging variance swaps and to propose some practical recommendations for quoting variance swaps (see section Conclusions). We give basic ideas of variance swap pricing and hedging (for detailed discussion see [1]) and apply this analyze to real market data. In the last section we discuss the connection with volatility swaps. A variance swap is a forward contract on annualized variance, the square of the realized volatility. V R =Ï R 2 =252 1 cccccccccccc nâ2 â i=1 nâ1 i k