/* -*- mode: c++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */ /* Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Ferdinando Ametrano Copyright (C) 2003 StatPro Italia srl This file is part of QuantLib, a free-software/open-source library for financial quantitative analysts and developers - http://quantlib.org/ QuantLib is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the QuantLib license. You should have received a copy of the license along with this program; if not, please email . The license is also available online at . This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the license for more details. */ /*! \file blackvariancecurve.hpp \brief Black volatility curve modelled as variance curve */ #ifndef quantlib_black_variance_curve_hpp #define quantlib_black_variance_curve_hpp #include #include #include namespace QuantLib { //! Black volatility curve modelled as variance curve /*! This class calculates time-dependent Black volatilities using as input a vector of (ATM) Black volatilities observed in the market. The calculation is performed interpolating on the variance curve. Linear interpolation is used as default; this can be changed by the setInterpolation() method. For strike dependence, see BlackVarianceSurface. \todo check time extrapolation */ class BlackVarianceCurve : public BlackVarianceTermStructure { public: BlackVarianceCurve(const Date& referenceDate, const std::vector& dates, const std::vector& blackVolCurve, const DayCounter& dayCounter, bool forceMonotoneVariance = true); //! \name BlackVolTermStructure interface //@{ DayCounter dayCounter() const { return dayCounter_; } Date maxDate() const; Real minStrike() const; Real maxStrike() const; //@} //! \name Modifiers //@{ template void setInterpolation(const Interpolator& i = Interpolator()) { varianceCurve_ = i.interpolate(times_.begin(), times_.end(), variances_.begin()); varianceCurve_.update(); notifyObservers(); } //@} //! \name Visitability //@{ virtual void accept(AcyclicVisitor&); //@} protected: virtual Real blackVarianceImpl(Time t, Real) const; private: DayCounter dayCounter_; Date maxDate_; std::vector