If I have a portfolio of foreign currencies and I want to know, if left unhedged, what is the VaR how do I go about calculating it?
I have taken the historical closing prices of these currencies and calculated the annualized standard deviation, but got stuck on how to further proceed using the weightings of each currency in the portfolio. Does anyone know? Thanks.
You need not only the standard deviations (of prices, I presume) for each currency, you need the correlations (of prices) for each pair of currencies. Then,
Thanks a lot Bill! Its been a while, hope you are doing ok and staying safe.
You’re quite welcome.
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oh god…glad to hear you are fine now. My friend once experienced unexplainable pain in their arms too, and he thinks he got stung by something. I dunno, might that ring a bell?
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