# zeroprice

Price zero-coupon instruments given yield

## Syntax

``Price = zeroprice(Yield,Settle,Maturity)``
``Price = zeroprice(___,Period,Basis,EndMonthRule)``

## Description

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````Price = zeroprice(Yield,Settle,Maturity)` prices zero-coupon instruments given a yield. `zeroprice` calculates the prices for a portfolio of general short and long-term zero-coupon instruments given the yield of reference bonds. In other words, if the zero-coupon computed with this yield is used to discount the reference bond, the value of that reference bond is equal to its price.```

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````Price = zeroprice(___,Period,Basis,EndMonthRule)` adds optional arguments for `Period`, `Basis`, and `EndMonthRule`.```

## Examples

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This example shows how to compute the price of a short-term zero-coupon instrument.

```Settle = '24-Jun-1993'; Maturity = '1-Nov-1993'; Period = 2; Basis = 0; Yield = 0.04; Price = zeroprice(Yield, Settle, Maturity, Period, Basis)```
```Price = 98.6066 ```

This example shows how to compute the prices of a portfolio of two zero-coupon instruments, one short-term, and the other long-term.

```Settle = '24-Jun-1993'; Maturity = ['01-Nov-1993'; '15-Jan-2024']; Basis = [0; 1]; Yield = [0.04; 0.1]; Price = zeroprice(Yield, Settle, Maturity, [], Basis)```
```Price = 2×1 98.6066 5.0697 ```

## Input Arguments

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Reference bond yield, specified as a scalar or a `NZERO`-by-`1` vector.

Data Types: `double`

Settlement date, specified as a `NZERO`-by-`1` vector of serial date numbers.

Data Types: `double`

Maturity date, specified as a `NZERO`-by-`1` vector of serial date numbers.

Data Types: `double`

(Optional) Number of coupons in one year, specified as a positive integer for the values `1,2,4,6,12` in a `NZERO`-by-`1` vector.

Data Types: `double`

(Optional) Day-count basis of the bond, specified as a positive integer using a `NZERO`-by-`1` vector.

• 0 = actual/actual

• 1 = 30/360 (SIA)

• 2 = actual/360

• 3 = actual/365

• 4 = 30/360 (PSA)

• 5 = 30/360 (ISDA)

• 6 = 30/360 (European)

• 7 = actual/365 (Japanese)

• 8 = actual/actual (ICMA)

• 9 = actual/360 (ICMA)

• 10 = actual/365 (ICMA)

• 11 = 30/360E (ICMA)

• 12 = actual/365 (ISDA)

• 13 = BUS/252

Data Types: `double`

(Optional) End-of-month rule flag, specified as a nonnegative integer with a value of `0` or `1` using a `NZERO`-by-`1` vector. This rule applies only when `Maturity` is an end-of-month date for a month having 30 or fewer days.

• `0` = Ignore rule, meaning that a bond coupon payment date is always the same numerical day of the month.

• `1` = Set rule on, meaning that a bond coupon payment date is always the last actual day of the month.

Data Types: `double`

## Output Arguments

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Price for each zero-coupon instrument (per \$100 notional), returned as a column vector.

## Algorithms

To compute the price when `Period` is `1` or `0` for the quasi-coupon periods to redemption, `zeroprice` uses the formula

`$Price=\frac{RV}{1+\left(\frac{DSR}{E}×\frac{Y}{M}\right)}$`

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Quasi-coupon periods are the coupon periods that would exist if the bond were paying interest at a rate other than zero.

When there is more than one quasi-coupon period to the redemption date, `zeroprice` uses the formula

`$Price=\frac{RV}{{\left(1+\frac{Y}{M}\right)}^{Nq-1+\frac{DSC}{E}}}$`

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The elements of the equations are defined as follows.

VariableDefinition

DSC

Number of days from settlement date to next quasi-coupon date as if the security paid periodic interest.

DSR

Number of days from settlement date to the redemption date (call date, put date, and so on).

E

Number of days in quasi-coupon period.

M

Number of quasi-coupon periods per year (standard for the particular security involved).

Nq

Number of quasi-coupon periods between settlement date and redemption date. If this number contains a fractional part, raise it to the next whole number.

Price

Dollar price per \$100 par value.

RV

Redemption value.

Y

Annual yield (decimal) when held to redemption.

## References

[1] Mayle, Jan. Standard Securities Calculation Methods. 3rd Edition, Vol. 1, Securities Industry Association, Inc., New York, 1993, ISBN 1-882936-01-9. Vol. 2, 1994, ISBN 1-882936-02-7.

## Version History

Introduced before R2006a