Message-ID: <9288650.1075856588059.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 04:48:00 -0800 (PST) From: stinson.gibner@enron.com To: vince.kaminski@enron.com Subject: Re: P+ spread options Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Stinson Gibner X-To: Vince J Kaminski X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Vincent_Kaminski_Jun2001_5\Notes Folders\C:\Technote\Mail\Projects X-Origin: Kaminski-V X-FileName: vkamins.nsf FYI ---------------------- Forwarded by Stinson Gibner/HOU/ECT on 01/29/2001 12:48 PM --------------------------- From: Jeffrey A Shankman on 01/29/2001 12:38 PM To: Stinson Gibner/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: John L Nowlan/HOU/ECT@ECT, Don Schroeder/HOU/ECT@ECT Subject: Re: P+ spread options Let's get together on this in the next couple of days. Thanks. Jeff Stinson Gibner 01/29/2001 12:10 PM To: Jeffrey A Shankman/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Vince J Kaminski/HOU/ECT@ECT Subject: P+ spread options Jeff, We are reviewing the P+ spread option book. One item of note is that the correlations used to book the spread options have dropped significantly from what was being used a year ago (see charts below). I also remember that John Mee was using even higher correlations when he ran this book. In fact he wanted to book options with a correlation of 1.0, but our model would not allow it, so he was using 0.999. We are currently calculating historical correlations for you as well. If you want, Vince and I can review this with you at the end of the day. Just let me know what time would be convenient. --Stinson x34748