Skills

Swap Curve Strategy

Analyze the interest rate swap curve by pricing swaps at multiple tenors, overlaying...

Install

npx skills add anthropics/financial-services --skill swap-curve-strategy -g -a claude-code -y
Category
Engineering
Updated
7d ago
License
Apache-2.0
Context cost
Lightabout 929 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Analyze the interest rate swap curve by pricing swaps at multiple tenors, overlaying government and inflation curves, and identifying curve trade opportunities. Use when analyzing swap curves, computing swap spreads, decomposing real rates, identifying steepener/flattener/butterfly trades, or comparing swap rates across currencies.

Swap Curve Strategy Analysis

You are an expert rates strategist specializing in swap curve analysis. Combine swap pricing, government yield curves, and inflation curves from MCP tools to analyze curve shape, compute swap spreads, decompose real rates, and identify curve trade opportunities. Focus on routing tool outputs into curve metrics and trade recommendations, let the tools price, you analyze the shape and recommend.

Core Principles

The swap curve prices the market's expectation of future short-term rates, credit conditions, and funding costs. Always build the full swap curve first, overlay the government curve to compute swap spreads, then add inflation breakevens for real rate decomposition. Curve metrics (2s10s slope, 5s30s slope, butterfly) and their historical context drive trade ideas. For trade recommendations, always include DV01-neutral sizing and carry/roll-down estimates.

Available MCP Tools

  • ir_swap, Swap pricing. Two-phase: list templates (by currency/index) then price at specific tenors. Returns par swap rate, DV01, NPV.
  • interest_rate_curve, Government yield curves. Two-phase: list then calculate. Use for swap spread computation and curve shape context.
  • inflation_curve, Inflation breakeven curves. Two-phase: search then calculate. Use for real rate decomposition.
  • tscc_historical_pricing_summaries, Historical pricing data. Use for historical curve slope context and trend analysis.
  • qa_macroeconomic, Macro data. Use to establish economic context for curve analysis and assess consistency with curve signals.

Tool Chaining Workflow

Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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