Re: [Quantlib-dev] error in Schedule?

[Chris K. <chr...@ya...>]

Hi Nando,

suppose you have payments defined as "last-day-of-month", with Following convention (so payments can roll to the next month if the last day is not a business day).  How can I generate these?  This gets tricky if you start on a month with a small number of days, e.g. 28.  I don't see how to get them directly - all suggestions welcome.

BTW ... what's wrong with having last-day-of-month + a convention?

Ciao,
Chris





----- Original Message ----
From: Ferdinando Ametrano <na...@am...>
To: Chris Kenyon <chr...@ya...>
Cc: qua...@li...
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 5:33:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Quantlib-dev] error in Schedule?

Hi Chris

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Chris Kenyon <chr...@ya...> wrote:
> in the Schedule class, if you have endOfMonth=true, and you start from an
> end-of-month, then the convention is set (silently) to Preceding
> internally.
> [...]
> This seems like an error - what if you want the convention you specified?
> What is the reason for this?

it's not an error. If you want your dates to be on the end-of-month,
i.e. on the last working day of the given months, specifying Following
of Preceding doesn't make sense anymore. Just as implementation detail
we use Preceding to move from the last calendar day in the month to
the last working day in that same month.

Is there any schedule you would like to obtain and you cannot using
the existing class? If this is the case please let me know and I'll
look into it

ciao -- Nando