Price of a Discounted Security

The price of a discounted 1 year bond is returned in this example.

priceyieldEx1


import com.imsl.finance.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;

public class priceyieldEx1 {

    static final DateFormat dateFormat
            = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, Locale.US);

    static private GregorianCalendar parse(String s)
            throws ParseException {
        GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
        cal.setTime(dateFormat.parse(s));
        return cal;
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) throws ParseException {
        GregorianCalendar settlement = parse("7/1/85");
        GregorianCalendar maturity = parse("7/1/95");
        double yield = 0.010055244588347783;
        double redemption = 105.;
        DayCountBasis dcb = DayCountBasis.BasisNASD;
        double priceyield = Bond.priceyield(settlement, maturity,
                yield, redemption, dcb);
        System.out.println("The price of the discounted bond is "
                + priceyield);
    }
}

Output

The price of the discounted bond is 95.40663
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