Task: Build the .1 ATM and surface vol ladders
Table of Contents
This page documents a task in the Build the sensitivity ladders story. It captures the goal, current status, acceptance, and any notes or results.
1. Goal
A party runs a .1 ATM vol ladder and a .1 surface vol ladder over its FX book, bucketed by currency pair and expiry.
2. Status
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| State | BACKLOG |
| Parent story | Build the sensitivity ladders |
| Now | Not yet started. |
| Waiting on | - Support volatility surfaces for the FX vol quotes. |
| Next | Start when the market data lands. |
| Last touched | 2026-11-03 |
3. Acceptance
- Both ladders bind sensitivity documents that differ only in ShiftStrikes, and the difference is visible in the stored configuration.
- The shift size of each states its type and its unit, so the .1 is not left to the reader.
- The ATM ladder produces one row per currency pair and expiry; the surface ladder one per pair, expiry and strike.
- The ladder runs only where the run holds the vol surface for that pair, and a pair with no surface produces no row rather than a zero.
- A test compares the two ladders on a book with a smile and proves they differ.
4. Plan
(Implementation strategy. Written when work starts; key decisions
are distilled into the parent story's * Decisions at close, but the
plan itself stays — it is the historical record of what we did.)
5. Measurements
Every number this task claims about a tree, with the command that produced it
and the commit it was measured at. A number without both is not a measurement,
because a clean-up record describes a tree and trunk moves under a branch: a
consumer count, a gate's component count and a suite's size all change with no
code changing, and the reader of a bare number cannot tell which tree it came
from. Where the raw output matters, put it in an evidence/ file beside the
task and name that file in the Command column.
| What | Value | Command | Commit |
|---|---|---|---|
6. Notes
7. Test Scenarios
Manual QA scenarios (scaffolded via compass add test_scenario)
that verify this task. Link
new ones here as they're created; the scenario doc itself links back
via its "Verifies task" field.
| Scenario | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
8. PRs
| PR | Title |
|---|---|
9. Review
| Comment summary | File | Decision | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
10. Result
11. See also
- Greek ladder reports — the design this task builds.
- Support volatility surfaces — the FX vol market data this ladder waits on.