Caplet stripping is the calibration of a term structure of caplet volatilities that reprices every quoted cap of a strike: with caps of increasing maturity, the caplets between two consecutive maturities are given one volatility, solved so that the longer cap reprices, the shorter caplets’ volatilities held.
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Example 4.6 (A euro cap strip)
Flat normal volatilities of caps struck at 3% on six-month Euribor of 58, 66, 72, 75, 76, 75 and 72 basis points at one, two, three, four, five, seven and ten years (illustrative; the first caplet, already fixed, excluded) strip into caplet volatilities of 58.0, 66.6, 75.7, 78.9, 78.0, 73.7 and 67.9 basis points on the successive intervals (Figure 4.2). Where flat volatilities rise, the new caplets must be above the flat level to lift the average; the hump of the caplet curve is higher and earlier than that of the flat curve.