The tranche delta is the notional of index protection whose value changes as much as the tranche’s, per unit of tranche notional, when every name’s spread moves together by a small amount, with the base correlations held.
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Example 15.7 (Deltas across the structure)
The deltas of the six tranches of Example 15.4 are 17.3, 7.32, 3.28, 1.77, 0.72 and 0.14 (Figure 15.3): EUR 10 million of equity tranche moves like EUR 173 million of index. Hedging the equity with the mezzanine takes times the notional.