earliest relevant date
The earliest date at which data are needed by the helper in order to provide a quote.
latest relevant date
The latest date at which data are needed by the helper in order to provide a quote. It does not necessarily equal the maturity of the underlying instrument.
instrument's maturity date
sets the term structure to be used for pricing
warning Being a pointer and not a shared_ptr, the term
structure is not guaranteed to remain allocated
for the whole life of the rate helper. It is
responsibility of the programmer to ensure that
the pointer remains valid. It is advised that
this method is called only inside the term
structure being bootstrapped, setting the pointer
to this
, i.e., the term structure itself.
Bootstrap helper with date schedule relative to global evaluation date Derived classes must takes care of rebuilding the date schedule when the global evaluation date changes