Waterfall Forensics.

Tie-out heatmap

Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities 2006-AR18 Trust

Every comparison the backtest ever made, on one screen: one column per distribution date, one row per class, colored by the worst absolute delta across interest, principal, and ending balance. The near-uniform field is the point. The few cells that broke a dollar are listed below, worst first.

2

periods replayed

89.5%

of 114 points within one dollar

12

points off by more than a dollar

I-A-1I-A-2I-A-RI-B-1I-B-2I-B-3I-B-4I-B-5I-B-6I-A-IOI-B-1-IOI-B-2-IOII-A-1II-A-2II-B-1II-B-2II-B-3II-B-4II-B-5II-B-6II-A-IOII-B-1-IOII-B-2-IO
exact to the centwithin a pennywithin a dollarover a dollarno comparisonhover any cell for its worst delta

The exception queue

12 of 114 comparisons sit more than a dollar from the trustee's figure. This is the entire list. Of the rest, 70 matched to the exact cent and 27 differed by cents, rounding-sized and never compounding.

DateClassFigureComputedReportedΔ
2006-11-27I-A-Rinterest0.511,382.911382.40
2006-11-27I-B-1-IOinterest2,813.862,837.0323.17
2006-11-27I-B-1interest75,439.0275,415.8623.16
2006-11-27I-B-2-IOinterest888.44895.767.32
2006-11-27I-B-2interest23,818.9323,811.627.31
2006-12-26I-B-1interest76,005.4276,003.192.23
2006-12-26I-B-1-IOinterest2,834.422,836.622.20
2006-12-26II-B-1-IOinterest1,825.191,827.272.08
2006-12-26II-B-1interest44,166.4944,164.422.07
2006-11-27II-B-1interest44,059.5844,057.701.88
2006-11-27II-B-1-IOinterest1,825.551,827.431.88
2006-12-26I-A-1interest3,606,058.673,606,057.561.11

state rolls forward on computed values only — reported figures are never fed back in, so an engine error would compound rather than hide