# All Questions

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### Replication of the portfolio in single step binomial model

I would be grateful if anyone would comment how to construct this: Assume $S_{i}^k$ is a stock price at time level $i$ and at price level $k$. Assume option is written on $S$ with a a payoff ...
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### US options market/microstruture research

Can someone point out where to find up to date market/microstruture research in the options market?
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### rollapply with Arima model: testing for stability of coefficients

I am trying to fit an arima model on a rolling window using rollapply.My aim is to plot a graph of the evolution of the coefficient, plot the error and the standard deviation. well i encountered the ...
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### Questions on Brownian Motion

Hi all I'm preparing for my final exam in a few days on Stochastic Processes and was wondering how can if I have properly calculated thee following probabilities: (Let $W_1$ be a standard BM in ...
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### Monte Carlo simulation returns not normal distributed

I am generating 100,000 paths of SPX out to 1 year using Euler discretization. I look at how S is distributed for 100,000 paths at the 1 year point and I find it is lognormally distributed. I look at ...
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### Is it possible to offer promoters of a public company to acquire only their stake?

I am preparing a project report and I am interested in suggesting to buy the promoter stake (34%) in a public company. Will I get into trouble with the Securities Board (like SEC) if I do that instead ...
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### Symbols for options on gold futures

I have a historical data set containing only options on gold futures. If I print out a unique list of option symbols I get: ...
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### Why normalize only data for CDSs for PCA?

I'm reading a Credit Suisse Research Report on PCA. The report says that to preprocess the data, you should "Centre data (and normalize when considering CDS data)." Why would you only normalize ...
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### Getting Into Quant Field without Phd or Masters [on hold]

I was wondering it is possible to get into a quant role without a masters or a PhD. And if so, what are the steps to do so? The only resources I've really been able to find speaking to this on ...
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### How to get positions of your portfolio from Interactive Brokers with python ibPy?

I am using ibpy to get the positions of my portfolio. I understand that I can do: ...
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### Is a stationary process necessarily mean-reverting?

Intuitively, a stationary stochastic process needs to be mean-reverting. This should follow immediately from the definition of stationarity: the mean of the process needs to be constant over time, so ...
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### excel yearfrac 30u/360 across feb month end

Why are both of these formulas returning 1? One of them should be 3. =YEARFRAC(DATE(2015,2,27),DATE(2015,2,28),0)*360 =YEARFRAC(DATE(2015,2,28),DATE(2015,3,1),0)*360 Based on every description of ...
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### Method for finding a arbitrage opportunity when market price of call is incorrect

The solution of the Black-scholes equation is the price of a European call. And the option price assumes the underlying stock is a geometric Brownian motion with volatility $\sigma_{1}>0$. ...
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### Implied volatility from American options using python

I am currently trying to construct volatility surface from american option prices (using Cox-Ross-Rubinstein tree) in Python 2.7. Below you can find the code I came up with. Any corrections would be ...
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### Reference for drawdown, look ahead bias and survivorship bias

I'm writing a PhD thesis and I am using terminology such as maximum drawdown, maximum drawdown duration, lookahead bias, and survivorship bias. Although I understand what these are, and they are ...
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### Calculating Asset Returns

The question pertains to a simple phenomenon. There is gold futures listed on Exchange A and Exchange B. Exchange A and Exchange B overlap times with A and B starting 8 hours later and A and B ...
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### Why does SOR post the order to the primary market if it cannot find best price to execute?

If a Smart Order Router cannot find the best price for an order to execute, it would post this order to the primary market. I think this is because the primary market has more liquid and more active ...
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### autocorrelation at milli- or nanosecond timescales [closed]

the efficient market hypothesis states that new information is processed within an infinitesimal time interval, so that all prices (almost) instantly adjust to an "optimal" price. Therefore it is not ...
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### Quick way to extrapolate call price as function of strike

Let's say I know the price of a call for two different values of strike. Is there a quick way to guess the price for another value of strike ? Actually, I know that C(100)=15 and C(90)=20 and I have ...
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### Compute the (Net) Present Value

Let's have a project where we invest 1000 at the beginning of year 1 and 1000 at the beginning of year 2. At the end of year 2 the income is 2200 and the project is closed. Person A discounted with ...
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### Calculate minimum IV increase to offset theta

How would one calculate the minimum implied volatility increase necessary to offset theta decay? IV is typically a percentage, while theta is a dollar value. In theory I think I could look at what ...