Shares of stock traded in a stock market. Equities represent the residual claim or interest of the most junior class of investors in assets, after all liabilities are paid.
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Does the debt load affect the volatility of equity?
Does the debt load of a company have an impact on the stock price of a company and its volatility? Also, how does the market react to the announcement of a company issuing bonds?
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How to simulate stock prices with a Geometric Brownian Motion?
I want to simulate stock price paths with different stochastic processes. I started with the famous geometric brownian motion. I simulated the values with the following formula:
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Indexes/stocks with flat implied volatilities
After the 1987 crash, the S&P500 index implied volatility changed from nearly flat to negatively sloped. According to Rubinstein the Black-Scholes model was not so wrong when applied to the ...
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SP500 sector weights - how do they change?
The weights of the nine S&P equity sector indexes vary over time. One can find measures of them in a number of different formats:
S&P 500 Sector SPDRs - historical sector weights
Here's ...
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How do earnings estimates respond to changes in underlying fundamentals and economic conditions?
Sell-side analysts' earnings estimates for individual companies, typically reported by I/B/E/S, are a key ingredient to many quantitative models. However, revisions to analyst estimates tend to lag ...
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What is the relative performance of hard-to-borrow securities?
Is there any research on the equity return performance of hard-to-borrow securities?
Many shops will simply screen for hard-to-borrow and eliminate these names from their short book.
Anecdotally, ...
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Should I use currency hedged or unhedged returns for a global equity allocation model?
I am building a global tactical equity allocation model. The model will help determine an optimal allocation amongst a number of major developed and emerging stock markets (represented for my purposes ...
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Cointegration trading: Ignoring pairs that aren't economically related
Cointegration trading question
What's the state of the art when it comes to choosing proper subsets of stocks/assets where cointegrating relationships aren't ignored as (likely to be) spurious?
For ...
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Why does the adjusted closing price take into account dividends?
I'm trying to get an intuition as to why the adjusted closing price includes a dividend adjustment:
\begin{equation}
1 - \frac{dividend}{close}
\end{equation}
I understand why the adjusted closing ...
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Can money technically flow in and out of stocks or asset classes?
For every buyer, there is a seller. Money can't 'flow' in and out of a stock, only the price changes. Is this applicable in the context of asset classes, for example, money market funds versus stocks? ...
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Science behind options pricing into Earnings event
I am wondering about studies regarding the uncanny options pricing into public company's earnings reports.
The phenomenon being that the price of a straddle before earnings costs near exactly the ...
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How to calculate probability of touching a take-profit without touching a stop-loss?
How to calculate probability of touching a take-profit without touching a stop-loss (no-dividend stock, infinite time)?
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Can Central Index Keys (CIKs) issued by the SEC be reassigned?
Suppose company A has CIK 0000012345 and ceases to exist. At some later time, company B registers with the SEC to submit filings.
Is it possible that company B will be assigned the same CIK ...
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How to normalize different instruments by volatility?
I'm trying to think on a way to normalize stocks to be on the same scale depending on their recent volatility.
Is there some theoretical reference on the subject or and experience you can share?
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Basket equity swap
What are the advantages of buying basket equity swaps derivative compared to single equity swap? Will correlation play a role in basket equity swap?
Thanks in advance
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Individual/casual investors and the bias towards blue-chip stocks?
There's quite a bit of research (example, [1]) teasing out the fact that home/casual/individual investors prefer stocks with large positive skewness. It surprised me, as I was reading a bunch of these ...
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Commerical delayed stock quote feed that is redistributable?
I'm looking for a commercial delayed quote feed that will allow us to distribute delayed US stock market quotes to the public (ie. that will allow us to display US delayed quotes on the Internet). We ...
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Why should there be an equity risk premium?
After years of mathematical finance I am still not satisfied with the idea of a risk premium in the case of stocks.
I agree that (often) there is a premium for long dated bonds, illiquid bonds or ...
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What exactly is an ISO order?
I have been looking this up and I feel like I keep running into different definitions. My understanding is that an ISO order is one which will get filled with the displayed quantity in a particular ...
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Leveraged and inverse leveraged ETFs - what is the exact defintion?
I just had a quick look at the daily returns for a few pairs of leveraged ETFs - it appears that the percent daily returns do not match perfectly. For instance, looking at FAS/FAZ, the returns for the ...
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1answer
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OTC Equity Options' Dynamics
This only applies to options that do not have marketable equivalents since margin can be marked to them.
I've never been able to find this on my goog.
How is margin typically calculated for OTC ...
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Calculating Geometric mean
I need to annualize daily returns for about 120 firms for over a period of 10 years. I chose to calculate the geometric return because 1) it is the actual return 2) to avoid the asymmetric effect of ...
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1answer
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Historical data on short rates
I would like to backtest a short-equity strategy. I'm looking for historical data on the availability of shares and cost to short certain stocks. Does anyone know of such data being available ...
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1answer
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In a covered call strategy, should I hold the call or sell/roll if the delta becomes too small?
I am tweaking a covered call algorithm. The short leg consists of out of the money call options. The goal is to collect the tim premium, but an equally favorable circumstance is when the call ...
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What is an appropriate hedge ratio for hedging a credit instrument with equity of the same issuer?
Given a bond and a stock issued by the same issuer, what is the appropriate ratio of bond-to-stock one should hold in order to minimize the specific risk to that issuer? Equivalently, what is the ...
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Can a higher P/E ratio be beneficial under certain circumstances? [closed]
I am new to investing. I understand that the P/E ratio along with other data can be used to determine whether a stock may or may not be undervalued.
Are there situations where a HIGH P/E is actually ...
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Quick way to check what 'tape' a stock belongs to?
For the SIP feeds, there is the CTA and the UTP plan and they cover Tapes A,B and Tape C respectively. Is there an easy way to check on google what tape a stock would belong to? Particularly when it ...
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120 views
transaction size and liquidity in simulation of US stocks
i am developing a simulation trading in US stocks.
i have 1 transaction a day per stock, assumed for simplicity to be executed at the daily closing price.
in order to determine a reasonable maximal ...
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1answer
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How to deal with different amount of td's in computing Sharpe Ratio
In calculating the Sharpe Ratio, should I take into account the days were I have 0 return due to non-trading day? Another user posted a similar question but this was related to trading days with no ...
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1answer
127 views
Regression giving the return on a stock
I have this regression equation:
$$
R_{stock} = 3,28\% + 1,65*R_{market}
$$
Where $R_{stock}$ is the expected return on a stock and $R_{market}$ being the market risk premium.
I have a one-year ...
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1answer
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Pricing forward contract on a stock
Please tell me where I've gone wrong (if I did in fact make a mistake). I'm pricing a long forward on a stock. The usual setup applies:
This has payoff $S(T) - K$ at time $T$.
We are at $t$ now.
...
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1answer
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equity linked notes (bull/bear equity performance bonds)
I have to price what my lecturer calls "Bull and Bear Equity Performance Bonds". Basically there's dates $t_i \in [0,T]$, where $t_i - t_{i-1}$ is the same for all choice of $i$. On each date the bull ...
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Modelling long run relationship between dividend and earnings
I am working on a paper where I have to model the long run relationship between earnings and dividends. I have downloaded the raw data from shillers website. I have converted the series to ...
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1answer
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How to calculate equally weighted market portfolio
There's two studies that test the same thing in different markets (i.e. they apply the identical methodology). They state:
1) "$R_{mt}$ is the equally weighted average stock return in the dual-listed ...
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Hobbyist Quants [closed]
I'm interested in investing some money in the stock market, and I have the math background that will make following the math used in quantitative finance possible (with some work). What are the ...
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How do I calculate weighted mean with negative weights?
I need to display in my system the amount of stocks that I own and the average price it took me to buy them. I am having a problem doing that when I include the selling.
Lets say I bought 4 stocks ...
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1answer
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How to adjust local currency returns to US$/EUR return?
Iam doing research on return characteristics. As of today the scope of the research has changed from a local investor point of view to an international investor point of view. This basically means ...
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End of Day Market Data (One Minute Interval) for Commercial Purpose [closed]
I am developing a website and looking to use end-of-day data to calculate technical indicators and display them on it.
Please provide any financial data vendor that provides above mentioned data for ...
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Getting the actual distribution of a stock price at time T using implied volatility [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to derive the implied probability distribution from B-S volatilities?
Let's assume a stock price S, with volatility $\sigma$ constant, no dividend, and risk free ...
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Different stocks with the same stock code [closed]
Is it possible to have different stocks with the same stock code on different stock exchanges.
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Methods for distributing cash into allocation
Are there any methods/techniques that cover distributing cash into a specific percent of a portfolio asset class while gaining the best average price?
As a simple example, a portfolio starts with ...
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Calculating Earnings Per Stock from Financial Statements [closed]
Given the Earnings Per Share formula:
EPS = Profit – preference share dividends / weighted average of ordinary stocks outstanding
How does one calculate the ...
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get live data from national stock exchange [closed]
http://billing.finance.yahoo.com/realtime_quotes/signup?.src=quote&.refer=quote
Can i get real time data(from NSE india) using Yahoo finance API after subscribing to their service ?
