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What does it mean to adjust for short-run liquidity in finding risk-free rate of return
Risk-free rate of return should equal the expected long-run growth rate of the economy with an adjustment for short-run liquidity.
What is meant by the last phrase, "adjustment for short-run ...
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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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Square root of time
I am writing about VaR and I am wondering about the following:
We can scale the VaR to different time horizons by using the square root of time, which means, that the volatility is adjusted by square ...
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Logarithmic returns for realized variance?
I am wondering which method makes more sense when computing log returns. I am trying to compute log returns for realized variance, and I have the opening and closing prices for every minute.
Since ...
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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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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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Is Arithmetic Return Bias Basis of Low Vol Anomaly?
An observation in capital markets is that the connection between return and risk (measured as volatility) is not that straightforward (at least not as modern portfolio theory assumes). One interesting ...
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Targeted Return [closed]
I've read this idea in a few Quants interviews and articles. The quants are Dalio and Winton. Their fund mention something along the lines of targeting a % of return or % of drawdown. What do they ...
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local price return and volume relationship
I wanted to see how the stock price and volume relationship is locally.
So I tried ranking both the daily return (at day t) and volume (at day t) base on a 30 day rolling window with historical daily ...
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Valuing Total Return Swaps
In my quest for simulated data, I am trying to generate prices for Total Return Swaps by calculating the NPVs of the fixed and floating leg. My problem: Given the fixed leg, how do I set the spread on ...
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Total Return measurement paradox w/ Adjusted Close Prices
Using total return calculations is critical in developing security selection models.
The standard way to measure total return is to develop a series of price-adjusted data. Investopedia describes the ...
