# All Questions

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### DAX - company's weights

How often company's weights are being changed on DAX? Where can I find historical data of DAX weights?
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### x13 Arima analysis with negative values

I'm running x13 Arima analysis on a US GDP series to get the "trend" component. ...
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### S0602 - whether to report Quantity (C0130) or Par Amount (C0140) for Money Market Funds?

We have several positions in a money market fund (CIC IE43) to report in the S.06.02 QRT, and we receive source data for both Quantity & Par Amount. These are actually identical. Which one ...
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### Unemployment data and bond futures

All other things being equal, why would rising unemployment data lead to (a trend) of increasing bond futures? Is the line of thinking that bond futures prices have the same relationship with ...
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### Papers on temporary price impact

Can anyone recommend papers that model how long temporary price impact last when you buy / sell a trade? This would fall under the TCA realm (Trade Cost Analysis). Thank you.
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### Calculating the CVA of a Forward Contract

I am having trouble calculating the CVA of a forward contract. The question is presented below Question: There exists a long forwards position underlying on gold with 2 years remaining. The ...
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### How to apply the CAPM to 6 stocks from different markets?

I would like to apply the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) for selecting proportions of 6 different stocks. In introductory books, the CAPM model assumes that there is one market index (e.g. the S&...
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### Monte Carlo and PDE results are different for a Call Option!

Okay so this might be a fairly trivial question but I'm having an issue with valuing a call option using both a Monte Carlo method and a PDE method. When I started I first used the parameters: Spot =...
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### How does financial institutions value European options in practice?

I am a little bit confused, or uninformed more truthfully, regarding how option pricing (Europeans only in this case) are handled in real life. Up to now I have acquired some theoretical knowledge of ...
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### Block bootstrap to synthesize asset prices

I have a few basic questions on block bootstrapping on a financial time series ('TS'). Assuming my trade universe consists of 10 stocks, I would like to create a set of synthetic prices for all 10 ...
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### Is it possible to defend a Computer Science master thesis by writing a project about quantitative finance?

What are features and examples of computational finance (financial computing) problems (for thesis project in Master in Computer Science)? Is it possible to defend Computer Science master thesis by ...
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### How was money made from bond yield convergence?

I'm currently reading a book which provides examples of how hedge funds employed a global macro trading strategy in the past to generate significant returns. Once such example is the convergence of ...
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### How to compute 30/60/90-day Implied Volatility?

I want to calculate the 30/60/90/180 day 100% moneyness implied volatility for a stock. I think I know how to do it but would like to share my thought processes with the group to verify I'm on the ...
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