# All Questions

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### Mathematical Derivation of Residual Risk

I understand the difference between Excess, Residual and Active Returns. I also understand what Active Risk; defined as: $\sigma_{r_P-r_B}$ (i.e. standard deviation of the difference in returns ...
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### Volatility for time periods with little data

When I want the monthly volatility of stock and I only have data for about one month and I do calculation like this: ...
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### NPV of two annuities

For exam preparation we are given some past papers, however there are no solutions and I would like to know if my logic is correct for the following question: Assume you are 25 years old. An ...
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### Problem with determining weights in tangency portfolio (2 risky assets)

I use the following well known formula in order to determine the weight of asset i in the tangency portfolio (in the case of two risky assets): ...
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### What is the rationale behind using SV models with 2 distinct volatility processes?

In the Double Heston model, there are 2 distinct volatility processes. The SDEs read \begin{align} & ...
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### How do I build a cross currency basis swap pricer using implied levels generated from fx forwards?

I'm building a strategy where I would take positions depending on whether the basis swap looks rich or cheap relative to the forwards, inside 1yr maturity. Depending on liquidity the market in ...
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### How to apply Kelly criterion to a portfolio made by a stock plus a option?

First of all, assuming a Gaussian, Markowitz, well behaved world. Extensions for non-well behaved world will be welcomed. I know that by a portfolio made by only by one stock (and a risk free bond) I ...
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### Simulate drifted geometric brownian motion under new measure

I have a very fundamental question regarding simulation of DRIFTED geometric brownian motion. We have the standard Blackos Scholes model: $dS(t)=r S(t)dt+\sigma S(t) dW^{\mathbb{P}}(t)$, where ...
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### Yahoo Finance data scraper [duplicate]

I am building a small financial web application and I need a data source for price (Adj. Close) and volume data. I have written a scraper to scrape equity data for yahoo finance and can pass this to ...
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### Polynomial interpolation of corrected lognormal distribution

Can anyone provide a formula for a polynomial interpolation of the corrected lognormal distribution used to model returns traditionally resulting from the wrong Brownian motion generated model? ...
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### Calculating the global minimum variance portfolio in R?

I am attempting to use the globalMin.portfolio command to calculate the global minimum variance portfolio in RStudio. My code is as follows (note that several libraries have been included which may ...
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### How to compute the yield on the Ultra-Bond Treasury Futures

I am trying to compute the yield on the Ultra-Bond Treasury Futures which is roughly 172.2187. Heres the description of the contract: U.S. Treasury bonds with remaining term to maturity of not ...
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### Minimum Variance Portfolio problem [on hold]

Minimum Variance Portfolio Suppose there are N stocks in the investmentable universe and we have a fully invested portfolio investing 100% of the capital. The Covariance matrix is denoted as ∑. We ...
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### Copulas and default probability

Assume a basket of 3 credits, each with some unconditional default probability ${q_i}(t) = \Pr [{\tau _i} \le t]$. Consider the joint CDF $H$ of the default times is given by \$H(t,t,t) = \Pr [{\tau ...
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### What is a definition of “Benchmark”?

The word "benchmark" is often used in Finance, but in a rather fuzzy manner, there for a rough idea of what it is, and how it is 'defined'. Can someone provide a rigorous and precise definition of ...
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### Physical interpretation of variance in returns in a portfolio design

I have a downloaded the log-returns at successive times of 98 stocks from S&P index over 753 days. I calculated the total daily return according to the formula 1 below, where ...