# All Questions

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### Source for real-time tick data (stock price, etc.) updated every second?

For educational purposes, I'm looking for a source for now's real-time tick data for stock prices, or FOREX, etc., with a 1 second precision. Is there such free data feed? If not, could such data be ...
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### Value of a continuous cash flow until a random time

I am trying to compute the present value of a continuous cash flow that lasts until a random time. The rate of the cash flow is denoted by $c$ and the random time is denoted by $\tau$. Then my claim ...
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### Is marginal probability of default the same as conditional probability of default?

I'm thrown off by the term marginal probability of default. I've seen it defined by some authors as synonymous term for conditional probability of default conditional probability of default: ...
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### Why is the volume 0 according to Yahoo! Finance? [closed]

According to Yahoo! Finance the S&P 500 had a 0 volume on 2015-05-12: S&P 500 Price @ 2015-05-12 Seems like an error? This is the only occurrence of a ...
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### Mean variance efficient portfolios and target returns

If I use mean variance optimisation to create an efficient portfolio with a target expected return of 20% in a year's time and find that the actual return at the end of the year was 24%, what explains ...
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### Judgemental credit scoring

I have read that if I want to built a model for a new segment, new product and with only 20 historical cases I should opt for a Judgemental credit scoring tool. With a panel of experts and field ...
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### Option greeks vs Position greeks

I know that when it comes to delta, you would calculate your position delta (of a stock position) as follows: option delta * position size * 100 For example if I ...
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### Calibrating stochastic volatility model from price history (not option prices)

For stochastic volatility models like Heston, it seems like the standard approach is to calibrate the models from option prices. This seems a bit like a chicken and an egg problem -- wouldn't we ...
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### Solving Black Scholes PDE using Laplace transform with barrier up and in, up and out call option

I tried to finish the option pricing in european barrier up and in, up and out call option using Laplace transform. The barrier option there is a boundary condition. Can you explain step by step ...
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### Swaption on a swap with 0 year tenor

Any ideas on valuation of IRS swaption on a swap with 0 year tenor? As an example, we have a 5 year swaption, on expiration it is cash settled; the underlying swap tenor is 0 years with excercise and ...
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### Comparing volatility using GARCH

Hi, I am investigating if the policy of inflation targeting lowers the volatility of inflation. I have ran the GARCH regression: Inflation(t) = C + Inflation(t-1) + Inflation(t-2) + Error, but ...