# All Questions

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### Where can i get a feed for country specific economic announcements?

I am looking for a feed for country wide economic announcements. For example CPI announcements etc. I currently use http://www.fxstreet.com/economic-calendar/ but I have to manually go there and ...
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### How can I create a public viewable stock market index?

I have 3,000 tickers that I would like to turn into a weighted index, viewable by the general public by going to Yahoo and typing in ^PSNDX (for example) or go to E-Trade and enter something similar. ...
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### Correlated Random Number Generation using Sobol?

There is a clear theory about generating correlated random numbers using Cholesky decomposition or PCA. I suppose if we apply above methods to random numbers generated using Uniform random numbers ...
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### Best written quantitative finance papers

I have some writing experience, but I want to take my writing skills to the next level. I am particularly interested in writing quantitative finance papers for journals like Journal of Portfolio ...
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### Transformation into Martingale

If $f$ is some function of BV on $\mathbb{R}$ and $dZ_t = f(W_t)dW_t + \mu_t dt$ ($W_t$ is a $1$-dimensional standard Brownian Motion), then what choice of real valued function $F$ makes: ...
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### Inferences with non-normal data

I have data of index closing values. I later will use to run some regressions on the percent changes. When examining the data, I find heteroscedastic residuals and that the distribution is non-normal. ...
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### How to compute short interest real-time?

Is there a way to compute real-time short interest (at least daily) using Bloomberg for a given stock?
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### Volatility updating rule using r

I'm trying to program a volatility updating rule using iteration. I start with the well know Heston-Nandi model where the returns dynamics are : with is iid standard normal randome variable, where ...
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### Why is rate of return on the stock normally distributed under GBM?

Let us assume the geometric Brownian motion, and we have $$dS_t= uS_tdt+\sigma S_tdz,$$ and $S_t$ follows a log-normal distribution, but why is $r_t$, the continuously compounded rate of return, ...
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### Are there providers of delayed market depth data (DOM, Level II, Order-by-Order, etc)?

I have market depth data visualization software, and I want to create a free version for introduction. As far as I know, exchanges allow to distribute their data for free for the end-users, but only ...
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### What is the legal difference between ETFs, ETNs and ETCs

I would like to understand how exchange traded funds (ETFs) can be classified in legal terms. According to Vanguard, there are five ETF structures Open-End Funds Unit Investments Trusts Grantor ...
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### Transition densities in the Heson model

Knowing the Characteristic function $\Phi_{T,t} = \mathbb{E} [ e^{i u S_T} | S_t, V_t]$ (or equivalently, the Laplace transform) of an affine process, it's possible to know the distribution of the ...
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### Source for Normalized File of ETF Holdings [duplicate]

Does anyone know of a source for a data feed containing ETF Holdings for most ETF firms such as Ishares, Proshares, State Street? I know Bloomberg has this info, but I'm looking for a vendor that can ...
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### Please give a step-by-step explanation on how to build a factor model

Factor models such as Fama-French or the other ones that are partially summarized here work on the cross-section of asset returns. How are the factors built, how are sensitivities/coefficients ...
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### Works of Nassim Taleb

I am looking to find the list of math/statistics papers of Nassim Taleb. However the google scholar page only seems to show popular articles. I know that he's famous for his theory of randomness and ...