# All Questions

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### quantiative risk measure how they are implemented in R and their use

So far I have just theoretical knowledge of risk measure and never used them in application. Therefore I have some basic question how risk measures are used in reality and how they are implemented in ...
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### Convolution copula?

Using copula formulation for the following probability: $$\mathbb{P}(X\leq x,y_{1}\leq Y\leq y_{2})=\mathbb{P}(X\leq x,Y\leq y_{2})-\mathbb{P}(X\leq x,Y\leq y_{1})$$ ...
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### Delta of a standardized at-the-money 30-day put option

The plot below depicts the delta of a standardized at-the-money 30-day put option on the S&P500 tracker SPY over a 14-year period. This is data from OptionMetrics and standardized prices are ...
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### using quantlib function in my c++ program

I want to include the QuantLib function for option greeks calculations in my own C++ code. My question is: can I just include those functions? I don't want to use the rest of their stuff. I obviously ...
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### annual excess returns from CAPM on monthly total returns

I want to calculate annual excess returns on portfolios using monthly returns for a CAPM (for the assets in the portfolio as well as for the benchmark), in order to have more information on the ...
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### How can the Wiener process be nowhere differentiable but still continuous?

Taking a class in financial derivatives (book we use is Tomas Bjork´s Arbitrage theory in continuous time) but can´t understand the exact meaning of how the Wiener process is defined. In the book one ...
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### Ordering of CME Level 2 FIX Market data?

The following link contains a file containing CME Level 2 FIX Market/Orderbook data for Corn futures: ftp://ftp.cmegroup.com/datamine_sample_data/md/mdff_cbt_20130714-20130715_7813_0.zip However, ...
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### Bond (yield curve) dynamics in the Forward-LIBOR-market-model

The standard Libor-Forward-Market-Models provides a way of modelling the evolution of forward rates in time. However the model does not seem to be well suited for the modelling of zero-bonds. But ...
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### How do you calibrate a poisson arrival rate process?

Many papers in the microstructure literature assume an order arrival rate of the form $\lambda^a(\delta) = \lambda^b(\delta) = Ae^{-k\delta}$ That is, an order that's placed $\delta$ away from the ...
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### Calculate interest rate swap curve from Eurodollar futures price

So I was reading Robert McDonald's "Derivatives Markets" and it says Eurodollar futures price can be used to obtain a strip of forward interest rates. We can then use this to obtain the implied ...
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### modelling with Meixner process

I failed to evaluate the integral of v(x)e^x over real numbers (i.e, from -infinite to +infinite) with respect to dx where v(x)=2d exp(2(pi+b)x/a)/abs(x)(1-exp(2pi.x/a)) for x<0 and v(x)=2d ...
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### Derivation of a ML estimator

I have the following likelihood function: I'm given this information about the $\Omega$ matrix ($\boldsymbol{1}$ is a $T \times 1$ vector of ones): I would like to be able to show that the ...
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### Divergent or Convergent Strategies? Which is the way to go?

Consider first the simple convergent strategy to invest some amount $X$ in a game, if you win you simply take the winnings and keep playing a subsequent game. In the case of a loss, you believe in ...
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### PDE pricing of barrier options in BS

Path-dependent options in BS framework is intuitive to price with monte-carlo under risk-neutral measure, however it appears that several kinds can be priced with PDEs. I understand how does the story ...
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### unique equivalent martingale measure in incomplete markets

Do you have any idea about how we can prove, and under which conditions, that an equivalent martingale measure (EMM) in an incomplete market is unique? The assumptions we have made are: 1) that the ...
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### Developing an Android App. Need free volatility data [duplicate]

I'm currently developing an android app that requires volatility data. Any idea where can I get it for free? I tried Yahoo Finance API and they don't seem to have volatility data. Thanks
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### EMM in incomplete markets

The simply put question is as follows: do we need to restrict ourselves to EMM exclusively when pricing European contingent claims (=option payoffs) even if markets are incomplete? In particular, a ...
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In many books and derivations of the Black-Scholes PDE one sees that $$\Pi=V-\Delta F \Rightarrow d\Pi=dV-\Delta dF$$ which implicitly assumes that $d\Delta=0$. Somewhere down the road one then ...
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### Integration in the context of modelling with the Meixner Process

I failed to evaluate the integral of $\frac{e^{ax}}{x\sinh(bx)}$ with respect to $x$ from negative infinite to positive infinite, What techniques can I use to evaluate the integrals of such kind for ...
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### Simple question about expected value of brownian motion

I would appreciate some help with the math in this paper : High Frequency Trading in a Limit Order Book Specifically, I would like to understand how the authors calculated the expected value of price ...
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### Different range price data on one chart

I'd like to evaluate 3-4 instruments on one price chart. For example: Stock A: 90,05 90,15 90,25 90,09 Stock B: 0,0045 0,0049 0,0039 0,0040 Stock C: 1998,1 1998,7 1998,8 1997 I try to use: ...
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Seeing how very few actually read the Quant Finance meta I intentionally post it here on the main site. To the more powerful admins: could you leave it here for a day or two and move it to meta ...
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