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### How to calculate intraday implied vol on the last day of trading an OTM option

i've been trading globex options on US Treasury futures, but my option calculator only takes the date as the time input..so on the last trading day, the model assumes all values are errors because the ...
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### Machine learning clustering use-cases in the finance industry [closed]

We want to identify use-cases of machine learning clustering in finance. Typically, clustering is an unsupervised process but we want to apply a supervised method where the data is feature ...
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### Black-box local volatility pricer

I am testing a local volatility pricer by comparing its results under two settings: Pricing a 5yr ATM call option with a flat volatility of $0.194$ Pricing the call option with the typically shaped ...
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### Stripping projection curve

What is meant by the statement below: "Stripping projection curve (e.g. 3M curve) given the OIS curve" I understand that while bootstrapping an OIS curve using OIS swap rates and OIS fixed rates, we ...
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### GARCH parameters

I'm trying to estimate parameters of GARCH(p,q) model. I tried p=1, q=1 with t-distribution errors. Ljung-Box showed no correlation in residuals and squared residual. But the null hypothesis that ...
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### What is the difference between market efficiency, market equilibrium, and no-arbitrage?

Aaron Brown (in the book, The Poker Face of Wall Street, p. 196), discusses four approaches to deriving the same Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing formula: Ed Thorp, Myron Scholes, Robert ...
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### What is the name of this product?

Consider the payoff =$S_T1_{S_T>K}$ where $S_T$ is the asset price at maturity. What is this type derivative called? and is it a liquid option?
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### How to replicate the price of a FX forward contract

using the given market: 1- USD Swap market (fixed for float). Float leg pays 3MLibor quarterly, act360. Fixed Leg pays annually, act360. Market is trading mid at 1.125%. 2- TIIE market. Fixed for ...
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### What are the advantages/disadvantages of these approaches to deal with volatility surface?

I would like to know if someone could provide a summarized view of the advantages and disadvantages of the approaches on the volatility surface issues, such as: Local vol Stochastic Vol ...
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### Stochastic volatility model with exponential OU volatility

I have a friend in the industry who said they are interested in the model I gave in the title. Whether they use it, idk. $dS_t= S_t(rdt+ \sigma_t dW_t)$ And $\sigma_t$ is the exponential of an OU ...

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