# All Questions

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### Vendor data aggregation for Options on Futres

Have anyone managed to automate data consolidation between Reuters and Bloomberg for Options on Futures? Are there any common attributes that these vendors share in this particular asset class that ...
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### Value at Risk from Delta of a single asset portfolio

I am trying to figure out the following, for me unfamiliar type of question: Given is a single asset portfolio: the Delta of the portfolio is 15, the value of the asset is 10 and the daily volatility ...
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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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### Are there references about liquidation, transaction, market impact costs in portfolio optimization

I am looking for some references treating of what I would call liquidation cost market impact cost transaction cost(*) in the usual "portfolio optimization problem under linear constraints". Let ...
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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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### Comparing a money-weighted return of my own portfolio with a benchmark ETF/other portfolio that is subject to the same cashflows

I am able to calculate the money-weighted return (XIRR equivalent in Excel) of my portfolio. Whilst I can compare this with ‘headline’ returns of ETF’s, Mutual Funds etc, I want to isolate the timing ...
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### Wrong discount factors when finding Nelson Siegel Svensson model parameters

I am trying to determine the parameters for the Nelson Siegel Svensson model and am solving a Non- Linear Optimization problem to do this. Some of the code I have written is below and this is where my ...
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### Comparing Implied Vol. to Historical Vol. using intraday data

I'm interested in estimating what my profit/loss would be for continuously gamma scalping a delta hedged option over the course of one day, using historical intra-day price data. I found an equation ...
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### Weights Blowing up in PCA

I'm using daily settlement data to get yield levels for a couple of products. From this data I am doing PCA on a rolling collection of the yield levels. I have been using sci-kit learn's PCA function, ...
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### Methods or models to predict activity of clients of a bank

I'm a Physicist but I'd like to know if there are some methods or models to predict the activity of the clients of a bank. I heard that banks are interested in this sort of analysis so I got curious ...
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### Calculating the volatility for Black Scholes

The following problem is from the book by Hull. I did it but I am not sure it is right. I am hoping that somebody here can tell me if I did it right and if not where I went wrong. Thanks Bob ...
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### Credit risk terms differences:

What are the differences between these terms: Contingent Credit Exposure Exposure profiles, Settlement Exposure, Negotiable Paper Exposure. Many thanks!
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### Comparability of random and fixed effects results

I have data of 15 pension funds over 10 years. I want to analyze the relationship between the funding ratio of a pension fund and the asset allocation. First, I do the analysis with the proportion of ...
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### Euler discretization error increasing with number of steps? (GBM, Matlab)

I'm trying to see how the Euler discretization error behaves with respect to the number of steps. To do this I'm simulating a geometric brownian motion and comparing it with it's 'exact' solution. ...
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### Foresight bias in least square monte carlo

Foresight bias means we tend to over estimate the American option value. This we observe in other areas of statistics - e.g. in sample test almost always gives better prediction than out of sample ...
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### Early execise of American Call on Non-Dividend paying stock.

Let us consider an American call option with strike price K and the time to maturity be T. Assume that the underlying stock does not pay any dividend. Let the price of this call option is C$^a$ today ...
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### Can someone explain to me what's snell envelope?

What is snell intuitively? And what is its use in quantitative finance? Please explain to me as intuitive as possible! As I explained in the comments, I am new to this field and I was hoping someone ...
I'm trying to get an intuition as to why the adjusted closing price includes a dividend adjustment: $$1 - \frac{dividend}{close}$$ I understand why the adjusted closing ...