# All Questions

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### Spotting humps in implied volatility term structure

Sometimes implied volatility term structure performs a hump shape. How can I measure the frequency of hump appearence? Basically, I have several years of daily data on IV TS, how can I count the ...
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### Understanding the necessary and sufficient conditions for rational early exercise of a call option

I am self-studying for an actuarial exam, and I encountered the following in my text: The author states that if $PV_{t, T}\text{(Divs)} < K(1 - e^{-r(T - t)})$, early exercise is not rational. ...
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Yahoo offers an API to download historical intraday data, but I am unable to understand the timestamps on the data. The URL request is: ...
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### CDO selling or buying credit protection?

I think there is an error in the Meissner text - Correlation Risk Modeling and Management and can't find an errata for this text to verify. On page 19 the foot note reads: Shorting the equity ...
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### How to create prospective Bonds for a dynamic portfolio simulation?

The aim is to simulate and to compare different bond portfolio strategies for different interest rate scenarios over ten years. The rebalancing takes place on an annual basis. Hence, e.g. a bond with ...
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### dollar neutral ratio vs beta hedged ratio

Hi guys i really hope you can help as i've been pulling out my hair for days on this!! OK so basically i understand the dollar neutral ratio, simply stocka/stockb = dollar neutral ratio. Works great ...
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An increase in default correlation ceteris paribus increases the value of the equity tranche of a CDO. This I get. How then, do I make sense of the statement that as default correlation in the ...
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### Formula behind pandas.Options() implied volatility

I noted that implied volatility (IV field) from pandas.Options class is very different (especially, for out of money options) than what I compute with Black-Scholes model. (risk free rate is pulled ...
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### Construction of bond portfolio represented by a CDS-Index

Markit publishes investable basket CDS indices. These are indices intended to track the credit risk of a basket of issuers (e.g. in the case of iTraxx Europe Series 24 these are 125 names) in an ...
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### Calculating expected shortfall

I'm trying to calculate the expected shortfall for the below scenario. I don't understand why the 1.04% probability of 0 bonds defaulting is used as a weight when calculating ES, since the binomial ...
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### How to get list of large intraday movers for that day?

Is there a source (preferably free :) that provides a list of large intraday (versus pre market) movers for the day you look? I don't mind getting the list on market close. I don't need historical ...