# All Questions

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### returns series for daily strategy

I have a trend following OTC futures strategy which is trading a day-ahead commodity contract. If a signal is triggered the strategy goes long / short into delivery. The holding period of a contract ...
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### How to price a reversion?

A reversion is the right to exclusive possession of a property after a specified date (‘reversion date’). Assume no ground rent is payable. Its complement is a leasehold, the right to exclusive ...
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### Calculating CoSkewness and CoKurtosis from univariate skewness and kurtosis and calculate portfolio skewness and kurtosis

I have calculated skewness and kurtosis for n assets and got a skewness vector skew = [S1,...,Sn] and kurt = [K1,...,Kn]. Now with having covariance matrix and these vectors I would like to calculate ...
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### Sobol numbers in monte Carlo simulation

I wanted to figure how how much faster the Sobol quasi random numbers convergence to the B&S call price compared with pseudo random numbers. To generate the Sobol numbers I used the randtoolbox in ...
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### VaR interpretation for positive returns

I used Extreme Value Theory to separate extreme negative returns from extreme positive returns, then, I calculated the VaR for both. I need to know what could be the interpretation of VaR for ...
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### Is it possible to detect a belief that a security will peak and then decline by analyzing American options pricing?

Please forgive me if this is a dumb question. I know only the basics of options and their valuation, and this is a question I've wondered for some time without being able to find a satisfactory answer ...
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### Delta Volatility Surface Usage to value the option

I always find myself in the unknown charted territory when it comes to non-Linear Instruments. I come across the scenario, How to value the option using Delta Vol surface? Example I have CME traded ...
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### White’s Reality Check p-value calculation?

I'm testing whether technical trading rules can deliver superior returns in contrast to a benchmark, the risk free rate. As performance measurement, denoted by $\varphi$, I use the annualized Sharpe ...
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### Calculating portfolio risk

I want to calculate the risk of a portfolio with the following. In order to calculate the following formula: However, I am not sure if I have to use log returns or simple returns to calculate the ...
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### state space for affine yield curve

i would like to reproduce in R the working paper " Affine free arbitrage class of Nelson Siegel term structure". The authors considering the equation of nelson siegel plus an adjustment term(C(t,T)) ...
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### How is fundamental data taken into account when modelling stock prices with a Geometric Brownian Motion?

I have a basic understanding of the principles behind Geometric Brownian Motion and how it can be used to model stock prices, however I am confused as to how it is used in practice. In particular, how ...
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### Assuming Black-Scholes assumptions are correct, would the expected return from buying/selling options be 0?

I'm trying to solidify my understanding of options pricing and risk neutral distributions. If the assumptions of the Black-Scholes option pricing were true for an underlying (namely that the future ...
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### Methods Available for Derivative Pricing in Mathematica? [closed]

I am using Mathematica to price options (built in functions, no need to reinvent the wheel, right?). In the documentation, the Binomial method is used as an example of specifying a non-standard ...
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### Cheat/sheet summary of financial laws and regulations

I wonder whether there are or we can collect cheat-sheets for the various international regulations of the financial markets. There is e.g. the Dodd-Frank act for the US. Can we gather cheat sheets ...
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### how do we know if the volatility which is quoted in market is Normal (Bachelier model) or log normal (Black 76)?

in market, many instruments are quoted in volatility, but how we can tell what kind of volatility is this? is it normal volatility, or lognormal volatility. because it affect our hedging positions so ...
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### Are commodities a real assets or a physical assets? [closed]

In CFA Level Reading 45 Commodities include precious metals, energy products, industrial metals, and agricultural products. Real assets are tangible properties such as real estate, airplanes, ...
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### How does risk attitude influence trading? (Bibliography seeking)

I wonder how risk-averse or risk-seeking investors behave in a stock market. Is there any bibliography that deals with that? For example, suppose that we have a risk-averse investor that buys a ...