# All Questions

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### Looking for a definition of financial entropy

In Science, Entropy is generally considered to be the irreversibility of stuff. Google defines entropy as: lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder The 'gradual decline in ...
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### Looking for the conventions for EONIA swaps used to define EONIA swap rates

I'm trying to recreate some historical curves using EONIA swap rates. Unfortunately I can't find a concrete specification for the swaps. Without knowing if there are intermediate coupon payments, I ...
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### Do Regional Central Banks have API's?

Do Regional Central Banks such as the Federal Reserve and ECB have API's to access their Statistics? I've been searching all day and haven't been able to find them. They seem to provide most of their ...
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### FInding the Delta in margin based on Pricing, Unit Types, Product Mix, and Sale Types

Is there a way to find the change in margin based on the the changes in pricing, unit types, product mix and sale types? Is there a standard formula we can use? We have tried ...
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### Forecasting problem with Geometric Brownian Motion in Wolfram Mathematica

I'm a full time undergraduate student from Peru, and I'm trying to use the Geometric Brownian Motion example used in the help section from Wolfram Mathematica in order to forecast future stock ...
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### API that provides Zero Coupon Bond Yield Curves?

Would anyone know and API or Database where one could access Zero Coupon Bond Yield Curves? Also, is it wrong to use Coupon Paying Bonds Yield Curves and then zero-finding and then bootstrapping to ...
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### American put for negative interest rates

It is often explained, that the rule of thumb for exercising American options is to check when the benefit from the interest rate (sell the stock earlier, get the cash, put in the bank) is higher than ...
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### Simulate (imaginary) asset prices using random numbers that follow a Frank Copula

My goal is to make up some imaginary asset prices. I generated random numbers that follow a two-dimensional Frank Copula with student-t and normal margin, respectively. I do not understand how to ...
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### How to short an option?

It appears to me that retail investors can only buy calls and puts, but not short them through any standardized way (except maybe borrowing the option from a friend ;) ). Is that correct, or how can ...
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### Black Scholes with Dilution

I've seen two ways to account for dilution when valuing a European option using Black Scholes. I'm not sure which is the correct way and why these methods differ. The two ways I've seen are: 1) ...
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### Is there any theoretical work to find an optimum size for the size of horizon in finite-horizon optimization or control?

we learn a lot about finite and infinite horizon control in dynamic programming. but I was wondering if we want to minimize the cost per time(discrete time) is there any work to find the optimum size ...
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### Calculating Fees (Kane, Marcus, and Trippi)

Having read a chapter in Bodie, Kane and Marcus' Investment, I came across a formula I do not quite understand. It states that the percentage fee in excess of what an index fund would charge on active ...
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### Return volatility or Price Volatility [duplicate]

Which is a better method to calculate volatility - Price variance or return variace or is it subjective to the use of volatility figure?
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### Higher expected value and same variance implies weak dominance?

In his book Risk and Asset Allocation, Meucci writes (last paragraph) Indeed, since all the indices of satisfaction $\mathcal{S}$ discussed in Chapter 5 are consistent with weak stochastic ...
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### Calculate the realised volatility from a time series

Does anybody know how to calculate the realised volatility from a series for a certain time frame? For example, I am looking at 5 days, 21 days, 63 days, 126 days and 253 days. thanks
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### Measure difference between estimations and historic returns

For every day in a year, I have the return on an asset and the CAPM estimation for the return. I want to measure the average difference between the set of returns and set of estimations. So far, I ...
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### What is the distribution assumption of the black scholes model

As per wikipedia the Black Scholes assumption is: (...
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### Do I need simulink to model the risks of an option portfolio

I wish to buy Matlab Home and learn to model the risks of a derivatives portfolio and then stress test it. So I am guessing I will need : Stochastic calculus Linear algebra Stats/Probability Some ML ...
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### Constant decreasing volatility, GARCH forecasting

I am trying to forecast the volatility using GARCH modelling in R. I fit an ARMA(1,1)-GARCH(1,1) model, but my sigma predictions are constantly decreasing. Anybody know why? ...
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### Online database of ETF & Mutual Fund Fees?

Is there any online data source of ETF and/or mutual fund fees? Free or paid is fine, although hopefully there's something out there cheaper than Bloomberg
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### What's Risk-Neutral in an Interest Rate Model?

In Shreve II, on p. 265 he states the Hull-White interest rate model as $$dR(u) = \left( a(u) - b(u)R(u)\right) dt + \sigma(u)d\tilde{W}(u),$$ and then mentions "...$\tilde{W}(u)$ is a Brownian ...
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### What is the borne function mentioned in this paper?

On page 16, first paragraph of this paper, the authors introduce a function called "borne", which divides the normal distribution into n ranges of equal size, without citation. The definition is clear ...
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### Residuals in the Ljung box test

does anybody know what type of residuals is used in the Ljung box test in R? raw or standardized? Because basically when I fit a GARCH model using garchFit, the summary() function gives me all the ...
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### Zero rate vs. yield on coupon bearing bond

in Hull's solutions manual of Options, Futures & Derivatives (8th edition), there's question 4.7, in which is asked to put the following in descending order: a) the five-year zero rate, b) the ...
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### Tradeable => Satisfies pricing equation?

In Wilmott's third volume, on p. 857, he tries giving an insight into the market price of risk by showing what it is for traded assets. For this he constructs a portfolio of two different options: ...
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### Corporate finance exercise book

I'm preparing a corporate finance exam and I need a book with illustrated exercises that make you really understand the subject, since the written exam is not much mechanical, but more similar to ...
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### Zero rates coupon bond calculation

In order to do cash flow mapping I need zero rates for corporate bonds , where to find or how to find the o rates ?
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### Apply CAPM using returns on a foreign currency as the market returns

I want to analize Bitcoin returns using the CAPM. I was thinking if it makes sense to compare returns of (BTC/USD) against (EUR/USD), taking the latter as the market returns. However, since EUR is ...
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### How do I interpret yield curve data points given by the US Treasury?

Given the Daily US Treasury Yield Curve Rates for a specific date I will fit the curve with the cubic spline method, but first I need to know how to use the data points given by the Treasury. For ...
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### Beta Constrained Markowitz Minimum Variance Portfolio - Closed Form Solution

This question is related to recent rule changes in the Quantopian Open. I am trying to figure out a closed form solution to a beta constrained minimum variance portfolio problem but it doesn't seem ...
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### Why is “Deferred revenue” a non-monetary liability?

Why is "Deferred revenue" treated as a non-monetary liability during temporal method FX translation while "Accrued Expenses" is treated as a monetary liability?
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### Forecasting using GARCH in R

I am using the predict and ugarchforecast functions in R. When I fit my models and try to forecast, I get either only increasing or decreasing values for sigma, does anyone know why? Thank you ...
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### Uses of Volatility models

I'm reading about volatility analysis here http://vlab.stern.nyu.edu/doc?topic=mdls. There are many variations of GARCH. My question is: rather than trial-and-error approach, is there any systematic ...
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### importing columns of returns data into python from excel/csv [closed]

I'm fairly new to the quant finance space, and I was hoping to get some guidance. Say I have a csv/excel file with columns of daily returns data for various asset classes or securities (one column per ...
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### European option and American option are equivalent in this case?

This is Question No.11 from 2007 May MFE Exam. For a two-period binomial model for stock prices, you are given: (1) Each period is 6 months. (2) The current price for a nondividend ...
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### Difference between Tick data and NASDAQ ITCH VIEW [closed]

Could any one explain the difference
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### Compute cross-gamma

I am trying to use delta-gamma method with montecarlo simulations to calculate the VAR of a portfolio consisting in options and equities. To use the method I need to compute a gamma matrix, that has ...
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### One state variables implies perfect correlation of returns?

In Vasicek's seminal 1977 paper "An equilibrium characterization of the term structure", he states the bond price $P(t,s)$ is a function of the spot rate $r(t)$, $P(t,s) = P(t,s,r(t))$. He then ...
It looks like the commissions alone for a non-index option trade is around 2-5%. For example, a BAC June ATM Call is currently trading at \$0.20; Interactive Brokers charges$0.7 per contract, which ...