# All Questions

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### Why are netted positions more volatile?

According to John Gregory, "netted positions are inherently more volatile than their underlying gross positions". Given the context, I think he's talking about close-out netting and not payment ...
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### Function A(t,T) in Hone-factor Hull-White model

I am struggling with Hull-White model now and have the following question: in the lecture notes under the link below I see how A(t,T) and B(t,T) are being derived. This requires the solution of ...
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### Discrete Hedging of Options

Assume that a stock $S_t$ follows simple geometric Brownian motion. Let's say we sold option whose payoff is $f(S_T)$. Now, we are only allowed to trade 2 times in the interval [0,T]. What kind of ...
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### Stressed Value at Risk vs Value at Risk

Just read some materials about SVaR. Is there only holding period that changes in comparison to VaR methodology?
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### Practical Delta hedging under stochastic volatility models (e.g. SABR model)

I'm currently straggling with Delta hedging under SABR model (or other stochastic volatility models). As far as I know there are numerous Delta hedging strategies theoretically and practically such as ...
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### Any idea of compound Poisson processes in betting? [closed]

Any suggestions on compound poisson processes in bets of a customer?
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### Utility Theory and portfolio optimization - Proof of a lemma

I have a question on the following problem from chapter 9 of D. Luenberger, Investment Science, International Edition: (Portfolio Optimization) Suppose an investor has utility function $U$. ...
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### Interpretation of “alpha” — industry vs academia

Disclaimer: I come from an academic finance perspective and hence I will definitely have my inherent biases in this question. How does one think about "alpha" in portfolio management? In particular, ...
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### In what way are capital increases usually advertised?

I am currently trying to better understand capital increases and dilution. I came across a few presentations of companies. I am trying to find out, if there are any standards, which are commonly part ...
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### The portfolio whose return is the stochastic discount factor

I am trying to construct a portfolio whose return is $a + bm_{t+1}$ where $a$ and $b$ are some constants for a certain investor. $m_{t+1}$ is the stochastic discount factor at time $t+1$. I am ...
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### how are gaps usually handled in market data received with multicast?

Most commonly due to latency reasons, market data is published using multicast protocol. However since multicast is built on top of UDP, it is possible that there could be packet drops. How can the ...
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### How can I use Thomson Reuters Eikon to get a list of large historical companies?

I am trying to use Thomson Reuters Eikon to get a list of historically large companies, for example, what were the 1000 largest companies by market capitalization in 1990? I would like to get lists of ...
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### volume-returns cross correlation interpretation

I want to find the relationship between volume and price returns in the S&P500. My first thought was to run a cross correlation in order to find who leads and who lags in the relation. It´s my ...
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### Get institutional holdings of stocks programmatically

First of, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question, but a search on Google for another programmatically related question regarding stocks led me here, so here it goes. Is there any ...
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### is there an analytical proof that vega-neutral also provides (gamma & theta) neutral?

I've read an answer here that say if your security has vega, then it has gamma and theta. is there an analytical proof that vega-neutral also provides (gamma & theta) neutral?
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### why is there a cancel/replace message in FIX?

Couldn't we just cancel existing order and enter new order? Is there any other reason apart from a communication overhead that now we need to send 2 messages vs just 1 message to cancel replace?
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### Multivariate GARCH in Python

Is there a package to run simplified multivariate GARCH models in Python? I found the Arch package but that seems to work on only univariate models. I'd like to test out some of the more simple ...
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### How to calculate $E^{T_N}(L(T_i, T_{i+1}))$?

suppose $L(T_i, T_{i+1})$ is the LIBOR rate between $T_i$ and $T_{i+1}$, and $T_N$ is some time later than $T_{i+1}$. $E^{T_N}$ is the $T_N$-forward measure. I tried to work this out using John ...
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### Estimating an appropriate haircut for illiquid stocks

I am trying to determine an appropriate haircut for a basket of illiquid stocks that barely traded during the year. Can someone suggest me an approach to estimate the risk? My dataset has a lot of ...
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### Number of simulations for Monte Carlo CVA

Assuming we are calculating CVA across a netting set with a Monte Carlo methodology: 1) How many future dates ("horizons") would be typical - or does that depend entirely upon the composition of the ...
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### How to forecast high-frequency data?

Introduction: I have seen a plenty of articles/books regarding volatility forecasting applied to high frequency data, but none of them were dedicated to forecasting the actual prices (for example ...
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### credit risk - How to calculate the probability of default (private companies)?

Part of my master thesis I am working with a company. I have the project to use their financial database with all the financials data (7 years) of approximately 3’000 companies. They have their own ...
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### CVA for an inflation linked swap

I am trying to value an inflation linked swap and wish to calculate the associated CVA and DVA. I think the best way to approach this would be via a simulation. Suppose I wish to calculate CVA over ...
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### Why t (time) in Black Scholes & Binomial defined as year?

What's the logical/scientific explanation for Black Scholes & Binomial using year rather than second (SI standard for time) ?
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### Is there any index calculation methodology that is suitable when constituents change frequently?

Trying to create a custom stock sector index, however adding/dropping of the constituents will be frequent. Which kind of index calculation methodology (e.g. Price Weighted, Equal Weighted, Cap ...
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### what is the cost for rolling 5 year german future?

im looking at the bobl future for september and for december and see 1.8 basis points difference. i wanted to know why there is this gap? and if im holding a position in september and want to roll it ...
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### How to calculate volatility on intraday data?

I have several weeks of minute-by-minute stock data (start and end prices, volume). Everything I've read so far leads me to believe there isn't a standard method for volatility, which is leaving me ...
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### Futures Holiday Schedule

I am trying to find a place where I can get S&P Emini contract trading days. I would like to get the contract first appearance (September 9th 1997) until today. I can get Holidays but nothing ...
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### What is the tail index for NIG and/or VG?

...as a function of NIG (Normal Inverse Gaussian) or VG (Variance Gamma) parameters, obviously. I've read that the NIG $\alpha$ is related to the $\alpha$-stable tail parameter, which conversely maps ...