# All Questions

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### Why the expected return rate of a stock has nothing to do with its option price?

OK, I admit that this is a frequently asked question. But I couldn't find a satisfying answer after I read the explanations of books, went through the derivations of B-S formula, and searched answers ...
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### The Law of One Price in a discrete model

The following question assumes familiarity with the discrete model described in chapter 5 of Steven Roman's "Introduction to the Mathematics of Finance", 2nd edition, Springer 2012. I will not ...
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### forecasting trading costs with end of day data

I am trying to create a model that forecasts trading costs (using end of day data, so no intra day data). My trading cost (also called Implemented Shortfall (IS) is defined as such for a single stock, ...
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### Creating correlated Brownian motions from independent ones

This is the exercise from book "Stochastic Calculate for Finance Volume 2", Page 199. Let $(W_{1}(t),...,W_{d}(t))$ be a d-dimensional Brownian motion. $(\sigma_{ij}(t))_{m\times d}$ be an ...
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### (Re) normalisation of random variable in Monte-Carlo simulations

I have a very simple model (CIR) with a very simple discretisation scheme (Euler) and I use it to do Monte-Carlo Simulations. It is working. Someone insisted that renormalization of my random ...
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### Why aren't there any single owner companies over a billion dollars? [closed]

The biggest companies have multiple owners which dilute the authority and finances of the company. They are either publicly traded companies via selling shares through stock markets, or privatly owned ...
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### Good book about replicating portfolios

I want to know if anybody can suggest me a good textbook which explains in detail and in an understandable way how to create replicating portfolios of financial instruments like options "cash or ...
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### Clarification of Saturation-Reset Regimes

I have worked my way through this article, waiting to get into school I have been self-learning a bit. I have a good grasp on most of the article, but the component strategy of Saturation and Reset ...
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### Calculate CVaR for a portfolio

I would like to calculate the Conditional Value at Risk for a portfolio. To be honest, I'm trying for a few days to find an example to calculate for an entire portfolio, not just for one security and ...
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### Braess's paradox in quantitative finance: When optionality leads to lower value…?

One of the standard tenets of quantitative finance is that options should have an intrinsic value because optionality as such (in the sense of having more choices) should bring about value. This ...
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### Confused on interpretation of betas/alphas in regression in finance

I ran a regression on two stocks. I don't have the data in front of me, but it is a more conceptual question. Let's say SP500 returned a total 23% return over this time period and MSFT returned ...
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### How to differentiate a brownian motion?

By definition a wiener process cannot be differentiated. But when we use Ito's lemma on F = X^2, where X is wiener process we have total change in ...
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### Stock price is a martingale if the riskless interest rate is zero?

I came across a question as such: Suppose company IBC is trading at \$75 per share. What does it cost to construct a derivative security that pays exactly one dollar when IBC hits$100 for the ...
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### Binomial tree vs trinomial tree in pricing options

Very new to pricing models. Is there a general guideline when to use binomial tree and when trinomial tree is preferred? As far as I know, unlike binomial tree, trinomial tree only gives a range ...
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### Transforming Variables in Regression

I have a very simple problem that hopefully someone could help me with or at least point me in the right direction. I am testing to see which factors affect index returns the most and would like to ...
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### use of recurrence quantification analysis for deterministic signal identification and classification

The recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) is a method of nonlinear data analysis which quantifies the number and duration of recurrences of a dynamical system presented by its state space ...
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### building a portfolio without knowing the initial capital

Lets say I have the trades made by trader X on multiple stocks and I want to aggregate them into a portfolio to compute the portfolio return over time. For instance, I know that X bought 10 shares of ...
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How can i download historical price data from interactive brokers using IbPy and python?
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### API for paper trading service

I have recently created an HFT algorithm and before attaching it to a real trading service I would like to test with paper money. The API for the paper trading would need to be compatible with C++ and ...
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### A problem involving random walks from Shreve

Problem 5.4i in Shreve examines a symmetric random walk. Let $\tau_2$ be the first time that the random walk reaches 2. For $\alpha\in (0, 1)$, we are given that E [\alpha ^ {\tau_2}] =\sum_{k = ...
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### Calculate herfindahl of pcs

I would like to calculate the herfindahl of principal components of a cap weighted portfolio. Not sure how to do that if anyone could provide some guidance that would be great. Thanks for your help
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Looking for providers or software layers of a RESTful trading api. I would like to read option chain data (amongst other things), do some calculations server side, and send orders back to the broker ...
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### Finding historical data monthly data [duplicate]

Where can I find historical data for WTI Price, gold price, CRB index for my research work? Is there any website from where I can download these data?
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### Is implied volatility flawed?

Was going through how Implied Volatility is used by option traders and in delta hedging. Correct me if I am wrong, doesn't IV consider a standard deviation of the stock price over say the past 1 year? ...
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### How to calibrate volatility surface for Interest Rate Cap&Floor pricing

I'm using Black model to do interest rate Cap & Floor pricing. The volatility is determined by using the bootstrapping methodology. However, afterwards, how should I do the calibration, or ...
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### Discount Curve built-up

For a particular currency, let's say for USD, I'd like to know how to construct a discount curve? I've an impression that one professor told me that for USD, less than 3 months, it's using Libor ...
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### How to calculate margin costs for a brokerage account?

I wanted to calculate total margin costs for an account that started with 5,000 cash and held for 6-months? I managed to get some sample rates online . My assumption is that I would borrow another ...
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### KeyError in Python code used to determine a trade signal for Pair Trading

I'm basically running some code as follows. Basically I'm just retrieving pairs of stocks (laid out as Row 1-Stock 1,2, Row 2-Stock 1,2 and so on, where Stock 1 and 2 are different in each row) from a ...
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### Why is IV different between put and call of same strike

In his book 'Dynamic Hedging' Nassim Taleb says that the volatility of an OTM put should be exactly equal to that of a corresponding in the money call of same strike. But in option chains, the ...
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### Technical Analysis - OBV indicator calculation in R

Here is a few references about OBV calculations: http://ta.mql4.com/indicators/volumes/on_balance_volume ...
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### Calibration of Heston version of CIR

I'd like to calibrate a variant of Heston model for interest rates which is describe by this couple of SDE \begin{aligned}dr_t&=a(b-r_t)+\sqrt{r_t}\sigma_t dW_t^1 \\ ...
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### Value-at-Risk of the sum of three independent lognormal random variables with different confidence level

there are three Business units in a firm, each has operational VaR value which are independent from eachother. the quantile for each opVaR is different from the others. can I simply add the VaRs to ...
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### Differences between editions of Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd?

Where can I find a comparison of the contents, a list of everything that changed or the differences among the different editions of the book Security Analysis by ...
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### Value-at-Risk - Currency Swap

Can someone explain to me how to calculate the VaR (delta-normal-method) for a Currency Swap? Thanks in advance. Regards Alexander
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### Using Gordon's Growth Model to find value of corporation

This is a question posed to us by my professor in my finance class. I was under the impression that the Gordon Growth Model was used to find the intrinsic value of a stock, but I am unsure how to plug ...
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### What is the use of options pricing formulas

This may seem like a dumb question, but if the EMH is generally true, wouldn't options already be correctly priced? Why do we need all these intricate formulas, unless we think the prices are wrong or ...
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### Discounted Stock Price

I have the following Question : Prove that under the risk-neutral probability p the stock and the banjaccount have the same average rate of growth. In other words, if $S_0 , S_N$ are the initial ...
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### Distribution of running maximums of a log normal process

I've been searching for quite some time and would appreciate any guidance! What I'm looking for is the distribution of running maximums for a log-normal process. If anyone is familiar with any ...
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### Complete Multiperiod Binomial model

I have the following deifnition of a Complete multiperiod binomial model: A multi period binomial model can be called complete if every derivative security can be replicated by trading in the ...
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### Validation of Bates SVJ model

I have just finished implementing the Bates model for pricing European call options. To check results, I have been looking for a validation set where I could see the Bates parameter values and ...
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### Using Black-Scholes to price a geometric average price call

Sorry if this is the wrong exchange for this question. It seems to be the most relevant, anyway. I'm trying to learn and understand the Black-Scholes framework, with a focus on the stochastic ...
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### Dynamic Hedging for a Bond

Sorry if this question is duplicate. Analyzing the scenario to hedge bond credit risk with CDS. but if Bond price changes CDS notional will not change. is there any way i can hedge this ?
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### Difference between Risk avoidance and Risk transfer

I was hoping some could explain the two terms namely, risk avoidance and risk transfer. Also, can a risk be avoided by transferring it?
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### Empirical distribution function of overlapping time series data

If we model asset return volatility for periods of more than one (say more than one day) there is the square-root rule which holds true under some assumptions. The situation is more tricky if we look ...
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### Replication of the portfolio in single step binomial model

I would be grateful if anyone would comment how to construct this: Assume $S_{i}^k$ is a stock price at time level $i$ and at price level $k$. Assume option is written on $S$ with a a payoff ...
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### US options market/microstruture research

Can someone point out where to find up to date market/microstruture research in the options market?
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### rollapply with Arima model: testing for stability of coefficients

I am trying to fit an arima model on a rolling window using rollapply.My aim is to plot a graph of the evolution of the coefficient, plot the error and the standard deviation. well i encountered the ...