# All Questions

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### Who is the issuer and the counter part of this instrument?

I have the following SWAP contract : T1UH4 which is a 2-Year Deliverable Interest Rate Swap. Product info : ...
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### Volatility Minimum Analysis for Trading

I have been back testing some algorithms against a low volume highly volatile stock. I've found that during low volatile periods the technical indicators are following noise more than real trends. ...
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### Approaches to check/validate the output of an optimization algorithm

Let's say we want to optimize the a function $f(x_1,\dots, x_n)$ with $(x_1, \dots , x_n) \in \mathbb{D}^n$. For the sake of simplicity let $\mathbb{D}^n$ be the unit sphere. We chose an optimization ...
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### measuring the performance of round-trips on stocks

can you provide me with some ideas to assess the profitability of round-trips? That is when I buy 100 shares of IBM at 10\$and I resell them two days later at 11\$, how can I measure the profit made? ...
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### Copula Value At Risk

Let's suppose I have two asset in my portfolio. I want to compute Copula Value At Risk. Can you help me? This is the code I wrote: ...
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### Gibson & Schwartz (1190) - Time series empirical properties and Stochastic Process assumed

Gibson and Scwhartz in their paper "Stochastic convenience yield and the pricing of oil contingent claims" assume a log normal process for the spot price. They later claim to justify this process ...
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### Markit PMI vs ISM PMI

What is the difference between the Markit Manufacturing PMI and the ISM Manufacturing PMI? The monthly number differs a lot, my understanding is that they are trying to indicate the same thing.
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### Rationale behind formula for pivot point calculation

Is there any objective rationale or mathematical reasoning behind the following formula for pivot points and intra day support and resistance levels? What are the underlying assumptions for the ...
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### Where can i find financial data of CDO's starting from 1996

I'm searching for financial information on CDO's from 1996. These infos should include: Collateral,Type (RMBS, CMBS, CDO2, CLO, ABS,etc.) their course, Underlying, Rating, duration,year,and interest ...
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### Sampling and/or asymptotic distribution of a function

Assume we have the following function: $$f(p) = \frac{1}{(1-p)d}\ln\left(\frac{1}{T}\sum_{t=1}^{T}\left[\frac{1+X_t}{1+Y_t} \right]^{1-p} \right)$$ where $d$ is a constant $T$ is a constant $X_t$ ...
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### How to calculate modeled asset volatility by industry factor?

Currently I am working with huge data frame which consists of a lot firms. For each firm in my sample I calculated asset volatility ( I am using Merton default probability model, so I have used 2 ...
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### Modeling the Option Volatility Skew

The volatility skew often changes based on multiple factors, such as moneyness of the option, time to expiration, movement in the underlying instrument, etc.. How does one best model the skew? Is ...
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### URL with SEC data

Do you know a URL where i can find the CIK of a listed company PLUS ON THE SAME URL the filing dates of 10-Q or 10-K documents? So i can create this url ...
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### Issuing bonds at discount - computing effective interest rate

Suppose Southwest Airlines issued 100,000 USD of 9%, 5-year bonds when the market interest rate is 10%. The market price of the bonds drops, and Southwest receives \$96,149. First of all, in my ...
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### Stock Price Question

Can anyone show me how to answer this please? A stock has beta of 2.0 and stock specific daily volatility of 0.04. Suppose that yesterday’s closing price was 95 and today the market goes up by 3%. ...
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### Is there any way to adjust the average cumulative credit loss rates (Exihibit 22) in Annual Default Study 1920-2012 by Moody due to country risk?

I would like to know whether we can adjust the average cumulative credit loss rates (Exihibit 22) in Annual Default Study 1920-2012 by Moody due to country risk (eg. Damodaran country risk premium). ...
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### Interpolation on CDS rates

I am just wondering if there is any way we could calculate a CDS Spread (not harzard rate) on a CDS curve. Most of the papers that I have come across so far discuss about interpolating the hazard ...
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### Calculating index arbitrage

I have a days-worth of level 2 market data. I am calculating S&P500 index arbitrage. I have a few questions about the calculation: 1) Should I be summing all the bids and asks from the stocks ...
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### Data vendor providing end of day equity data for private use including US and main European countries

I'm looking for a data vendor with reliable data (and affordable price) that provides end of day data for at least US, german, french, italian and spanish equities. The data export should be automated ...
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### Step-by-Step PCA algorithm (checking correctness without math packages)

I would appreciate if someone could correct me if i am wrong in my suggestion. I am using PCA to : find measure of cointegration between selected assets find the eigenvector and its portfolio with ...
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### Rational expectation meaning

What does rational expectation (RE) mean in agent-based modeling context? What are the relationships between RE and expectation and outcome?
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### Price variances on fixed income assets

New to the site. I am currently working on a project that involves analyzing two pricing sources (IDC and Markit) on fixed income assets (Corp, High Yield, Muni, and Structured). I am trying to ...
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### IB with R which package?

I want to implement my models in R and trade according to them with my IB account. Now I am wondering, how I should solve this problem? Do I need to program with C an access ...
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### Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) Codes for NASDAQ Stocks?

Is there a definitive list of Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) Codes for NASDAQ listed stocks, and if so, is there open access?
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### Solvency II Assets-D1S QRT

Extract from EIOPA log file for this report: This template will only be required for undertakings with structured products above an application threshold, defined as structured products representing ...
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### BS Implied Volatility under Normal returns

If I use theoretical prices under a normal valuation model, and I estimate their implied volatility using BLACK SCHOLES implied volatility, do I'll get corresponding log normal volatility?
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### any introduction on beta adjustment for basis risk?

On beta adjustment for basis risk, I could only find an online definition: Gap reports modified to mollify the errors caused by basis risk. The essential concept of beta-adjusted gap is that all ...
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### Yahoo Finance API

Have been looking for ways to down load stock price data using Yahoo Finance on Chinese Stocks. Symbol that ends with .SS = stock listed in Shanghai, .zz = stock listed in Shenzhen This link ...
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### How to get company ids (like CIK)

I need company ids and jurisdiction codes for all the companies all over the world. So that I can use it to extract information from opencorporates. Any idea where I can find the information
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### Fair interest of mortgages

May be a stupid question, but I don't know the answer. Suppose someone asking me money for a mortgage for buying something. If I know the chance (mean value of payments and variance of payments) that ...
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Where I can high-frequency intraday data on VIX? Is it available on Bloomberg Terminals? I see many questions posted on Quant.stackexechange about VIX options therefore I am sure someone knows where I ...
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### Log returns and time

In calculating realized/historical vol for fx spot, my samples/fixings are currently every minute. I need to be able to calculate and plot historical/realized vol on demand from spot prices. ...
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### How does Interactive Broker's historical data compare to other alternatives?

Has any of you stumbled with shows stopper problems like it having survivorship bias?
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### OF-B1 report - cell A1

Pretty basic question - what is the SIGN that should be used in cell A1 of the EIOPA Solvency II OF-B1 report? So should share capital be displayed with a positive or negative value? CP-13 extract: ...
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### US Treasury off the run trading

Between CME, Brokertec and eSpeed one can trade the vast majority of CTDs, on-the-run and treasury futures contracts electronically. How does one trade off the runs and old bonds? Is there an open/ ...
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### pricing barrier options

Is there an easy derivation of this? I don't understand page 13 http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~may/VIGRE/VIGRE2010/REUPapers/Turner.pdf u(0, τ)=0 This problem has now become that of the ﬂow of ...
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### Binary options and European option is similar?

European options and binary (digital) options is similar? How apply the Black & Scholes formula on binary option?
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### Index Price Simulation Volatility Bands

I am building a simple stochastic model for learning purposes in excel. I took daily data for the SPY since 1/1/1993. I computed the daily log returns and found that the SPY has had an average daily ...
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### I want to optimize an equity portfolio for the four central moments can anyone help me with the problem formulation

Basically i am confused as to which formula to use for portfolio skew and kurtosis and how to use the same in the optimization problem. I would also like to know the options available regarding the ...