# All Questions

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### What models / methods are used in practice in derivative pricing?

I wrote my bachelor thesis about European Option Pricing under Stochastic Volatility and Jump Diffusion and am now near the end of my MSc in Quant Finance. As i want to write a "potential job"-...
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### How to calculate monthly Return from a Momentum Strategy with overlapping Holdingperiods?

I replicate a Momentum Strategy from Rey and Schmid (2007) "Feasible momentum strategies" based on the idea from Jegadeesh and Titman (1993). I only buy the single stock with the highest past return ...
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### How to setup a back test step by step?

I would like to setup a back test for Indian equities, Kindly help out with step by step procedure, No need to go into details, outlining of procedure are enough in bullet point, I will research ...
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### SABR Model Closed Form Solution

I've been researching the SABR model and one of the main benefits it seems is that you can obtain a closed for solution of the implied BS volatility in certain cases. In all the papers I've read, I ...
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### Put Volatility Smiles and Implied Volatility

I have been observing the option chains of put options with differing maturities. I have noticed that those puts with a close expiry date have the steepest volatility smiles. Can someone please ...
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### Delta Hedge, does large stock move produce a loss?

I dont understand how MM protect themselves from large moves in underlying while being delta hedged. Example: MM sels 1 ATM put and sells 100stock (delta = 1) as a hedge. Now what will happen if next ...
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### Realized Vol for 15 min interval using second Data

I would like to calculate realized volatility for a 15 min period. Most of the literature I looked up shows how to construct daily realized volatility using intraday data. These literatures does use ...
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### student-t asset path

I am trying to simulate an asset path based on a t-distribution. I found a lot of ressources and the fact that it will be difficult to do a path. But now I changed my Geometric Brownian Motion ...
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### Beta model for measuring risk

My task is to measure Commodity risk ( Oil) for a company . For that I use the APT model , I run a time series linear regression over 10 years where the independant variables are economical and ...
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### Is Asian option in binomial asset pricing model a martingale?

Since it does not have a closed form solution for the price, it's unlikely to be a martingale. However, on the other hand, if we represent the price as a function of the current stock price and the ...
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### Importance Sampling for Least Square Monte Carlo

I am currently trying to implement and model an Importance Sampling estimator for Longstaff and Schwartz algorithm for pricing American put options. It is used such that more paths are in-the-money ...
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### Valuing derivatives under stochastic interest rates

I would like to price a European option with maturity equals to 5 years. To do this, I'm using the Black-Scholes model with stochastic interest rates. Suppose I choose the CIR model for the risk-...
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### Why is the GARCH intercept supposed to be strictly positive?

Maybe it's a simple question but I don't really understand why it is theoretically required. Let's take the standard GARCH(1,1) $$\sigma^2_{t+1}=\omega+\alpha\epsilon^2_{t}+\beta\sigma^2_{t}$$ In most ...
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### What does each bar in the empirical average eigenvalues spectrum of the correlation matrix of log-returns of stocks represent?

An example diagram, taken from this paper, looks like follows: What is its physical interpretation? The highest eigenvalue, the paper says, represents market mode. So, what does the difference in ...
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### Calculate historical duration based on current duration & historical prices

Suppose I have today current duration of a bond and it's historical daily prices. How from that I can calculate the historical duration? e.g. the value of duration I would saw if yesterday, week ago, ...
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### Optimal portfolio construction questions [closed]

I am working on a paper that tries to build an optimal portfolio to hedge various risks (mainly interest rate risk). I have never done this before. Which software program should I use to create an ...
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### Dollar-Neutral in addition to Market-Neutral?

What is the point/benefit of using a dollar-neutral strategy in addition to a Beta-neutral strategy? What exactly does a dollar-neutral strategy buy the investor? What's useful about balancing long ...
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### Mathematical Derivation of Residual Risk

I understand the difference between Excess, Residual and Active Returns. I also understand what Active Risk; defined as: $\sigma_{r_P-r_B}$ (i.e. standard deviation of the difference in returns ...
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### How to calculate optimal monthly withdrawals from an investment with compound interest

I have 1.25M dollars. I want to put it in an investment with 60% annual return paid monthly and re-invest the interest to achieve compound interest. After 15 years, my principal would have grown to ...
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### Volatility for time periods with little data

When I want the monthly volatility of stock and I only have data for about one month and I do calculation like this: ...