# All Questions

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### Can end-to-day trading be profitable? If not, why? [closed]

Many academics argue that end-to-day trading, where you go long or short before opening and sell your security at the end of the day, is not profitable. Various explanations are given for this ...
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### How do you organize this Roman occasions? [on hold]

Carthage was destroyed by the Romans. The capital moved to Byzantium was started. f. Carthage was destroyed by the Romans. c. Roma put in place a decentralized government. The capital moved to ...
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### Fix protocol and Bars

I am newbie in fix protocol. I would like to know how I can work with bars (candles) in the fix protocol? I mean subscription to bars from client-side and what type of message I can use to send bars ...
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### Magrabe Exchange Option: not equal drifts

I need to calculate the price of exchange option between 2 assets $S_1$ and $S_2$ The formula is given here Wiki: Magrabe formula or here Quant Stack Exchange. In the derivation of the formula it is ...
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### Option greeks: sensitivity to 1% move

In a Black&Scholes framework how can I compute the following sensitivities: to 1% move in the underlying price to 1% move in implied volatility I would like the greeks to tell me how many ...
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### Question about “short” in this sentence

I was reading an article by David Stockman from (http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/take-cover-now-they-dont-ring-a-bell-at-the-top/). He uses the word "short" in a way I'm unfamiliar with. If you ...
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### Stock Price Evolution Equation Clarifications [closed]

What is the dimension of Δt? Is it second [s]? What are the expected return and the expected volatility? How can I calculate them for any given stock? Should I use the return and volatility values for ...
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### What is the most amount of money the consumer would be willing to pay to play take this gamble?

Suppose a consumer has log-utility over wealth, defined by $u(W) = \ln(W)$. Suppose this consumer has $100$, and is considering taking a gamble in which the consumer flips a coin, and gets $20$ she ...
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### Who is in debt when a bank investments in commercial paper? [closed]

If a company issues commercial paper and the bookkeeper, bank A, receives a buy order from bank B, in which bank B creates credit to buy the commercial paper, does the company has a credit in bank B ...
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### Where to get access to an inexpensive or free hedge fund/CTA DB?

Basically, the question is in the title. For some similar data: EDHEC provides some data and one can also get the Mutual Funds data from the Yahoo Finance:is there anything else out there? Thanks, ...
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### Is there a piratebay for data(bases)? (here, talking about historical financial data) [closed]

I would like to, for example, access (and later, upload), for example, historical financial data for the S&P500. If a piratebay for databases existed, maybe we could freely share information that ...
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### Market Data For Project

I'm looking to find a service that will allow me to download historical data on stocks, bonds, options, futures, indices, etc and also to pick up new files either on a daily or weekly basis. I've been ...
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### If I am very fast (less than 10 microseconds latency) what would be the first strategy to execute? [closed]

Let's assume I found the holy grail of low-latency trading (which I didn't). For educational purposes, what would be the first strategy I would direct my trading code?
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### What software should I use for forex arbitrage?

These are my requirements: Speed of lookup & update Speed of crunching large numbers and combinations The exchanges I want to connect to will mostly provide json feeds to their orderbooks & ...
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### Why is there no closed-form equation for XIRR?

Everything I have read about XIRR (e.g., as calculated in Excel) says that there is no closed-form equation and it must be calculated by iterated approximation. Could someone give a brief ...
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### Methods for distributing cash into allocation

Are there any methods/techniques that cover distributing cash into a specific percent of a portfolio asset class while gaining the best average price? As a simple example, a portfolio starts with ...
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### Convert returns into an index? [closed]

What's the right way to take a series of returns and convert it into a continuous index? Let's say I want to show the performance of a strategy starting from 1, and adding on returns so that I get an ...
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### Why do we need derivatives? [closed]

I read somewhere that derivatives are the biggest weapons of financial destruction. Why do we need derivatives? If exploiting risk-proneness of people to make profit is the goal, why don't we stop ...
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### How can foreign investment have a negative figure?

Just looking at http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/foreign-bond-investment Wondering how can foreign bond investment be negative? You can have 0 investment, you can have positive investment, but ...
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### Total number of currency transactions [closed]

All of the Forex volume/transactions are always reported in total dollar amount. I am interested in the number of individual trades. Where can I find this? Granularity doesn't matter, ...
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I have $2000 that I can risk losing. I'd like to get started with Forex Trading. Is there some place where I can open an account, get free API access, and write basic programs to play with the data? ... 1answer 474 views ### Trading Strategies and Portfolio Constructions based on Cross Sectional Regression? [closed] I often see trading strategies and portfolio construction that are based on cross-sectional regression. For example, I often see regressing some numbers against some factors. I was wondering how ... 1answer 141 views ### What's the disadvantage of ARMA-GARCH model? I want to ask why ARMA-GARCH is more and more popolar, and what's the advantage of this model. 1answer 339 views ### Interest only loan formula [closed] Forgive me I am not good at economics, I have following values. amount I want to lend. the current bank interest rate. the amount of years the loan will be for Please tell me the formula to ... 1answer 77 views ### if technical analysis rules for predict stock prices is unique for all cases, why should we learn neural networks? [closed] Is there any neural network out of the box tool that was already learned all technical rules by feeding many stock trading data? 1answer 213 views ### inflation > interest rate? [closed] Currently, the federal reserve interest rate is 0-0.25%, and the inflation is 2-3%. Does this contradict the no-arbitrage principle? (The arbitrage being: borrow money at 0.25% and invest it in the ... 2answers 205 views ### How to use mean-variance weights in practice (when going short is allowed)? [closed] I have calculated my optimal portfolio weights following the mean-variance framework where I go$w_1$in the risky asset and$1-w_1$in the risk free rate. I get the following result:$w_1\$ = 1.5, ...
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How I can solve the following Quadratic Programming Problem: Min[X’VX+X’GX] In this case, X is a list of coefficient to be solved for, V is a square matrix of Price returns, and G is a square matrix ...
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### Risk Neutrality Necessary for Dual Delta Calculation?

I have an option chain for a specific expiry date. Then calculate dP/dK numerically for each pair of strikes. My hunch is that this calculation is not risk neutral in the strictest sense of the word ...