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CAPM Model Required Return Calculations

In a CAPM model how would one calculate p given sigma, beta, and required return? How would one calculate beta given sigma and p. and how would one calculate required return only given sigma and p?
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Java Implied Volatility Solving with Newtons Method

Hi I am currently working on implementing my newtons method to guess implied volatility and I have the same code as you do. However, my vol result goes to infinity and I have not figured out why my ...
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How do I show that there is no tangency portfolio?

Question: Suppose that the risk-free return is equal to the expected return of the global minimum variance portfolio. Show that there is no tangency portfolio. A hint for the question states: Show ...
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Most-efficient/effective Incentive Scheme Design to Minimize Loan Default Probability

Here is an open-ended, hypothetical question regarding the optimization of a loan incentive scheme. Any and all suggestions/plans are welcome. Please ask any clarifying questions if you wish: A loan ...
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is there a limit on how many times i can access fxcm xml feed

i'm writing an python application that uses fxcm's xml feed. here is the link http://rates.fxcm.com/RatesXML does anyone know if there are limits on how many times you can access this data? right now ...
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possible to estimate if hard-to-borrow?

I'm building a low frequency US equity stat arb system. On any given day the system is long ~100 stocks and short ~100 stocks. It trades once a day at the open, and on average 4/5 of the portfolio ...
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How do I find the Sharpe Ratio?

Suppose I'm given two assets, x0, x1 and the stochastic discount factor m. How do I find m_p, then use it to compute Sharpe(R_p)? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Estimating the next tick movement in Chinese markets

I'm working on high frequency trading in the Chinese Futures market and I've been having a bit of trouble with getting orders to go through due to the lack of liquidity and large fluctuations. To ...
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Active or Passive strategy?

From my reading, passive portfoliomanagement means to replicate an index, active portfoliomanagement means to deviate from an index. Does that mean that e.g. rules-based investing is actually an ...
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Alternatives to CDSs for default term structure?

The CDS market seems to be drying up, funding&liquidity issues are now prevalent over credit, so other sources for default probabilities are needed. What else is commonly used to obtain a ...
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Cross-post on the prediction mean squared error of a model

In accordance with what discussed in the meta here I am cross-posting this question from cross-validated. Suppose my model is $y_t = \alpha + \beta t + \epsilon_t$ the l-step-ahead prediction is ...
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Consumer (Borrowers and Lenders) risk free curve

I was thinking about this topic: how to construct a "risk free" curve for the generic consumer. Imagine we want to price a debt security done by a private, lended by another private (say, normal ...
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SRRI calculation for absolute return funds

I am trying to understand the formula for calculating SRRI for absolute return funds described in ESMA's guideline CESR/10-673, and Richard's answer has been of great help (What does this formula (to ...
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How to implement Konno's Mean-Absolute Deviation Portfolio Optimization Model using LP methods in Excel

Konno proposed a LP method for portfolio optimization using the Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD)
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What is reliable data source for long term and short term capital gain distribution for funds?

The only source where I can find how the capital gains given out by funds is separated into long term and short term distribution is http://quotes.morningstar.com/fund/aqrix/f?t=AQRIX. It seems weird ...
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Exponential weighting of returns

I am looking for a procedure to compute an exponential weighting of returns given a half life parameter. I ran accross a wikipedia article, can I take it unchanged an assume N(t) is the return at ...
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Do you include negative changes in Working Capital in an uFCFF analysis?

I am running a uFCFF analysis for two different scenarios. In one scenario working capital goes down. Do I include this negative number in the "Change in WC" line? Wouldn't this represent that I am ...
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Stochastic Volatility in current market environment

Some price exotics with stochastic vol, some use other models such as local vol. What is the impact/advantage/disadvantage of using stochastic volatility in the current market environment? In other ...
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Are “American” option strategies traded OTC?

Is there such a thing as an American butterfly spread? For a European butterfly spread simply buying 1 put with strike price X+a, 1 put with strike price X-a and shorting 2 calls with strike price X, ...
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How to implement an Interest rate neutral strategy using options?

Intuitively one would think that investing equal amounts in an ETF such as TLT and an short ETF such as TBF (with some factor for the interest rate payout of the long fund) should result in a interest ...
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Correction factors for volatilities of smoothed returns

In An Introduction to High Frequency Finance (http://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-High-Frequency-Finance-Ramazan-Gen%C3%A7ay/dp/0122796713), the authors (on page 253) build a tick-frequency volatility ...
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Will a back month leg in call calendar lose value if underlying goes down

If I buy a call calendar and underlying drops 5%, the front month short call will get further out of money and will lose value, resulting in a gain since I am short the front month option. What about ...
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Exercise 2.2 from the book “The concept and practice of Mathematical Finance”

I am a newbie. Please help me understand how to resolve the exercise 2.2 from the book "The concept and practice of Mathematical Finance". The solution from the book says that our super-replicating ...
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Why does the OTM call sometimes have a higher theta than the ATM call?

In this AAPL option chain on Mar20 call options, the OTM calls have a slightly higher theta than the ATM calls. Why is this? Is not time value(and thereby time decay) supposed to be highest for ...
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Amortizing Bond QuantLibXL

I would ask if anybody knows how to do get the NPV of an amortizing bond with QuantLibXL in the most automated way. I found some solutions but are very close to a manual calc, say, pass the vector of ...
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Will implied volatilities rise by same amount across time and across strikes in lieu of an earnings report or a news event

It is said that implied volatility of an option rises leading up to an earnings report or a pending news event like FDA trial, a possible takeover,elections(?) etc. My question is, implied volatility ...
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Reducing multicollinearity in Arbitrage Pricing model

I am working on a test example where the idea is to come up with a model that predicts S&P500 returns using the 9 S&P subsectors(XLY,XLP,XLF,etc) as FACTORS.Now i know there exists ...
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Calculating the optimal portfolio for an investor with quadratic utility

The problem is from Asset Pricing and Portfolio Theory by Back and can be found here. The relevant info from section 2.5 can be found here. Given that we have the Expected value and the variance of ...
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Self-financing strategy in the Hull-White bond model

I am having troubles with solving a particular problem concerning the self-financing portfolio in the Hull-White model (dr={phi(t)-ar}dt+sigmadW). Consider an expiry-T_0, Strike-K cll-option on a ...
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Finding optimal ewma and number of periods usedas features in a time series regression

I am using an exponential moving average (ema) to smooth the return of a price time series. I then want to use the last n periods (features) as the independent variables of the time series to predict ...
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Adjusting simple volatitly for a VaR calc

I'm reviewing a VaR estimate adjusting a simple annualized volatility to an unwind period of x days - in this case for an equity position, using the following formula for a given annual volatility : ...
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Suppose that you have a portfolio whose composition is uncertain. If you regress the portfolio returns on known factors (e.g., Fama-French 3-factor), can you use the loadings to determine (in general) ...
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Good Exam FM book for Stocks

I am currently studying for the actuarial exam FM and I just took the practice online exam. Unfortunately I am at a 60-70% level and I would like to get that to at least an 80% by April. I think I ...
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Complicated American style option contract with numerous non-standard features (simultanous exercise, additional premium, etc.)

I want to value the following contract for times $0<t<T$, i.e. determine $V(t,\cdot)$ where $\cdot$ refers to all other dependences (strike, spot, volatility, etc.). The contract is long and ...
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When the two time series with different length, how could we analysis them with a bivariate GARCH model?

At this moment, i need to do the analysis of rouble/us dollars exchange rate and the stock market index in Russia, I prefer to do that in a multivariate GARCH model. However, I have a question about ...
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How to calculate probability of option expiring in the money?

Given the following values ...
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Historical data for Canadian exchanges and mutual funds

There are scores of posts on obtaining historical data for many of the big exchanges, but for some reason there is a gap in sourcing historical data for Canadian exchanges. Short of Yahoo Finance and ...
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What is the difference between generating portfolios on the efficient frontiers and generating different efficient frontiers

This question is bothering me for a while. We suppose a very simple and basic set up. Given are a certain amount of assets from which we want to build an portfolio in an "optimal sense". MPT gives us ...
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How to get get weekly returns from daily data

Good day I would like to get weekly returns data from daily data , I want to use the Wednesday-to-Wednesday approach – the returns (rt) are computed from the Wednesday closing prices Pt , i.e., rt = ...
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Fund Allocation Logic

I am writing a program which automatically calculates the trade allocations. Imagine we have a 3 funds, Fund A, B and C. They current asset allocations (so-far-percentages) are 10%, 20%, 70% ...
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Standardized Abnormal Returns

I have a question. In an event study, I have found a standardized cumulative abnormal return Z test formula. It is attached. I couldn't find any sources to prove it. Do you know any articles about ...
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Implied Vola from historical option prices

I have daily Close data of ODAX-options, obtained from ivolatility.com. One third of the daily data shows premiums that are just above the inner value. Even when inserting an implied vola of almost ...
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Greenplum database storage model for time series data

I have to deploy a greenplum database for analysis of time series data. I will have around 50 different time series (s1,s2,s3,...s50) and each series will have multiple pairs (time is 1 hour average ...
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Copula and Correlation

I am intending to use the copula distribution to generate a transition matrix for credit ratings. However, I am not sure exactly what correlation matrix to use. Can anybody help me
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A few basic questions on bonds, yield and derivatives?

I am fairly new to these subjects and direly in need of some basic answers about yields, bonds and derivatives. Please forgive my lack of financial knowledge and poor English. 1- What is the ...
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Real time data map about the amount of a currency that are held in the world ?

Where can I see in real time data about the amount of a currency that is held in central banks (and maybe other significant places) ? A map would be great. I would like to know if there is an ...
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calculating share price from dividend discount model

I am trying to calculate dividend as per dividend discount model for titan company limited (india). Calculations: Cost of Equity: Now, As I have done calculation as shown above (formula on top ...
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VIX For Convertible Bonds

Is there something similar to the VIX but related to the convertibles bonds market in the U.S. ? Thanks, Max.