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Managing Bloomberg logins in a campus library [closed]

In a campus library or other public place, typically many people share the same PC with the Bloomberg terminal software. Is there a way to prevent users from creating new logins? Is there a way to ...
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Different stocks with the same stock code [closed]

Is it possible to have different stocks with the same stock code on different stock exchanges.
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Martiglale and Brownian Motion [closed]

Stock market has been model as a random walk with a drift. Since it has a drift(bigger than zero) it is not a "Brownian Motion" but it still a Martingale? Is Stock market a Brownian Motion? Is it a ...
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Two assets with the same mean and standard deviation - Would there be any benefit? [closed]

If I have two assets in a portfolio with the same standard deviation and mean and the correlation between the assets is 0, theoretically could there be a situation where it would be beneficial to ...
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What does “percent of change” mean? [closed]

Whenever a price is changed, you can find the percent of increase or the percent of decrease by using the following formula: \frac{\text{percent of change}}{100}=\frac{\text{change in ...
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Order book depth views preferences: order-by-order vs. total aggregated volume by price levels

Which is best? Or is it irrelevant? Hi! Considering Level 2 Data (Market Depth), I want to understand the advantages to have all the order book on an order-by-order basis (or tick-by-tick basis) ...
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How to look for fractals/harmonics patterns in time series?

I want to build trading systems based on two things: 1)Fractal Theory 2)Harmonics Pattern I have read the book : The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence By Mandelbrot ...
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Proxy for a trigonometric angle function [closed]

You can't calculate an actual/real angle with the sine function with discrete market data. I need a substitute value for inputs that require an angle value. If you're only calculating the angle ...
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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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Modified or Macauley Duration in python

are there any existing python modules that can calculate Modified and/or Macauley Duration of a bond.
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Interest Rate Swaps on Mortgages [closed]

Is it possible to get interest rate swaps on mortgages? If not, why not? Are there models that describe this? Any direction would be great.
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DCF Zero Coupon Bond

Using a 30/360 day count what is the exact formula to discount this single zero coupon bond? ...
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How to test the efficiency of Exponential Moving Averages as a trading startegy? [closed]

I would like to know how I can test the efficiency of Exponential Moving Averages when it comes to forex trading. Can i have any papers that point to the efficiency of this strategy? Thank you. :)
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How to get a Quant Job [closed]

At the end of the academic year I will graduate with a Computer Science degree (hopefully) and I would like to peruse a career in quantitative finance. What is the dest way of doing this? Is it worth ...
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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 ...
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Computing the 2-year swap rate [closed]

I have some problems in finding the answer to this question, as I get a result that is completely different. The question asks: 'The 3 mth LIBOR curve derived from the EURODOLLAR futures market is ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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What is (High-Low) and (Open-Close) spread? [closed]

Spread is the difference between Bid and Ask. I'm confused what is High-Low Spread and Open-Close spread?
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Show that convexity of call price as a function of the strike is violated [closed]

European call options with strikes 90, 100 and 110 on the same underlying asset and with the same maturity are trading for 22.50, 18.84 and 13.97 respectively. show that the convexity of the call ...
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How to annualize log returns? [closed]

I have daily log return from 01.01.2011 to 10.28.2011 and I'd like to compare the total return of that 10 months period (which is of -7.093%) to annual log returns of previous years. I know it's ...
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Is there an API to perform request about stocks and financial derivatives? [closed]

Is there an API to make a request such as: all the companies which thier P/E ratio is greater than 50 ? I know I can crawl google finance and have it locally on my ...
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Does YTM represent interest? [closed]

Does a bond's Yield to Maturity represent the amount of interest one gets at maturity even though it's expressed as a percentage? I read that it is a rate of return on a bond at maturity, but what is ...