# All Questions

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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 ...
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### Mapping Futures Data Into Mantas

Can anyone please help me figure out how to map 'Futures Data' into Oracle Mantas. I believe 'Futures Data Feed' will have a different 'Format' from the one acceptable to 'Mantas' risk management.
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### Analysing FX Data

When analysing currencies, the data always comes in pairs so it is hard to normalise a multivariate time series of data e.g. if I have GBPvsUSD, EURvsUSD and CADvsUSD then changes in the US economy ...
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### UAC- Unbiased Average Correlation for a Matrix of stocks

Once I have computed a correlation matrix for a portfolio of stocks, how do I calculate the UAC for the correlation matrix? ie, how do I strip out any auto correlation among the names?
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### R or Matlab code for Multi-Barrier-Options (3 or more underlyings)

I am looking for R or Matlab code examples of multi-barrier-options (or multi-barrier reverse convertibles) with at least 3 underlyings. Do you have such code or can you point me to a place where I ...
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### Real value of small numbers of shares of company stock

What is the real value of a single share of company stock? Let's ignore the "the value is what someone is willing to pay for it" angle. At some point, there has to be a real inherent value to ...
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### fetch from yahoo! finance database - varying number of ticks

To test a model with real-life data, I used the fetch-function in matlab to connect to the database of yahoo! finance. My code to try and get 7 different assets' returns is the following: ...
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### CAPM in another currency — convert everything to the local currency?

I want to calculate annual excess returns on portfolios using monthly returns for a CAPM (for the assets in the portfolio as well as for the benchmark), in order to have more information on the ...
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### how to deal with assets with less information (shorter history) for a CAPM?

I want to calculate annual excess returns on portfolios using monthly returns for a CAPM (for the assets in the portfolio as well as for the benchmark), in order to have more information on the ...
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### retrospective or concurrent or forward-looking returns for CAPM?

I want to calculate annual excess returns on portfolios using monthly returns for a CAPM (for the assets in the portfolio as well as for the benchmark), in order to have more information on the ...
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### close form for stochastic integral

I am new to stochastic calculus. Can I know how to compute the close-form solution for $$\int_0^t \exp(\alpha s - \sigma W_s) \; ds$$ and $$\int_0^t \exp(\alpha s - \sigma W_s) \; dW_s.$$ I encounter ...
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### Fluid dynamics for order book depth modelling

Would someone be able to give me an idea what type of fluid dynamics I could look at for modelling the order book? My background is more signals-related maths (correlation, covariance, fourier etc). ...
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### Calculating order arrival times using log-likelihood, Raphson and Jacobian matrices?

I am reading the following paper: http://www.ntuzov.com/Nik_Site/Niks_files/Research/papers/stat_arb/Ahmed_2009.pdf and in particular page 13: Now I never did a degree in maths (I did ...
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### Question about bivariate equity/interest models

I am working on a little project and I need a bivariate model for interest and equity, I am also mostly interested in estimating the parameters in a physical measure setting. My main issue at the ...
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### How to make a historical index of a group of materials in which the set of materials changes every month?

The question may sound simple however for the moment it is a brainteaser to get it right, let me explain: the exercise is to be done on +/- 200 groups of materials (matgroups) one matgroup can ...
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### Simple EOD computations for tick data

As part of End-Of-Day calculations once a particular market/exchange has closed for all the tickers traded on that market one may typically compute the following properties: OHLC Bid/Ask Price ...
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### Can the equity premium puzzle be explained by volatility-induced financial growth?

Citing the paper Volatility-induced ﬁnancial growth (2007) by Dempster et al.: when asset returns are stationary ergodic, their volatility, together with any ﬁxed-mix trading strategy, generates a ...