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How to fully replicate ADX + DI Indicators in Excel?

For black box testing, I was hoping that I could replicate the ADX + DI+ and DI- indicators that are provided in trading platforms such as ThinkOrSwim, ScottradeElite etc. However, I noticed that ...
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hedging an equity portfolio against an index

I am trying to run a simple back test on a M&A strategy. The idea is to buy the target company for the length of the deal and obviously hope to see a profit. The weight given to each deal is ...
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Position Strength: Leveraged vs. Non-Levered

Is there some sort of metric or formula for bull/long strength in a market based on % of shorts/longs on margin, and perhaps even the size of that leverage? I ask because I participate in BTC (which ...
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Which size of constant range bar gives the most persistent chart?

A constant range bar chart is like a candle chart, only the candles don't close after a certain amount of time (i.e. 30 min, 4 hours), but after a certain range (i.e. 5 ticks) has been crossed. So if ...
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Is it compulsory for feed to send orders/levels for particular symbol on same multicast line?

Multicast feeds have several lines some of which are dedicated for sending current order-add/modify/delete. Its is a implicit restriction that for a single security order-add/delete/modify will be ...
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How to display stock prediction results?

I'm not sure if this is a question for "Quantitative Finance" or "Personal Finance & Money" so forgive me if this one is irrelevant for this site. The Situation So I wrote a program (in vb.net ...
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How to compute return of a variance swap?

How does one calculate the investment of a zero initial investment asset, specifically a variance swap? In this asset the payoff is given by the difference between the realized variance in a certain ...
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Real-World Cash Account Implementation and Return

Often in financial math, the concept of the risk-free cash account, with return R, is invoked as an instrument for calculating prices - when constructing an option-replicating portfolio, for example. ...
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Negative Risky vs Negative Butterfly

I understand that in regard to FX options, a volatility smile with negative Risk Reversals is effectively indicating that the spot market for a given currency pair is in decline (puts over). In ...
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Chaikin Money Flow Persistence Formula

I am trying to create an approximation of the Accumulation/Distribution Rating using the Chaikin Money Flow Persistance indicator. I have the Chaikin Money Flow Formula as below, could anyone assist ...
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Difference between “basic risk” and “basis risk”

Returning to Futures contracts, basic risk refers to the risk remaining after the hedge has been put in place and essentially represents the difference between the Futures price – should the ...
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where to find historical option prices?

I have a dataset of options (traded in European exchanges such as NYSE Euronext) and I would like to find their price history. Where to find it? I see that ...
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forecasting crash time of KLSE index (1991-1994)

Price deviation = financial bubbles. i try to fit the following stock price index to predict recession. I couldn't fit the model with the data(Data are not available in yahoo finance for the ...
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How to construct a deterministic trading model based on a loess (local regression) model?

Given data that has been fit to a loess model, can you make reliable decisions on future trades given a good past fit? Has anyone here done so and can give an example of their use case? I am yet to ...
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Correlating random numbers seems to skew the data

First off, apologies for the cross-post from mathematics, but I found this site later and think it would be a better fit for the question (besides, there has been no comments/answers on mathematics ...
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Why use the E-curve as an interest rate benchmark?

EDSF or Eurodollar synthetic forward curve is used as an interest rate benchmark. Why? When should I use the EDSF "E-curve"? Any references would be extremely helpful.
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commodity futures pricing vs. underlying spot rates in volatile markets, at depth of book

Are futures contracts or their underlying spot rates, more or less efficient, at depth of market, with volatility? Say for example we have: 1 E7 (CME contract) = 62,500 euro Should the future or ...
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For Probability of Default in retail credit what is more popular logistic regression or GLM with Poisson distribution and why?

Trying to understand which regression model is more popular in retail credit card industry Logistic regression or GLM with Poisson distribution and why?
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Obtaining historical data of individual level predictions from prediction markets

I have been searching the internet but was unable to find data of the following form: prediction of events for which we already know the outcome (i.e. markets that have already closed) data for each ...
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Option payoffs and replicating payoffs

I've come across the below question which has no answers to it and I was hoping someone could provide some help. I know it quite a long question and I appreciate any help with this. An investment ...
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Kalman Filtering with Linear Restrictions

A question on this topic has been asked before: Combining a linear Kalman Filter with additional linear constraints? and I checked out some of the references given: ...
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calculation of parameters in Stochastic Volatility

I want to compare volatility models from constant volatility, implied, time-varying (ARCH, etc) and stochastic volatility. I can find the process to calculate constant, implied and ARCH and GARCH ...
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Stochastic Volatility for Stocks, FTSE

Can someone help me with calculating Stochastic Volatility (of stocks and options) using SAS or R or Matlab please? I am new to SAS and I am trying to use Heston model, White-Hull model or any other ...
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how to obtain the optimum debt-equity ratio while maintaining a minimum debt service coverage ratio of 1.1

the assumptions are -that the NOI for year 0 is 6500000 -loan term is 8 years and issued at a fixed rate of 3% + libor (in 2008) -equity yield is 15%
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Conversion of quarterly growth rate to annual growth rate

If a macro data like Consumer Price Index or Real GDP growth rate is expressed in quarterly year-on-year basis. Anyway to get precise annual growth without using approximations? For example: Cars ...
I am trying to use what I learned about multi-Factor Models to apply to some questions: Suppose investing 80% in Portfolio A -100% in Portfolio B 20% in risk free asset If $\hat{F_1}$, denoted by ...