# All Questions

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### Is it possible to graph the option price with respect to the greeks

Is it possible to graph a European option's price as a function of say, its delta? I've been wondering this since, for example, for a call, the option price is given by Se^{-q*t}\Phi (d_1) - ...
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### A model of macroeconomic phase

I have been pointed towards econometric models of the state, or phase, of the general economy. What I mean more specifically is that we can think of the economy as being ruled by a few models or data ...
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### Good stochastic volatility model

Im fiddling with estimation of stochastic volatility models and have build up a somewhat flexible framework using indirect inference. I would like to try and throw a lot of different continuous time ...
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### At what point does it make sense to start using a system?

This is an issue I've been struggling with for quite a while, and haven't found a satisfactory answer yet. The basic problem is this: Lets say you set up a black box system which gives you anywhere ...
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### How to the compute the formula of Kendall's tau (please see this formula)

I am trying to compute the kendall's tau, but when facing the formula below, I don't know why the second line is this. Could anybody help me to interpret the reason to me? Thanks very much!
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### Volatility clustering but (G)ARCH not good fit

I'm looking at a time series that appears to be white noise. The ACF/PACF are in the test bounds. Applying the Ljung-Box test for various (maximum) lags gives me high p-values (i. e. I cannot reject ...
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### Transform the American cash-or-nothing call into a linear complementarity problem for the diffusion equation

Transform the American cash-or-nothing call into a linear complementarity problem for the diffusion equation and show that the transformed payoff is g(x,τ) = be^[(1/2)((k+1)^2)τ+(1/2)(k−1)x]H(x), ￼￼ ...
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### Why is that maximizing stock value, under uncertainty, is a better option than maximizing profits?

I've been trying to access the papers that state that kind of problem, but most of them need payment for access and I am on a student budget. I know that maximizing profits=maximizing stock value in ...
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### Price of portfolio with target volatility

Consider the following: We have two assets, S1 and S2, and with each asset is associated a volatility, v1 and v2, respectively. Now let's say v1 < v2, and we want to create a portfolio of S2 and ...
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### Credit Spread - pricing Option and Fixed Income

hi how do you handle credit spread 1. For Option with Equity underlying 2. For Fixed Income/Bond I understand there're two options: a. Expected Loss from Probability of Default & Recovery Rate ...
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### Convexity of Portfolio Containing Eurodollar Future and Forward Rate Agreement

Assume an individual is a buyer, i.e., long, of one Forward Rate Agreement and a seller, i.e., short, of one Eurodollar Futures contract. Does the collective portfolio have positive or negative ...
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### Question about allocating value among different class in capital structure

I come across a task regarding alloation of value among different class in capital structure. I took reference from ...
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### America option early exercice boundary via Monte Carlo simulation

I am trying to calculate an american option price via the simulation of the early exercise boundary using the method presented in this document: Monte Carlo Method For pricing a put Option. I have ...
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### Sketching payoff diagrams- Straddle and Butterfly (when t tends to 0)

I want to sketch a straddle and a butterfly payoff diagram when t tends to 0. I have searched and have been able to sketch both a butterfly and straddle diagram but fail to proceed when t tends to 0. ...
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### Calculating the VaR from a GARCH(1,1) with Student-t innovations

I'm self-studying several questions on Ruey S. Tsay's teaching page. I'm experiencing some difficulty getting the correct answer for final exam 2013 Problem B Question 3. Given a Student-t GARCH ...
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### Nominative financial datas

For a study I am looking for financial datas about trades in double auction markets. It would typically be transaction history containing the name of the participant (buyers and sellers) and the ...
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### Where can I find ADF library in c#

Where could I find an ADF library or source code in c# for cointegration test?
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### Downloading Quotes in CSV format from Yahoo Finance - Beta symbol?

By using http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=STOCKNAME&f=I am able to download a CSV file, does anyone know what the symbol for beta is? It should go after ...
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### How to calculate tail exposure on a multi-product position

Let's say I have a position vector across five products: Positions <- c(40,-45,20,-32,17) How can I determine the "tail" exposure if my PCA model gives me the following loadings for the first ...
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### What are some different methods for calculating hedge ratios for multiple leg spreads?

I am looking for many different ways of doing this, and I want to compare the results I get among the different choices. I am going to be using close-to-close change data. Thanks.
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### Log returns vs. prices

I am currently working on a stat arb that is giving me a little bit of trouble. I'm under the impression that most stat arbs are going to use prices such that we can choose a ratio N such that: Price ...
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### Is there a Newey West like correction for overlapping data correlation estimates?

I already posted a related question a while ago but was unsure if I should post within the same question. I want to estimate mulitperiod asset return correlations and test if there are significant ...
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### How to determine the equiy interest of target company if there is circular ownership?

I would like to ask is there any way to determine the equity interest of target company if there is circular ownership. For example, suppose company A owns 50% of company B, company B owns 100% of ...
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### Backtesting with fundamentals

Recently I've read some books about quantative approach to fundamental investing: - What works on Wall Street - James O'Shaughnessy - Quantitative Value - Wesley Gray, Tobias Carlisle - Quantitative ...
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### Forward Yield curve for an arbitrary company

Let say I am analyzing a company XYZ. Credit rating for this company is BB. Now I need to have the 6-month forward Yield curve for this company. Can somebody help me how to find this information from ...
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### Detrending before cointegration

When checking for co-integration , is it necessary to detrend the time series? What is the best way to go about it?
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### Log returns vs Relativizing to Portfolio size of \$1

In a current empirical research project, I am tracking a non-parametric measure of a transaction cost. To this extent, I track this cost in two ways Cost in terms of log returns Cost in terms of ...
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### Minimum PD under Basel II retail asset?

I have been told that under Basel II the minimum PD that one can assign to any portfolio/segment classified under the retail asset class is 0.33%. But Google searches return nothing and I can't seem ...