# All Questions

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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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### Controling ex-post volatility by ex-ante limits

In the context of mutual funds the KID directive forces us to calculate 5 year ex-post volatility of a (market) fund (weekly returns). Thus each week we look back in the past and calculate volatility ...
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### Forex Fundamental Data Sources [duplicate]

What are the best sources to find free Forex historical Fundamental Data in a .csv format?
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### Need weighted global stock index data (components / weights)

To implement a portfolio generator, I require a set of suitable stocks. Ideally it would use the components of the MSCI World Index and use the index weights for the probability of picking a stock ...
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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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### 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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### 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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### full tick and retail tick data feed difference

Full tick institutional data feed like elektron from reuters, how is it different from retail tick data feed & which charting softwares work with elektron data feed
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### Engle Granger test returns a 0 in matlab, while correlation factor is .80+. Am I doing something wrong?

Engle Granger test is giving me a ans = 0. The correlation factor is: 0.8+ Does this imply the No cointegration hypothesis is true? i.e. as per my understanding that there is cointegration? I am ...
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### Significance of Data

The following is a result I get from a pair trading model. I am trying to figure out the significance of the below but failing. Can someone help me out i.e. a resource or possibly an explanation on ...
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### modelling with Meixner process

I failed to evaluate the integral of v(x)e^x over real numbers (i.e, from -infinite to +infinite) with respect to dx where v(x)=2d exp(2(pi+b)x/a)/abs(x)(1-exp(2pi.x/a)) for x<0 and v(x)=2d ...
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Given sales and profitability data for two time periods, how would I go about calculating the impact of price, cost, volume and mix margin % (bps)? I can do the analysis as a gross margin $bridge, ... 0answers 460 views ### 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 ... 0answers 74 views ### 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. 0answers 61 views ### 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 ...
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### Approaches to check/validate the output of an optimization algorithm

Let's say we want to optimize the a function $f(x_1,\dots, x_n)$ with $(x_1, \dots , x_n) \in \mathbb{D}^n$. For the sake of simplicity let $\mathbb{D}^n$ be the unit sphere. We chose an optimization ...
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### measuring the performance of round-trips on stocks

can you provide me with some ideas to assess the profitability of round-trips? That is when I buy 100 shares of IBM at 10\$and I resell them two days later at 11\$, how can I measure the profit made? ...
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### Copula Value At Risk

Let's suppose I have two asset in my portfolio. I want to compute Copula Value At Risk. Can you help me? This is the code I wrote: ...
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### How to calculate modeled asset volatility by industry factor?

Currently I am working with huge data frame which consists of a lot firms. For each firm in my sample I calculated asset volatility ( I am using Merton default probability model, so I have used 2 ...
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### What is the arbitrage opportunity in Arrow-Debreu One Period market Model

The one period market model is made of 4 securities(A, B, C, D) and has 4 future states. Assume the market model is complete. and the state prices are (-2, 2, 4, 8). Given that I dont know the payoff ...
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### swaps valuation

I am asked to solve the marking to market value(MtM) of a swap, unfortunely i´m having big troubles finding the solution, it´s a 5.5% (vs. LIBOR) 10-year swap, The notional is 500 mio USD and LIBOR ...
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### Stock Price Question

Can anyone show me how to answer this please? A stock has beta of 2.0 and stock specific daily volatility of 0.04. Suppose that yesterday’s closing price was 95 and today the market goes up by 3%. ...
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### Data feed for 10 year government bond yields [duplicate]

I am trying to access a data feed for 10 year sovereign bond yields for countries, say the G20. I have tried world bank and IMF data api sources but to no avail. The data feed is used to update an ...
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### How can I determine U.S. market capitalization percent using WFE data?

It seems that I should be able to readily compute U.S. market capitalization percentage of global capitalization using data reported from this page at the World Federation of Exchanges. How can I ...
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### Calculating the Sum of Squared Deviations between two Normalized Price Series

How can I calculate the sum of square deviations between two normalized price series according to (Gatev et. co 2006)? My normalized price series of stocks $X$ and $Y$ consist of the cumulative total ...
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### Step-by-Step PCA algorithm (checking correctness without math packages)

I would appreciate if someone could correct me if i am wrong in my suggestion. I am using PCA to : find measure of cointegration between selected assets find the eigenvector and its portfolio with ...
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### Rational expectation meaning

What does rational expectation (RE) mean in agent-based modeling context? What are the relationships between RE and expectation and outcome?
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### Where can I find monthly/weekly historical data for gold and silver [duplicate]

Preferably in monthly or weekly denomination, for at least 20 years. Preferably in Excel format, but csv, or other format is fine too. I try to google but couldn't find anything, maybe I just wasn't ...
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### VIX Future risk modeling [duplicate]

I am very new to VIX futures and need to validate the risk model for these instruments. Could someone help me with how i can calculate the volatility on these instruments. Thanks.
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### Under an EMM, does there necessarily exist a replicating portfolio?

In general, under an EMM, does there necessarily exist a replicating portfolio for every derivative? I believe the answer to this is false. A simple example is a discrete time, trinomial model. ...
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### BS Implied Volatility under Normal returns

If I use theoretical prices under a normal valuation model, and I estimate their implied volatility using BLACK SCHOLES implied volatility, do I'll get corresponding log normal volatility?
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### Need 24 hours a day real time/slightly delayed prices of futures contracts on US and non-US [duplicate]

I'm looking for a data provider to get real-time/slightly delayed data for futures contracts on US and non-US indexes 24 hours a day. Can you recommend anything for a person, who can't afford ...
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### Fair interest of mortgages

May be a stupid question, but I don't know the answer. Suppose someone asking me money for a mortgage for buying something. If I know the chance (mean value of payments and variance of payments) that ...
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### Java limitbook implementation? [duplicate]

I am looking to create my own front-end. What is the best data structure/java swing object to represent a limit order book? currently I am using two JTables and loading best bid and qty data from a ...
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### OF-B1 report - cell A1

Pretty basic question - what is the SIGN that should be used in cell A1 of the EIOPA Solvency II OF-B1 report? So should share capital be displayed with a positive or negative value? CP-13 extract: ...
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### Distinguish between market makers and other participants?

Are there any known quantitative techniques to distinguish between market makers and other participants? I manually MFT, have no knowledge of these specialties, and may be observing phenomena that ...
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### Is this usage of “M” and commas for a cash flow statement correct? [closed]

I recently was confused by a cash flow chart produced by a company I invest in. Each bar represents a monthly cash flow, but the values are confusing. For example, "3,012 M" is used on the most ...
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I am trying to download intra day stock data for some 7000 symbols using google url : ...
I need to calculate the dirty price of a US T bond given the below details: Assume the coupons on a U.S. Treasury bond are paid on January 1st and July 1st. The bond has a par of $1,000 and pays a ... 1answer 247 views ### the law of comparative advantage and exchange rate I'm reading Steven N. S. Cheung 's "Economic Explanation" (2001). In vol 2 ch 2 section 2, he mentions Comparative Cost, or "the law of comparative advantage". after quoting the britain/spain ... 0answers 373 views ### 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 ... 0answers 114 views ### The basic principle of the construction a portfolio of options I have a question like this. Assume today's date is 9 January 2016 and XYZ's share price stands at$10. On 8 November 2016 there is a Presidential election and you believe that depending on who is ...
this is CNY to US$this is HKD to US$ while below are the log differenced of both graph above you can see tha apparent similarity on the mid of graph i thought that they were managed by ...