# All Questions

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### Open source equity/bond index data

I have been using the tseries package of R (get.hist.quote) to get historical quotes for various indices from yahoo finance. I am interested in DAX, VDAX, EB.REXX ...
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### Non-contractual accounts behavioural study

I need to carry a non-contractual accounts behavoiural study for a bank. The objective is to estimate core/non core ratios and then bucket and ftp them. Any recipe where to start? I have 3yrs of ...
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### Market microstructure by Mark B. Garman (J. Financial Economicss 3, 257-275, 1976)

Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0304405X76900064 In Garman's inventory model, buying order and selling order are poisson process with order size = 1. Buying price and selling ...
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### Skewed Student t distribution MLE and Simulation

I have Financial LOB data and I feel that a skewed t distribution will fit best. I have a problem trying to find the parameters using MLE numerically since Matlabs built in function does not allow for ...
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### quantlib python : missing methods?

I'm reading Introduction to Selected Classes of the QuantLib Library I by Dimitri Reiswich and tries to "convert" it to Python. It seems to me that some C++ possibilities aren't available in python. I'...
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### Derivative: Delta of a Down and Out Call Option with Barrier=Debt(K)

I am trying to compute the derivative of this function with respect to V0: This is the price of a down and out call option, assuming the barrier equal to the level of debt K. In other terms, I need ...
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### x13 Arima analysis with negative values

I'm running x13 Arima analysis on a US GDP series to get the "trend" component. ...
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### Valuation Method for CASH in S.06.02 QRTs

Extract from the latest spec for C0150 (Valuation Method) of S.06.02: Identify the valuation method used when valuing assets. One of the options in the following closed list shall be used: ...
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### S0602 - whether to report Quantity (C0130) or Par Amount (C0140) for Money Market Funds?

We have several positions in a money market fund (CIC IE43) to report in the S.06.02 QRT, and we receive source data for both Quantity & Par Amount. These are actually identical. Which one ...
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I am looking for any reference where the following problem was addressed: given the list of trades of a trader teach an AI to replicate that trader's strategy. There are several well-known results ...
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### Help with amortisation table in Excel VBA [on hold]

I am a beginner with VBA. I am trying to create an amortisation table where the interest rate used depends on two inputs which will be provided by the user. For example if X=2; and Y=3, then interest ...
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### Reference for option pricing, binomial multi-period model using martingales and conditional expectations

The title basically says it all. I am looking for a reference text on the pricing of options in a binomial multi-period model. It should be mathemathically rigorous using martingales and conditional ...
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### Pricing foreign currency bonds - which approach is more theoretically “sound”?

You own a fixed rate corporate bond in foreign currency (let's say JPY). Your domestic currency is USD. Which of the these two approaches do you consider theoretically better? Discount JPY cash ...
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### Correlation of a lognormal asset and a normal asset

So if i want to calcualte the correlation between a pair of assets, my intuition is that i should calculate whatever correlation i plan on using; When we look at correlation, it's normally the ...
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Are there any free c++ libraries that would have some of the functions that would be used in developing a trading strategy. For instance, calculating drawdown, Volatility Forecasting, MAE, MFE....etc. ...
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### Calculating historical implied volatility

I know that each individual option has it's own implied volatility, but how do you go about calculating the overall implied volatility for an underlying? For example when someone sais the IV of a ...
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### Pricing a Vanilla swap between coupons; What rates to use?

Vanilla Swap question. Entered into a 5Y fixed for floating HUF swap. Fixed is annual coupons, Float is semi-annual coupons. 1 month later I want to price it. I set up my future values for Fixed ...
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### Risky duration formula for what kind of bond?

In a documentation, there is the following formula for "zero interest rate risky duration" of a bond: $\frac{1-exp(-s \cdot T)}{s}$, where $s$ is spread, $T$ time until maturity. What type of bond (...
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### R:log return calculation for panel data structure

I have a long form panel for hourly prices of stocks. I want to do log return calculation for this panel data structure. This is sample data: ...
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### How can extract parameters in the CIR model from data?

I want extract CIR parameters from monthly LIBOR data in the EULER-MARYAMA method in MATLAB languge. I find data but I cant extract parametrs form that! what is the process? what is the formula?
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### relation between asset's and equity volatilities - merton model

In terms of Merton credit risk model need to find the initial value of counterparty's assets and the volatility of the assets. Both value are not directly observable thus we have to approximate them ...
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### The Relation Between the Ricci flow and the Black-Scholes-Merton Equation

Grisha Perelman once wrote that The Ricci-flow equation, a type of heat equation, is a distant relative of the Black-Scholes equation that bond traders around the world use to price stock and ...
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### Online courses or C++ books combined with Finance (alternatives to Duffy and Joshi)

I am trying to find a book for our study group that teaches the bare minimum C++ needed for financial applications. I am trying to teach it in a project based manner. In case, I don't settle on one ...
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### Rblpapi complication [on hold]

So I have tried to install the package Rblpapi. It seems it is being installed correctly: ...
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### Python everywhere but where do they execute orders?

About every introduction I've read about automatic trading writes about how well python is suited for the task. But looking around, I've been able to find just one brooker, Oanda, which has a python ...
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### Drift irrelevance on high frequency data

Let's assume that price of a certain asset follows Brownian Semimartingale process with a drift term and a Brownian-driven continuous part (no jumps for simplicity). In literature it is often stated ...
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### Constructing Swap Curve from LIBOR

Say I'm considering a long maturity fixed rate swap, for instance 20 years paid semi annually. Now I want to find the fixed rate for this hypothetical swap. I understand that this fixed rate is going ...
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### What is Toxic FX Flow debate!

So, basically i want to debate and find out the real reason behind being flag by ECNs and venues as "toxic". How to avoid being flag? What kind of strategies are toxic and why? Below is an article ...