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comment Software for decomposing structured products into plain vanilla products
@vonjd. Please, write my nick properly. What I can suggest - is that if you wanna the perfect fit, you have to consider only exotic payoffs which are piece-wise linear, so on any fixed interval they will have a slope. E.g. call option with a strike $K$ can be encoded as $(0,0,K,1)$ where first value - is a value for $S=0$, second value is a slope after $S=0$, third value is a point of new slope, forth value is a slope after that point.
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answered Risk neutral probability in binomial lattice option coming greater than 1…what's wrong?
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comment Software for decomposing structured products into plain vanilla products
@vonjd - I've edited my answer.
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comment Software for decomposing structured products into plain vanilla products
@vonjd - I don't want to hide anything - just I thought it can be more convenient to discuss it by e-mails.
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comment Software for decomposing structured products into plain vanilla products
@vonjd - it was clear. Ok, so we should talk about two questions which I left in my answer. If I can leave here my e-mail, or there are private messages?
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comment Software for decomposing structured products into plain vanilla products
I cannot get, how they can plot $\frac{169}{S}$ like a linear function. Edited: they even cover it with a put. Wow. It's a kind of magic. Edited: "This payoff exactly replicates the payoff of the structure." Indian mystery...
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comment Risk neutral probability in binomial lattice option coming greater than 1…what's wrong?
could you please five a reference to this formula in the literature? It seems that this is an approximation of probability in the sense, that it can be $<1$ only under some conditions, not always.
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comment Is statistical arbitrage on FX possible?
Random walk with jumps is meaningless. Random walks are for discrete time so they have only jumps.
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accepted Discrete-time model: stock dynamics