# All Questions

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### Linear Interpolation around End of Month (EOM) for IRS with standard rolls

I have a USD IRS S/A v 3M LIBOR with the following dates: Effective: 30th April 2018 Maturity: 28th April 2028 (Rolls day of month = 28) Therefore stub period runs from 30th April 2018 to 28th July ...
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### How to find out where a public company spends money?

Occasionally I will see articles about how Company X spends x dollars on A, and Company Y spends y dollars on B. Here is an ...
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### A quick and dirty loss distribution and Credit VaR

I need to create a loss distribution for a credit portfolio as the first steps to estimate the portfolio Credit VaR. I have historical monthly account snapshots (payment history) of all accounts ...
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### Calculate the implied loss rate on a loan, given the interest charged

My bank has a retail credit portfolio of 100 million in loans. I know the payment history,balance history of all these loans since inception. Are there any tools to calculate an expected loss, a loss ...
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### Simulation of Stochastic Volatility with Correlated Jumps (SVCJ) price paths

I am trying to simulate price paths for Monte Carlo option pricing of the Stochastic Volatility with correlated jumps model as presented in Dufffie et al.(2000), Eraker et. al. (2003) and Eraker (2004)...
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### How to hedge x gamma in callable prdc?

How do you hedge the short rates - fx cross gamma in a callable PRDC (Power Reverse Dual Currency note) ?
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### American look Back Option (put)

Hello everyone I'm having some trouble calculating the value of an american lookback put option using any other method but "similarity reductions", if you could kindly describe such method or provide ...
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### Calendar roll terminology (buy vs sell)

I am trying to get the direction/terminology correct in futures calendar trading. Let's say I have two calendar futures contract where the prices are 100 and 102 reflecting the front and back ...
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### pricing deliverable vs non-deliverable fx forwards

I am trying to link these two questions together Pricing a regular FX forward This is a contract (say USD vs JPY) where you exchange 2 currencies at maturity at a pre-determined rate, while no ...
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### How is a LIBOR Market Model volatility skew determined?

LIBOR based interest rates are derived from the prices (supply / demand) of swaptions, caps and floors. These prices are generally quoted in yield vols. Their prices are given by the Black formula. ...
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### Temporal aggregation of daily implied volatilities

Suppose I have a time series of daily implied volatility values for a given month and I am interested in calculating the monthly implied volatility for that month. What would be the most theoretically-...
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### Risk Measure-identication

Let X be a variable with existing moment generating function $M_x(z)=E[e^{zX}]$. Define the following risk measure: $\rho_{\alpha}(X)=inf_{z>0}(z^{-1}ln(\frac{M_x(z)}{1-\alpha}))$ Does anyone know ...
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### Distribution of portfolio values with constant spending rate

If your portfolio is invested in an asset that follows a geometric Brownian motion, and you withdraw a constant dollar amount at the beginning of each year, is there an approximate analytical ...
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### Solving for Implied Volatility Vega gets stuck at 0 (Python)

So my goal is to calculate option greeks with as few manual inputs as possible. I managed to get the IV for at the money options but then when I try further OTM strikes my results get completely ...
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### Calculation of Bond returns

Given that I have a portfolio of High yield bond with USD 50. Duration : 5 years and Spread duration: 5 years CSI BARC Index (Barclay US Corp HY) is as below for the last 30 years. USGG10YR Index (...
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### How to implement an investment strategy in MATLAB? [closed]

Since I`m a total novice in MATLAB I am struggling with a question that might be not even really hard. I have to implement and backtest 4 heuristic investment strategies but literally no idea how to ...
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### Scenario Analysis - Real life application

Given a portfolio consists of Stock = usd 40, Bond = usd 40, commodity =usd 20. Also given the correlation between these assets. Scenario 1 : stock down by 30% When performing scenario analysis, do ...
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### What is needed in Brownian Motion [closed]

What data is needed for Brownian Motion? I’m currently having an dummy firm, and want to simulate stock market using this dummy firm and firm data. How can I proceed this ? Edit: I have a simulated ...
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### serial correlation and CUSUM results

I have the following CUSUM test resulted from autoregressive distributed lag models (ARDL). Does the CUSUM results show that the model is stable? I am a bit confused because the red line in CUSUM ...
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### Is there an inverse relationship between (future-spot) price and yield?

If the difference between futures and spot prices rises will the yield for the current bond increase as well?
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### DeMark Indicators

Would anyone know of a library in R that handles DeMarkindicators. Just wanted to check-in with the community before I invested a whole lot of time reinventing the ...