Questions tagged [financial-engineering]
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Can an individual hedge inflation that exceeds CPI-U?
Is there a way for an individual (i.e., excluding institutional tools and using only consumer products) in the U.S. to hedge inflation over the long term greater than that measured by CPI-U? ...
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Credit default swap replication by corporative bonds
I want to get literature or information related with the topic of CDS replication for those counterparties that do not hold. But that have traded bonds (with different degree of liquidity). What could ...
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Pre-requisites for Finance Mathematics
I would like to pursue research in the areas of Financial Mathematics. Hoping to look into Operations Research, Risk Management and Stochastic Modeling. Anyone got some suggestions on useful resources ...
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Paper recommendation with examples
Could you please advise me some papers/working documents with applications mainly focused on Fixed Income/Financial Engineering (Numerical Methods) as the one in the link below? Preferably on Matlab, ...
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To what extent are Lévy processes used in financial engineering?
I know that (time changed) Lévy processes are actively researched in the academic world, including tools such as minimal entropy martingale pricing measures and fast Fourier transforms.
To what extent ...
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condition of risk neutral pricing
The theorem says if $U$ is a numeraire and let $\mathbb{Q}^U$ be the corresponding measure. Then for every tradable asset $S$, the relative price $S_t/U_t$ is a martingale under $\mathbb{Q}^U$. But I ...
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continuously compound forward rate formula
I want to derive the continuously compound forward rate formula according to FRA.
fixed rate is $K$ and notional is $N$, $\delta=T_1-T_0$.
$t<T_0<T_1$, the FRA holder at time $T_1$ need to pay ...
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Utility functions, are they used in the real world by hedge funds, banks, etc?
I am starting to study mathematical finance. When I studied microeconomics and macroeconomics I studied utility functions, but I never saw how they are in the real world. I do not see how they can be ...
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Pricing methods in the real world when there is more than one free arbitrage price
Perhaps this question sounds trivial and obvious, but I am starting to study this new field. When we are in a complete market without arbitrage opportunities there is only one risk-neutral martingale ...
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How to Calculate Stock Return with Stock Bonuses and Rights?
I would appreciate if you could let me know how to calculate stock return for a given company when the company issued bonus shares and rights.
If company just paid dividends, stock return would be:
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Determine the right order size with market making strategy
In a market market strategy https://web.stanford.edu/class/msande448/2017/Final/Reports/gr4.pdf, how can we determine the right order size? Assuming I use a market making strategy and on a specific ...
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Negative VaR equivalent Volatility (VEV) and its meaning?
Can a VaR equivalent Volatility (VEV) as defined by KID/PRIIPS law be negative and what does it mean if it has a negative value?
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European Call Option Modelling under 2 factor Hull White interest rates
I have modelled the yield curve through the two factor Hull White Model. Now I want to implement in Matlab the price development of a ATM-Call-Option (European).
Has someone an idea how to combine ...
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Funded equity collars and margin loans
There is an article in the Financial Times today concerning equity funded collars [1]. The equity collar structure is used by a counterparty $A$ which wants to build up a position in a stock $S_t$. ...
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What is martingle measure with risk free asset in numeraire or stock price in numeraire [closed]
What is martingle measure with risk free asset in numeraire or stock price in numeraire
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Modelling interest rate
Hi I want to model two stochastic integrals in Matlab, which is given by
$ x(t) = x(s) e^{-a(t-s)} + \sigma \int_s^t e^{-a(t-u)} dW_1(u)$
$y(t) = y(s) e^{-b(t-s)} + \eta \int_s^t e^{-b(t-u)} dW_2(...
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CAPM and factor modeling: Machine learning
Excuse my ignorance with this I am still trying to wrap my head around the interpretation of the Fama French 1992 factor paper.
I come from a computer science background but I am interested in ...
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eurodollar future
I just found out about eurdollar futures and I am confused.
A eurodollar future contract is defined as a cash settled future based on a Eurodollar Time Deposit having a principal value of USD $1,000,...
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Is there a mathematical way of showing the slowing down of economic markets?
I'm currently taking a introductory mathematical finance course in university and recently on the news (BBC, etc), it states that the economic markets are shown to be slowing down for the next few ...
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stochastic modeling and machine learning [closed]
For a little bit of background, I've been studying stochastic calc and a few of it's applications (currently I'm still at the early stages of learning applications) and have been curious as to whether ...
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python: How use the S&P 500 index to predict japan stock,namely timezone issue
I want to use American stock index, such as S&P 500 index(open, close...) to predict japan stock daily close price or other with machine learning. I found that there is timezone between japan and ...
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Can someone suggest some good reads on OAS and Spread Duration?
I have been through the CITI Yield book paper and the OAS by Barclays. Is there is anything else that tackles this topic?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers!
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Why is shorting (oil) futures a bit of a negative gamma trade?
From this article, http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-22/oil-speculators-have-never-been-long,
"I get what you're saying about the price risk which is always the danger of shorting crude oil it's ...
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How to price a quanto basket option?
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Maybe there is no way to get explicit solutions for basket options (maybe the Black-Scholes differential equation can't be solved directly ??).
Q3: How do you price and hedge ( S1(T) + S2(T) - ...
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Step by Step Guide to Learn Quantitative Finance [closed]
Can some one help in creating step by step guide to learn Quantitative Finance?
The suggestions should be in the lines of
1- Which Maths topics needs to be learn 1st
2- Which Maths Books or ...
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For discrete models, the existence of strong arbitrage is equivalent to a particular self-financing strategy
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This question is from Lectures on Financial Mathematics: Discrete Asset Pricing.
Question:
Prove that for discrete models, the existence of a strong arbitrage is also ...
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All martingale measures price the attainable claim equally
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This question is from Lectures on Financial Mathematics: Discrete Asset Pricing.
Theorem 3.2 First Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing - Suppose $\nu$ is any measure such ...
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Where can I find ideas for strategies? [closed]
Every book I read refers me to many other books, there is practically no way I can read all this text in my life time. Once and for all, where is the best place to fish for ideas?
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Show that there exists a fully invested portfolio such that the covariance between their returns is zero
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I came across this question in chapter 2 of Active portfolio Management by Grinold and Kahn. It pertains to the efficient frontier which is displayed below:
Question:
If $...
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What is the value this “special” forward contract at maturity?
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I am not sure this is relevant:
Terminal value pricing:
If the derivative $X$ equals $f(S_T)$, for some $f$ then in the value of the derivative at time $t$ is equal to $V_t(...
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Simple simulation model of bond plus cash returns
Is there a robust way to model 'bond plus cash' simulated returns, say in Excel, for an asset allocation problem between stocks vs bond plus cash?
For equity, ...
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If there is an inconsistent pricing strategy then by defintion we have strong arbitrage
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An Inconsistent pricing strategy is a self financing strategy $\phi$ with $V_T(\phi)= 0$ and $V_0(\phi) \neq 0$
A strong arbitrage is a self-financing strategy $\phi$ with $...
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How to prove we have a $\mathbb{Q}$-Brownian motion?
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This question comes from the book Financial Calculus by Baxter and Rennie. WE start with looking at the marginal of $W_T$ under $\mathbb{Q}$. We need to find the likelihood ...
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Do we have a Brownian motion
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The process $W = (W_t:t\geq 0)$ is a $\mathbb{P}$-Brownian motion if and only if
i) $W_t$ is continuous, and $W_0 = 0$
ii) the value of $W_t$ is distributed, under $\mathbb{...
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Showing the discounted stock is a martingale
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This question follows from here
It is tempting to write $$V_0(X) = \beta\left[\left(\frac{\beta^{-1}S_0 - S_1(d)}{S_1(u) - S_1(d)}\right)X(u) + \left(\frac{S_1(u) - \beta^{-1}...
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Law of One price and the Inconcistent pricing strategy
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A market satisfies the Law of One Price if every two self-financing strategies that replicate the same claim have the same initial value.
An inconsistent pricing strategy is ...
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Formula for conditional expectation. Related to the Fundamental Theorems of Asset Pricing
Let $\lambda$ be a probability measure on $\Omega$ (finite), with filtration $\{\mathcal{F}_t\}$. Define $\nu(X) = \lambda\left(X\frac{d\nu}{d\lambda}\right)$, where $\frac{d\nu}{d\lambda}$ is a ...
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Verifying value of claim as an expectation
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We have so far taken the bond B to be deterministic for simplicity, but some reflection shows that this is not in any way necessary. Everything works out the same way with a stochastic ...
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How to understand nonrandom/random process in Shreve book? [closed]
I have been reading Chapter 4 of Shreve's Stochastic Calculus for Finance II.
It is easy to understand the simple process, $\Delta(t)$, defined on Page 126, which is just a constant inside a given ...
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Compute the risk measured by the standard deviations $\sigma K_1, \sigma K_2, \sigma K_3$, does this have to do with weights?
Compute the risk measured by the standard deviations $\sigma K_1, \sigma K_2, \sigma K_3$ for each of the investment projects, where the returns $K_1, K_2$, and $K_3$ depend on the market scenario:
$$...
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Books on financial instruments?
Can you please tell me some good books to learn in detail about all financial instruments available in the market today ?
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Need help understanding basics of cash flow engineering
I'm studying Financial Engineering, a subject I'm completely new to.
I'm using Principles of Financial Engineering 3rd Edition and trying to solve the exercises ...
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What is some book that is complete and easy but hard enough to serve as prerequisite for asset pricing and portfolio choice theory?
What is some book that is complete and easy but hard enough to serve as prerequisite for asset pricing and portfolio choice theory by kerry back?
I wonder how come a beginning graduate textbook is so ...
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Why there are almost no book for revenue analytic?
Why there are almost no book for revenue analytic?
By revenue analytic, it is meant to be predicting the revenue of a firm in the future
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Annuities problem
First problem is like this:
loan amount: 20,000,000.00
First six months: There is no payment but there are interest (grace period)
Next six months: payment of 600,000.00
Since 13 month: payment of ...
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Financial Mathematics essay topic
I have a mathematics background and I am currently doing a Masters in Financial Mathematics. I am required to write an essay in a financial mathematics area but I have little knowledge about it since ...
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Feature Selection Effect on Deep Multi-Layer-Perceptron for Financial Applications
I am trying to build a machine learning system for financial price prediction.
I am using a 3 layer MLP (a deep network) with 3 outputs (buy,hold,sell).
I am using different features such as price ...
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Difference between Total Long Term Debt and Net Total Long Term Debt
What is the difference between Total Long Term Debt and Net Total Long Term Debt?
Below you can see a picture revealing that they are not equal.
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Use of Girsanov's theorem in bond pricing
Assume that we want to calculate the time $t=0$ price of a bond:
$B(0,T) = E_P[\exp(-\int_0^T r_s ds)]$,
where $r$ is the interest rate following the SDE
$dr_t=k(\theta-r_t)dt+\sigma dB_t=b(r_t)dt+\...
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Itô diffusion processes in finance with unknown distribution at a terminal value
In several papers it is argued that for many Itô diffusion processes,
$$dX_t = a(t,X_t)dt+b(t,X_t)dB_t,$$
in mathematical finance the distribution of $X_T$ for fixed $T>0$ is unknown, which makes ...
