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Proper maturity in the Merton's model

I am working on a credit rating project using Merton's model. Basically it adopts Black-Scholes that equity value can be viewed as a call option with a strike price of face value of debts. Since the ...
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How modern portfolio theory(MPT) and CAPM are related?

1. Question In what sense Capital Asset Pricing Model(CAPM) is related with Modern Portfolio Theory(MPT)? Why do we need to check whether the current price of assets is overvalued or undervalued ...
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Volume or Dollar bars vs. volatility normalized and demeaned financial time series

In his book - Advances in Financial Machine Learning, Marcos Lopez de Prado familiarises the reader with a number of ways of normalizing our financial time series data. Below I provide a couple of ...
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Calculating beta when holding market portfolio

Suppose that CAPM holds and that you hold a portfolio of the market portfolio and the risk-free asset with weights equal to 0.74 and 0.26 respectively. What is the beta of your portfolio? My ...
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calculation of daily risk free rate?

I need to get daily risk free rate to measure my Capital asset pricing model. However, I am still confused on which proxy to use for that (my sample comprises German stocks). Some empirical studies ...
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Quantitative Math required for Market-making?

I understand there is an awful lot of Quantitative Math required for statistical arbitrage/algorithmic trading. However, would someone "in the know" be able to tell me whether there is less ...
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VXX Put pricing

Last week at Friday's close, the Dec 14 37.5 Put options were selling for \$.68 with VXX at \$40.29. This week at Friday's close, the Dec 21 37.5 Put options were selling for \$.38 with VXX at \$40.50....
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What do I call the combination of two or more prices when doing arbitrage?

Suppose that I’m doing forex arbitrage between multiple currencies. A possible arbitrage strategy is to combine the currency prices in pairs and then evaluate if there is a chance to make a profit. ...
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Morton Asset Volatility after Taxes

I'm writing a paper on Debt Covenants and I'm looking at the Asset Substitution Problem. I was thinking about looking at asset risk deltas before and after issuing, namely ß Unlevered and the Implied ...
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CVA of Payer v/s Receiver Swap

Why is that the CVA for a Payer swap more than that of Receiver swap for an IRS?
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Rolling Winsorization for Time-Series

I'm running a multivariate time series analysis and need to deal with some outliers. I'm thinking about using a rolling winsorization (e.g., pull anything above 99.5 percentile and replace with the 99....