# All Questions

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### Do companies' Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) change over time?

I am merging two datasets: 1) One which includes Reuters US companies' RICs and the number of news linked to each company; 2) Compustat US, taking data from 1996 to 2018. I have few questions: ...
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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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### What are some scenarios where trading a risk reversal makes sense?

I understand that risk reversal is a bet on the skew of the implied volatility curve. But when would one have a view on the skew of the curve? I understand that one can have a view on the underlying. (...
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### How to add Risks-Not-In-VaR (RNIV) to VaR under Basel III

I am trying to generate/prove the magnitude of the over-conservativeness of the regulatory VaR (internal models) under Basel III against what a more accurate VaR would be. However, I can't seem to ...
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### Problem in copula fitting

I have returns of 2 stocks: stock1 and stock2. And I want to fit pair copula. I use this libraries library(VineCopula) library(copula) then I select an ...
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### Best practice approach for computing beta

I was wondering how one should choose parameters such as "frequency" of returns (daily, monthly etc.), "time frame" (1 or 3 or 5 years of historical data etc), benchmark (same of the portfolio or the ...
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### Portfolio - Default Probability

Suppose we want to identify the frequency of default on a portfolio with a 1000 loans. In the independence case, each firm’s default process follows a Bernoulli distribution with parameter $p = 0.01$. ...
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### Approximation of portfolio VaR (after mapping) when Delta and Gamma both equal zero

As titled, I am having trouble estimating the VaR of a portfolio mapped as a function of a single risk factor $S$, in the form : $$V(S) = S^3 - 30S^2 + 300S + 150$$ with current value $S = 10$. $S$...
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### Relationship between Tracking Error and Beta to benchmark

Analyzing an indexed portfolio, can we say there is any relationship between ex-ante TE and Beta to benchmark? Tracking error is the volatility of the difference in returns between the portfolio and ...
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### Are Futures exactly Delta One?

Delta of Future is exactly one I thought. This post here, says otherwise. However, quoting John Hull again: $$f = \text{Value of Future contract} = S_{t=0} - K \exp(-rT)$$ where $S$ it the spot ...
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### API returning company tickers found in provided news article

I'm looking for a REST API that accepts a string containing a news article (example below) as payload and returns an array of company tickers (eg TSLA for Tesla) mentioned in the article. Example ...
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### Brownian motion from price-series, what is the time step?

If I assume a given empirical price-series is a brownian motion, I can estimate the drift and standard deviation as long as I know what the time step was when the process was 'generated'. But since ...
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### Is there any thing out there as a substitute for KDB?

thanks a lot for your discussions on the original post. following your suggestions, let me re-phrase a bit : kdb is known for its efficiency, and such efficiency comes at a terrible price. However, ...
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### Multi-factor model… forecasting stock returns

I have selected several useful factors for forecasting stock returns. These are statistically significant in sample and I have also done some out of sample forecasts with positive results. Does ...
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### Why no median-CVaR optimization for portfolios?

Question Since CVaR is a concept that can be applied to all probability distribution, even if they do not follow normal distribution, I thought CVaR should be more concerned with median, not the ...
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### Leverage constraints

I am trying to complete my project on Mean-Variance Leverage Optimization, and I have found lots of helpful advice on this forum. I wanted to ask you if you have some idea on how to implement a ...
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### How do you hedge with delta futures if payment is unsure?

A Czech company has a payable of 1,5 mil EUR that has got a settlement at the end of the current month and at the same time it is expecting a payment of 1,5 mil EUR at the half of the current month ...