# All Questions

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### Options on EuroStoxx Dividend Futures Data

Does anyone know where I could buy, scrape, or barter this data? Just need closing prices for each available strike going back as far as possible.
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### No-arbitrage and the sharpe ratio?

I'm reading a paper and it says that in a no-arbitrage market the sharpe ratio is the same for all bonds. I'm guessing that a difference in two bonds sharpe ratios would open the possibility of ...
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### Which Maximum Diversification Approach in MATLAB is correct?

I am currently trying to find the portfolio weights of the Maximum Diversification Portfolio and found two approaches which result in different outcomes. The first one is based on this paper:https://...
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### What's the difference between demand elasticity and demand volatility?

What's the difference between demand elasticity and demand volatility? Demand elasticity: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/demand-elasticity.asp Demand volatility: https://www.sdcexec.com/home/...
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### Philosophy of Financial Risk

Do you think that there exists a framework on that you can build risk measures? What are the necessary and desirable properties of a risk measure? (necessary means compulsory and desirable means more ...
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### Historical quotes / prices of multiasset options

I am working on Lévy copulas, and I would like to try calibrating such techniques on real data. Where can I find quotes for multi-asset options? It could be exchange options or any other type of ...
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### Modified Sharpe ratio

I would like to model different type of investors, hence I need to find some kind of utility functions to optimize. Apart from very abstract exponential utility function, I couldn't find any proper ...
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### Jump Diffusion Model - Volatility and Mean of Jumps

I am trying to understand the concept of jump diffusion model. So far what I've understood is that by adding a Jump parameter to a GBM (Geometric Brownian Motion) we can generate a Jump diffusion ...
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### stochastic volatility and smile

Can we say that the volatility smile contain for sure stochastic volatility information ? If yes why ? Saying that BlackScholes does not explain the smile does not necessary mean there is an ...
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### How to 'Decompose the volatility of IBM into systematic and idiosyncratic volatility.'

This is a past exam question for a second year University exam on Financial Economics and Capital Markets: Your investment portfolio consists of £10,000 invested in only one stock, IBM, with an ...
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### PCA predicted yield curve moves do not match (closely) realized yield curve moves

I have a need to set-up a methodology to decompose the x-day yield curve moves into its underlying (3) PCAs. Specifically, for an example, to generate the 1-day moves in the EUR-swap yield curve; ...
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### What's the difference between instantaneous forward rates and observable forward rates?

Source: http://docs.fincad.com/support/developerFunc/mathref/LIBORMarketModel.htm "In contrast to models that evolve the instantaneous short rate (Hull-White, Black-Karasinski models) or ...
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### Novikov condition for Vasicek process

Suppose that we have a money account $S^{(0)}$ with dynamics \begin{align} dS^{(0)}_{t} = r_{t} S^{(0)}_{t}\, dt, \end{align} where \begin{align} dr_t = a(b-r_t)\, dt + \sigma_{r} \, dW_t^{(0)}. \...
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### Definition of the field YAS_RISK for bonds on Bloomberg terminal

The Bloomberg terminal has the following definition for the field YAS_RISK (SP190): "Indicates the price sensitivity given shifts in interest rates." It does not specify, however, what currency is ...
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### Can a stochastic process be neither adapted to filtration nor previsible?

The idea behind the question arises from my intuition about the concepts of 'adapted to filtration' and 'previsbility'. If a process is adapted, it essentially means that the evolution of the ...
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### CDS Credit Default Swap PnL

I estimate daily pnl on a CDS position using the spread change times the CS01. However I would like to estimate the PnL for a longer trade that has gone from a 5Y CDS to a 4Y with associated coupon ...
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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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### Rationale for describing kurtosis as “peakedness”?

Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, many quantitative finance sources of information, including teaching resources such as CFA prep, persist in defining kurtosis as a measure of "peakedness." ...
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### Monte Carlo simulations in Python using quasi random standard normal numbers using sobol sequences gives erroneous values

I am trying to perform Monte Carlo Simulations using quasi random standard normal numbers. I understand that we can use sobol sequences to generate uniform numbers, and then use probability integral ...
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### How to calculate impact on portfolio with various asset classes

I was given a portfolio consisting of equities, commodities and high-yield bonds and respective weights. I also have correlation data of different asset classes and standard deviation of each asset. ...