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parameter in FixedRateBondHelper of quantlib

I'm working with 10 bonds with different maturity and want to get the zero curve. I tried the quantlib. However, I cannot understand the parameter in FixedRateBondHelper. Here is my code: ...
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concept of return for assets which don't have a well defined price

Much of financial theory seems to assume that assets have a price, for example the concepts of return or volatility. Is there some way to operationalize these concepts for assets which don't have a ...
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Calibrating Short-Rate Models to Eurodollar Futures Prices via Monte Carlo

I have a short rate model specified in the risk-neutral measure $Q$ defined by the continuously compounded money market $\beta(t)=e^{\int_0^tr(u)du}$. I'd like to calibrate this model to a set of ...
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Tailing the Hedge for Minimum Variance Hedge Ratio (Hull, 10ed)

I am an amateur reading Hull's Options, Futures and other Derivatives. I have encountered an issue similar to the one here: How to tail a hedge? (Question 3.26 from Hull, edition 10). The author ...
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Local v/s global calibration for a Bermudan Option (calibrate co-terminals vs entire matrix)

I am quite new to rates modeling and I have a question on the pros and cons of calibrating to larger set of vanilla instruments v/s calibrating to an exotic's 'natural' hedges. For example, I could ...
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Heath–Jarrow–Morton under real-world measure

In HJM model (framework), the drift of the forward is determined by its diffusion coefficient: $$\mu(t,s) = \sigma(t,s)\int_t^s \sigma(t,v)^Tdv$$ My understanding, is that the change of measure ...
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Daily to Monthly Performance Attribution - Getting Effects to equal the Excess Return

I am building a performance attribution tool on Python to help us understand the asset allocation, stock selection effects of our fund. We are using daily price data for each component within the ...
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market implied rate

today's 3m usd libor (US0003M) is 0.3625% 6m usd libor (US0006M) is 0.5484%, so from here, the implied 3m USD libor 3m forward is about 0.73%, today's EDU0 quote is 99.71 (implied 0.29% ...
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Pre-requisite math books, to the pre-requisite math needed to become a front desk quant

This question is about the pre-requisites to the pre-requisite math needed to become a front desk quant. I have done research online and I found that there are a lot of recommended books as a pre-...
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Asset Pricing and inferences - Intercept and relationship to returns

Ideally this question is very similar to What's the meaning of the intercept in asset pricing model? I am regressing a "buys minus sells" portfolio returns to the Carhart factors. The intercept ...
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Differential of time over Browninan motion

I know that $\frac{dW_t}{dt}$, with $W_t$ a brownian motion, does not exist. However, does $\frac{dt}{dW_t}$ exists? Or does it even make sense? I am trying to calculate the quotient of two ...
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Backtesting conditional VaR

I'm writing a thesis about conditional VaR of Standard & Poor's 500 index. I have fitted my log-returns with GARCH(1,1)-proces and then made some conditional VaR-forecast (500 observations) with ...
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Is it possible to use bid-ask spreads on contracts from a specific tenor to estimate risk aversion and use it to transform risk-neutral density into real-world density?
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Can one successfully daytrade 0dte options based on RSI?

I've been doing that manually for 2 months successfully (40% ROI) with SPX 0-1 DTE (Days To Expiration) options, both puts and calls. I might be just lucky so I purchased some data to do backtesting ...
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What are the main types of orders on an exchange?

I'm currently reading Michael Lewis' Flash Boys, which is about high-frequency trading. It was published in 2014 and it says that there are 150 types of orders on exchanges (mainly built for HTF ...
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What's the difference between Statistics and Econometrics?

I can't really grasp the similarities and differences between Statistics and Econometrics. Is Econometrics includes every Statistical models inside it? or is there areas of Statistics outside of the ...
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Historical data for global stocks

Where are companies like finnhub.io or finance portals getting their data from? Do they fetch the historical stock quotes from the exchanges directly? If so, the have to collect the data from a lot ...
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Is there a simplified framework to consider for modelling the stock market?

Does anyone know a reference where one can read up on different aspects of modelling when simulating the stock market? i.e what is known as "stylized facts" and which of these fact that are more ...
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Sampling and cross-validating with tick, volume and dollar bars

Financial data is usually structured with time bars. Other sampling techniques include: tick bars volume bars dollar bars. These are so-called sampling techniques to better identify signals and ...
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Overview of frequentist, likelihood and Bayesian approaches to finance problems

In quantitative finance tasks (asset pricing, portfolio optimization, option pricing, volatility forecasting, etc), there are frequentist, likelihoodist and Bayesian approaches or interpretations to ...
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How to evaluate embedded floor option in inflation linked bonds if interbank inflation floor instruments cannot be used or do not exist

Suppose we consider simple case that only par is protected against base price index, so it is with zero coupon floor feature. How do we value this option given that there is no inflation floor ...