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### What market conditions are attributable to prolonged instances of triangular arbitrage opportunities?

I am investigating the potential for intra-exchange triangular arbitrage opportunities for the Cryptocurrency market. I believe that due its immaturity, relatively low volume and high volatility that ...
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### Difference between Risk Premia, Alternative Risk Premia and Factor Investing?

I'm reading about this three concepts but still can't see the difference between the three of them, can someone please explain the main difference between three of them ? Thanks
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### In FIX protocol, how to identify if the trade being submitted to foreign country?

In FIX protocol, how to identify if the trade being submitted to foreign country ?
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### Calculating risk free rates from risky options using put call parity

My questions relates to this post Implying risk-free rates using Put/Call parity , but I am using a different approach. Given: ODAX (Options on "DAX") Settlement prices across different maturities ...
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### Is the value of an Asset-Swap (Underlying + Swap) the same value as a floating-rate bond with the same issuer, maturity, etc.?

I am trying to evaluate the impact of switching an Asset-Swap Package (fixed bond + Swap) into a floating rate bond of the same issuer with the same notional and maturity. My intuition would tell me ...
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### Bond New issue swap pricing

Hi Im trying to understand the different part of the pricing of swaps for an issuer who want to swap his issuance, resulting in the swap dealer paying fixed. Im a little confused as to how it works, ...
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### Compound the monthly returns to make them quarterly [closed]

How can someone make the Kenneth French library data returns quarterly from monthly? Since they are not loq returns, then you need to compound returns rather than summing them up. I want to make the ...
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### Computing covariance matrix with historical data

I have been reading Active Portfolio Management by Grinold and Khan. In the chapter about risk, they mention, "The third elementary model relies on historical variances and covariances. This ...
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### Why does Implied volatility fall when the options market shows an upward trend?

While reading How does implied volatility affect option pricing by Investopedia, it states the following in key takeaways When options markets experience a downtrend, implied volatility ...
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### Do all stochastic volatility models capture volatility smile?

I started reading SABR model recently. In Wiki page, it states that the SABR model can capture volatility smile in derivative market. However, I do not see how it does so.
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### A bounded random variable is sub-Gaussian, thus financial returns are not bounded?

Bounded random variables are sub-Gaussian, yet I, intuitively, assume financial returns are bounded random variables; however, they are not sub-Gaussian. Am I wrong to assume financial returns are ...
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### Python libraries for bloomberg?

I am very new with python, and I am used to work with bloomberg formulas for excel. I am starting to use a lot more python in my analysis, is there any library that performs same functions as bdp, bdh ...
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### Minimum Variance Hedge Ratio and Risk Capital Relation

So I understand that the minimum variance hedge ratio minimizes the second moment of the portfolios. My question is how is it related to the size of the risk capital (which is calculated as the Value ...
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### Determining Value at Risk of a Poisson distribution

If my discrete random variable had a poisson distribution with both moments say equal to 10, how can I find the Value at Risk for a 95 percent confidence interval? I have seen that I need to ...
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### Brownian motion and Stochastic Integration

I have two questions relating stochastic integration which perhaps could be answered together. First question: First of all, I don't really understand why we can't use Riemann-Stieltjes integration ...
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### How can I combine traditional trading patterns and machine learning algorithms to produce a trading system?

Traditionally, retail traders have leveraged on price patterns discovered by applying graphical tools such as flags, fractals, pennants, heads, shoulders, etc. However, while this method has been ...