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### Why does a higher stock value imply a higher call option value [closed]

This may seem like a very dumb question, but if the underlying stock price is greater, then why should a call option be worth more. My reasoning is that, if the option price is not affected by the ...
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### Calculating units in a cross currency short trade

If I have a forex account with a broker and a balance of 100 USD, and I'd like to short EUR/JPY, how many units can I short? How is this calculated? Which currency pair do I use to translate between ...
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### Stub rate and first fixing in IRS

I have 2 questions that probably are related. Suppose there is an IRS that pays a 2% fixed rate every 6 months and receives the Libor 3 months (but paid every 6 months). The swap starts today (March ...
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### Possible to use diffusion equation(s) to price derivatives with non-zero boundary conditions?

One of the reason the Black-Scholes can be transformed into the heat equation is that calls and puts have a zero boundary condition on their contingent payoffs. Define the terminal payoff condition ...
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### FX Option Pricing Under Basis Adjustment

Given money market rates such as USD LIBOR and EURIBOR and in the context of FX options valuation, I have been reading about the importance to include a so called basis adjustment to one of the ...
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### QL-Python Bootstrapping Yield Curve FuturesRateHelper throwing off results

I'm trying to perform a bootstrap of a yield curve from deposit rates, futures, and swaps, and the interpolation is "blowing up" for the futures maturities being off by two orders of magnitude (100x). ...
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### What’s the derivative of the sharpe ratio for one asset? Trying to optimize on it for a model

It seems most Sharpe ratio derivations seem to be for portfolios but I am just tracking a single asset? $SR = (r_p - r_f) / \sigma_p$ but what would I derive with respect to for an optimization/ ...
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### Monte Carlo simulation error estimation

How does one estimate the error of a Monte Carlo simulation, for example, of the price of a European call under the Heston model with a given step size and number of paths?
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### What does “1-month horizon” mean in VaR calculations

For a simple equity portfolio, I need to compute historical 1-year simulation VaR with a "1-month horizon". I imagine this means I need to compute the 1-month return of the portfolio at each point in ...
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### How to calculate Chande Momentum Oscillator for FX

I am trying to calculate a momentum oscillator for the EUR/USD pair and am confused. A formula I read referenced the sum of previous up days. What is a "day" considered in Forex?
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### How is the price of a bond actually determined?

How the price of a bond is actually determined? Is it the supply-demand that determines the price first and then the YTM is calculated on the back of this for that bond. Or is it that the changes to ...
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### PCA on term structure of interest rates

Interest rate time series seems to be non-stationary whenever test is performed But covariance or correlation matrix is derived from term structure time series which are non stationary and later PCA ...
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### Calculating historical Bond returns

How would you calculate historical bond returns using bond prices? Would you treat bonds just like shares ? Thanks
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### Getting the next price of a GBM (Geometric Brownian Motion)

I am writing a program that creates realizations of a GBM. Starting from an initial price, I get the following price with this formula: ...
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### FX Option pricing on Forward vs. Spot

In a GBM world with riskless domestic and foreign interest rates, what would be the correct model for a FX plain vanilla option given the statement that this option is priced on the forward? I guess ...
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### Valuation of FX vs. Commodities Barrier Options

With reference to my previous question about the computation of a barrier option delta, @LocalVolatility referenced a nice closed form solution to value barrier options on a stock paying a dividend ...
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### Price of call/put is convex in $K$ (strike price)

Let $\lambda\in(0,1)$. Then $$C(T, \lambda K_1 + (1 - \lambda)K_2, S, t) \leq \lambda C(T, K_1, S, t) + (1 - \lambda)C(T, K_2, S, t)$$ $T$ - the maturity $K_1$,$K_2$ - Strike prices $S$ - stock ...
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### Finding historical data for indices [duplicate]

Where can I find historical data for option prices on a given index ? Ideally I'd like to find for a period of several months 1) historical prices on options on a given index 2) historical prices on ...
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### Parametric/Analytical VaR

Suppose I want to calculate VaR for a known distribution with mean $\mu$, variance $\sigma^2$ and $\alpha$-quantile as, $VaR_{\alpha}$ = $\mu + \sigma q_{\alpha}$. For a Gaussian distribution it is ...
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### How would you price an option with payout ln(St) where St is the stock price at time t

I know it has to be done through martingales, but I am not fully sure how to do this BSM pricing.

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