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### Delta and vega sensitivities for Cap

I have a task to do but it is very difficult.. I have to calculate the: Delta Sensitivity analytically, that is the first derivative of caplet price wrt the forward rate, using the black model to ...
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### What does XIRR show?

I've put aside 1000 EUR for trading strategy test. Made number of trades where each position was worth 5 EUR. At any moment there was invested from 0 to 80 EUR. Entered all cashflows to XIRR function ...
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### Find the stock exchanges a security is traded in given a CIK?

I have all the CIKs and relative tickers of all the traded securities that I need (https://www.sec.gov/include/ticker.txt). My question is: How do I find the stock exchange that a gives security is ...
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### Calculation of monthly interest and capital repayment in a variable rate mortgage

In my exercise, I take out a 240,000€ mortgage from a bank which I pay off over a period of 30 years. The interest rate is a market index plus a spread. Initally the market index is 1% and the spread ...
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### Confusion about terminology : Finite difference for option pricing

Consider the following initial-boundary value problem for $u = u(x,t),$ $$u_t - a u _{xx} = f(x,t) \text { for } 0 < x < L \text { and } 0 < t< T$$ along with bunch of initial and boundary ...
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### corporate bonds - general questions [closed]

Newbie here and not trading IRL but for a school assignment. I want to buy corporate bonds because they are a safe bet from what I read. I have a few questions though, I hope I will find an answer ...
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### Binomial Pricing Model d and u

In the binomial pricing model, why do the magnitude of the up factor $(u)$ and down factor $(d)$ have to be multiplicative inverses? I have read from multiple sources that the reason for this is that ...
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### Construct a zero coupon bond

Suppose a 3% 10-year bond is trading at 89 and a 7% 10-year bond is trading at 97. Then (assuming no arbitrage) the price of a 10-year zero-coupon bond would be: The answer should be 83. How using ...
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### Options Arbitrage

I have a basic question regarding the BSM formula, would be thankful for any assistance. As far as I understand $N(d2)$ and $N(-d2)$ stand for the probability of a Call and Put respectively being ...
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### Correlation between assets used for valuing multi-asset options (Rainbow options, basket options etc.)

Is there an equivalent to implied volatility used when it comes to modelling correlation in option valuation for multi asset options such as rainbow options (best-of/worst-of calls/put), or is the ...
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### How to find the price variance of an infinitely expanding Binomial Tree?

How to find the price variance of an asset in a Binomial Tree Model? Suppose the price of the Stock is $S_t$ at time $t$ and it has a probability of $p$ that will go up $u$ times to $u \cdot S_t$ and ...