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### Adapt SABR Hagan/Obloj model from swaptions to treasuries options

I am a young intern in a brokerage company and I am currently working on developing a new pricer. I would like to encode a skew-visualisation tool and the best way that appeared to me is the SABR ...
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### How to Forecast Quarterly Dependent variable with Monthly Independent Variables with Random Forest

I want to forecast US GDP(quarterly variable) using 100+ monthly financial and macro variables with Random Forest. My issue is that I do not quite know how to interpolate the quarterly data into ...
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### Backshifting Price Timeseries with Memory Preservation

In Advances in Financial Machine Learning the author makes a case for fractionally differentiated price returns in chapter 5. The reason is to both maintain memory and to generate a stationary time ...
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### non gaussian distributions with higher moments and time scaling properties?

If we assume a portfolio comprised of n asset classes, whose log returns can be modeled with a distribution. I am interested in finding a distribution that: incorporates higher moments (skewness and ...
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### Multiple independent variables (returns) on common dependent variables (Fama-French risk factors): Efficiency and data structure in Python

As a common topic in factor investing, I wish to implement the well-known Fama-French regressions on several stocks (+2000 IDs). In a deep sense, factor regressions tell how the right hand (returns) ...
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### Why in Fama-French factor model relative market capitalization and book-to-market aren't used directly for predicting return rate?

Fama and French use the following formula for predicting stock returns \begin{align*} r=r_{riskfree} + \beta_1(r_{market}-r_{riskfree})+\beta_2(SMB)+\beta_3(HML) \end{align*} which basically means ...
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### Likelihood ratio and pathwise sensitivity method for coupled SDEs

I have two coupled SDEs \begin{align*} dS_t=rS_tdt+V_tdW_t^{(1)},\\ dV_t=aV_tdt+b(V_t)dW_t^{(2)},\\ \end{align*} where $W_t^{(1)}$ and $W_t^{(2)}$ are independent Brownian motions, initial input data ...
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### Breakeven Inflation Rate vs Actual Inflation Rate Study

I am relatively new to the realm of TIPS and inflation rate and am working on a study. I wish to investigate the correlation between the breakeven inflation rate for (5Y, 10Y, 20Y) TIPS and actual ...
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### What is the relationship between Vanna and Gamma?

I'm trying to build a crude model for the effects of delta hedging on major indices like the S&P 500. My background is more in pure mathematics so a lot of this stuff is new to me. That said I ...
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### QuantLib-Python Libor Market Model

It appears that QuantLib-Python does not include Libor Market Model, although the C++ version has it. (https://rkapl123.github.io/QLAnnotatedSource/d5/d8d/class_quant_lib_1_1_market_model.html) Is ...
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### Understanding GARCH

I asked this on stats.stackexchange but I realized this might be a better place to ask this question. I am new to finance and volatility forecasting and am trying to understand how garch model works. ...
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### Reason why a European binary call should be worth half of its American counterpart when driftless and out-of-the-money

Exercise 11 of chapter 8 of Mark Joshi's "The concepts and practice of mathematical finance", asks to compare prices of an American and a European digital (binary) calls when out-of-the-...
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### Implementing a Variance Swap Hedging in R

I am trying to compute a hedge for a variance swap, in a simulation. Fo that I am using the following equation:\begin{align*} E^Q\bigg(\sum_{i=1}^n \bigg(\frac{S_{t_{i}}-S_{t_{i-1}}}{S_{t_{i-1}}}\bigg)...
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### A question referring equites and beta

Let's say stock A has a beta of 1.32 and stock B has a beta of .8. Is it okay to say that, stock A moves 32% more than the market? And Stock B moves 20% less than the market?
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### Random Walk Theory vs. Quant Trading

I am quite new to random walk theory so please excuse my rather simply put question but I am wondering how can quant trading desks and other algorithmic trading firms exist if there is the random walk ...
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### Cocycle Condition for FX and SABR

I was wondering whether SABR model (or some of its modifications) is actually used by practionarers. Also, if one models the FX forward with SABR, would the cocycle condition be satisfied? That is, if ...
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### Question on boundary conditions when using Finite Difference

I have two questions appearing to me (they are not related directly to each other). My first question is about boundary conditions when using Finite difference methods. There are two ways to do it: a)...
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### Survival probabilities starting from CDS spreads

How is that possible to get survival probabilities starting from CDS spread? Could you please provide me with a demonstration? What is more, is that true that CDS Zero type is necessary so as to get ...
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### decomposition of yields into global and local components

It is reasonable to assume that global yields move in tandem to a certain extent, driven by a global and a local component. Are there any ways to separate the two, beyond the obvious (regress the ...
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### How to compute standard errors of an estimator with antithetic variates?

I'm pricing American options using Longstaff and Schwartz Least square method. When using the following Python code, I obtain nearly the same prices and standard errors as in the Valuing American ...
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### Reading Recommendations - Quantitative Investment Strategies from a “genuine” quant viewpoint

I recently stumbled the lecture notes of Prof. Avellaneda on Quantitative Investment Strategies (near the bottom of this page). The exposition is highly structured and rigorous, but I am missing in ...
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### Non-fixed stationary “conversion”

Dear users of StackExchange, I was wondering why the log returns of a fixed period of time is such a common use in "transforming" a time series into a more stationary one? I thought that ...
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### Relationship between Vega and Gamma in Black-Scholes model

my question is the following one: I don't manage to prove that, in Black-Scholes model, single-signed Gamma options have values that are monotonic in the volatility. I am looking for an exhaustive and ...
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### Is the market price of risk deterministic or stochastic in the Heston model?

I am recently digging into the Heston model and I have noticed that every author refers to the market price of risk simply as $\lambda$, or sometimes it is more clearly specified to be bi-dimensional ...
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### Use of CNY and CNH derivatives

I was wondering what are the reasons why investors use USDCNH forwards vs NDF on USDCNY? Do you usually pick CNH for trade reasons, while CNY more for speculation as these are USD settled?
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### Strange efficient frontier, when I try to calculate BTC & ETH ratios using MPT(Modern Portfolio Theory) [closed]

The 10k Monte-carlo simulations all fall on the same line, instead of a proper scatter plot.. Not sure what I'm doing incorrect. It all works fine, if I include Monero in the mix. Any pointers ? I'm ...
I'm reading some articles about PDE and I found the following PDE, with $q_1,A >0$: \$g_t(t,y)+ \beta^2yg_y(t,y)+\frac{1}{2}\beta^2y^2g_{yy}(t,y)-q_1 g(t,y)=0 \quad (t,y) \in [0,T), \times (0,+\...