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### How can I learn stochastic process & stochastic calculus in two weeks? [closed]

I am going for an interview for a quant job. The interview will focus on my mathematical knowledge about stochastic process & stochastic calculus, and I believe I will definitely be asked to solve ...
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### Calculation of market price for option at underlying strike price at some point in future

Would appreciate clarification on the below scenario. If a put option was sold at the start of the week, when the broker (Interactive Brokers) calculates the cost basis (the premium collected) are the ...
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### Is this efficient frontier graph reasonable?

Hi. The above image is taken from https://www.newfrontieradvisors.com/media/1166/optimization-with-non-normal-resampling.pdf. Is this a reasonable chart? The 4 different methods give 4 non-overlapping ...
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### Does CRR Model lose completeness if we add another instrument?

Consider the multiperiod binomial/CRR model with one risky asset $S^{1}$ and a numeraire $S^{0}$. By seeing that the equivalent martingale measure is uniquely determined, we obtain that the market is ...
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### How do I deal with nonexistant data in a time series with an irregular frequency?

I am trying to do some time series analysis on the margin resulting from three specific commodity futures contracts and ultimately forecast the margin. The margin is calculated as M = F1 + F2 - F3. I ...
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### Clean noisy data from arbitrage

My problem is that I have a surface of implied black volatilites that is supposed to represent market data. However, the surface contains some slight arbitrage. More precisely, the graph contains ...
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### How to prove no-arbitrage when a long butterfly is strictly positive?

I want to prove why there are no arbitrage opportunities when a long butterfly is strictly positive. I know there is a similar topic out there, but it seems it doesn't solve my question: Prove that ...
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### MatLab code does not work for Heston model calibration

I am trying to calibrate Heston model on some data and I have the following code. Code is supposed, after it reads the data, to give back 5 parameters. However, I get an empty answer from MatLab. Does ...
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### Option pricing and GARCH resources

Can anyone suggest resources for option pricing using GARCH models? Although I have a fairly good knowledge of GARCH models, for some reason I cannot seem to be able to follow Duan's paper and how to ...
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### How to model run-off ratio for non-defined maturity deposit?

I'm trying to model run off ratios for different deposit products as well as how long it takes to lose all deposits, would anyone please suggest any methodology? In addition, would I be able to define ...
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### Switching from EONIA to ESTR for CSA discounting

In practice, when bilateral counterparties switch from OIS to ESTR discounting, the party which sees a fall in the fair value of the CSA contract gets compensated for the decrease by the other party (...
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### Cost of Volga & Vanna in Credit Options?

What are the commonly used methods to compare the cost of volga/vanna in credit index options across time and strikes? In practice, is the Vanna-Volga exposure technique used in credit, or are there ...
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### Implications of modeling operational risks without frequency distribution

When modeling operational risk, the Loss Distribution Approach (LDA) is widely used. Usually, we model the loss frequency distribution and the loss severity distribution and then aggregate both to ...
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### QuantLib Python: how to calculate duration and convexity for irregular cashflows? Can I use SimpleCashFlow or must I define a custom bond?

I have 2 questions: If I want to discount a set of irregular cashflows, I can do it using the SimpleCashFlow class, or defining a bond with custom cashflows (thank you to Ballabio and David Duarte for ...
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### Implementation of solvers for curve construction

I'd be really interested to hear people's experiences of implementing global solvers for curve construction, especially with regard to how robust the approach is in practice, numerical performance, ...