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### CFH TOOLBOX MATLAB OPTION PRICING [on hold]

Does Anybody know cfh toolbox of matlab? How does this toolbox work? I've just intalled it into my matlab and I would like to use it to pricing option with heston jumps model if it is possible ...
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### Cox-Ingersoll-Ross Zero Bond Put Option

according to Brigo & Mercurio (2006): But how is the Zero bond Put of the CIR model? I couldn't find any information about that. Thanks in advance. Regards Chris
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### Produce the random variable for an asset from a uniformly distributed random varible

I'm working on a quant interview question from the book called Quant Job Interview Questions And Answers (by Mark Joshi and other authors). I cannot understand the following question(not the answer, ...
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### Fourier transform method: the reason why it's beneficial to put points of interest on the middle of the “time-domain”?

I was trying to solve European option pricing problem using Conv method (introduced by Lord in 2008 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0632/460bd50b2151f74ac40028df4cc60e73a884.pdf). The final step of ...
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### Why use reinforcement learning for portfolio optimization with historical market data?

One of the main advantages of (deep) reinforcement learning approaches (compared to more widely known supervised deep learning approaches) is the fact that it enables us to automatically take ...
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### Deriving implied volatility programmatically

I'm working on a project to calculate the value of options using Python. I'm using the Black-Scholes model, and I can get accurate results by plugging in a given ...
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### What is the payoff matrix of a set of put option that completes the market?

For example, there are three states of nature but only one security yielding payoffs {1,2,3} in the three states. What would be the set of put options that completes the market? I know that if it his ...
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### 0 Delta on Forward starting Equity basket option

I wanted to confirm the inherent reasoning behind 0 delta on a weighted equity basket option. For instance, if we have a basket option with a forward starting initial fixing date, we can expect the ...
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### Quantlib Yield Curve

Is it possible to create yield curve object in Quantlib given some function of time? For example, given Nelson-Siegel parameters, create yield curve which can compute zero yield for any date >= ...
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### Heston model with jumps in both variance and underlying dynamic

How can I build on Matlab a Heston model using characteristic function adding jumps in both variance and underlying dynamic ? Suppose that the number of jumps is Poisson-distributed but the jump size ...
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### Is the vega of a portfolio of a long 0.5 delta and short two 0.25 delta calls positive or negative?

More specifically what I am trying to find out is whether the following relationship is always true or not. Same underlying for the calls, assume the most simplistic assumptions (interest rate = ...
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### VaR for a mixed portfolio of stock following GBM and ATM put options

Ok so I have a portfolio which consists of 1 million invested in an index. We are given historical data of the index and using, say, 5 year window, I can fit and calibrate geometric brownian motion ...
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### Dynamic Programming optimal saving-consumtion finite horizon problem

Let $w_t$ denote a consumer's wealth at time $t$ and $c_t$, the amount she chooses to consume, so her savings exiting this time period are $w_t-c_t$. Given this savings decision, her savings $w_{t+1}$ ...
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### List of all Russell 2000 Stocks

Anyone know where to find a list of all the stocks on the Russell 2000 index? I've Googled away on this one, but thus far, have only found a junk site (suredividend.com) that purports to have it, ...
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### What is NYSE breakpoint as used by Fama French?

I googled the term, the closest I could find was "breakpoint", which does not fit the context.