User A.L. Verminburger

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Why is Markowitz portfolio optimisation so popular considering it is worse than an equal weighted portfolio?

Jul 4 at 8:28 A.L. Verminburger 696

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Why is the equity premium not arbitraged away?

equities fixed-income

Jul 30 '14 at 14:23 Tom Au 434

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Trading signal strength: [-1 to 1] or [predicted return]?

backtesting regression strategy digital-signal-processing

Jun 5 '16 at 9:19 A.L. Verminburger 696

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Large trend-followers: why use futures rather than ETFs?

futures etf trends

Oct 18 at 12:01 ontic 83

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How is the integral relationship between current yield curve and forward yield curve derived?

fixed-income yield-curve forward-rate

Jun 5 '18 at 13:57 Daneel Olivaw 3,877

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Should a backtester have ability to run multiple strategies simultaneously?

quant-trading-strategies backtesting portfolio

Aug 16 '16 at 9:08 A.L. Verminburger 696

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Why do futures seem to be quoted in setllement price rather than cost of the contract?

futures

Oct 19 at 9:02 Chris Taylor 4,419

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For which would you expect the liquidity on instrument X to be the greatest: its spot, future, option or swap?

options futures swaps spot-rate

Oct 18 at 16:13 A.L. Verminburger 696

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Origin of the $-\frac{1}{P}$ in Macaulay Duration?

fixed-income bond duration sensitivities

Sep 11 at 13:04 Rodrigo de Azevedo 231

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Is $\sigma_{1} = \frac{\sigma_{\tau}}{\sqrt{\tau}}$ suitable for volatility scaling?

volatility time-scale

Jul 15 at 12:39 A.L. Verminburger 696

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Why bond (individual or their benchmark index) graphs predominantly display yield rather than price?

fixed-income

Jun 8 '18 at 11:30 A.L. Verminburger 696

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Would you consider yield a stationary or non-stationary process?

fixed-income statistics stationarity

Apr 19 '18 at 20:16 Newbie 167

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Why would a 9% dividend payment halve the stock price? [closed]

equities dividends

Aug 10 '14 at 18:15 A.L. Verminburger 696

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What is the difference between Cost of Currency Hedging and the Price of a Currency Pair Forward?

fx forward hedge

Oct 11 at 11:47 MGL 356

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How to derive Balck Scholes from the Binomial Model?

black-scholes binomial

Sep 24 at 18:07 byouness 1,541

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Rationale for likelihood function parameter choice in Black-Litterman model?

black-litterman bayes-theory

Jun 15 at 14:00 Community♦ 1

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Does forecasting asset returns by default assumes non-stationarity of asset returns?

returns forecasting log-returns stationarity

Mar 28 '18 at 15:41 Winkelried 113

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What incentivises short selling? [closed]

short-selling

Jan 19 '18 at 14:56 A.L. Verminburger 696

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$R^{2}$ Measure for Functions (Yield Curves)

fixed-income forecasting

Nov 14 '17 at 13:56 Brian B 12.8k

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How are short rate models used to construct the whole of the yield curve? [closed]

fixed-income yield-curve short-rate

Nov 10 '17 at 16:55 A.L. Verminburger 696

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Can a momentum strategy be cast as a multilinear regression model?

regression momentum

May 26 '17 at 14:36 zmwang 3

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Deriving the Forward Rate Formula from the Expectation Hypothesis

fixed-income yield-curve forward-rate

Jan 15 '18 at 17:04 A.L. Verminburger 696

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Returns on actively trading bonds compared to equity?

fixed-income expected-return active-investing

Nov 15 '17 at 11:11 dm63 8,988

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Is return required by a bond investor a function of base interest rate and credit worthiness of the issuer?

fixed-income interest-rates

Oct 24 '17 at 8:11 dm63 8,988

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Do stochastic interest rate models forecast future interest rate?

interest-rates stochastic-processes

Aug 24 '17 at 15:53 noob2 4,588

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Do exchanges issue position ID after order execution?

portfolio exchange asset

Mar 30 '17 at 16:50 msitt 681

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What would be the issue price of the following contract?

derivatives

Feb 25 '18 at 20:19 Ivan 1,031

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z-score versus log standardisation of stock prices for calculating correlation; which to use (in ML clustering, distance measure)?

time-series correlation machine-learning log-returns cluster

Mar 31 '17 at 9:07 A.L. Verminburger 696

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28 Questions

Why is Markowitz portfolio optimisation so popular considering it is worse than an equal weighted portfolio?

Why is the equity premium not arbitraged away?

Trading signal strength: [-1 to 1] or [predicted return]?

Large trend-followers: why use futures rather than ETFs?

How is the integral relationship between current yield curve and forward yield curve derived?

Should a backtester have ability to run multiple strategies simultaneously?

Why do futures seem to be quoted in setllement price rather than cost of the contract?

For which would you expect the liquidity on instrument X to be the greatest: its spot, future, option or swap?

Origin of the $-\frac{1}{P}$ in Macaulay Duration?

Is $\sigma_{1} = \frac{\sigma_{\tau}}{\sqrt{\tau}}$ suitable for volatility scaling?

Why bond (individual or their benchmark index) graphs predominantly display yield rather than price?

Would you consider yield a stationary or non-stationary process?

Why would a 9% dividend payment halve the stock price? [closed]

What is the difference between Cost of Currency Hedging and the Price of a Currency Pair Forward?

How to derive Balck Scholes from the Binomial Model?

Rationale for likelihood function parameter choice in Black-Litterman model?

Does forecasting asset returns by default assumes non-stationarity of asset returns?

What incentivises short selling? [closed]

$R^{2}$ Measure for Functions (Yield Curves)

How are short rate models used to construct the whole of the yield curve? [closed]

Can a momentum strategy be cast as a multilinear regression model?

Deriving the Forward Rate Formula from the Expectation Hypothesis

Returns on actively trading bonds compared to equity?

Is return required by a bond investor a function of base interest rate and credit worthiness of the issuer?

Do stochastic interest rate models forecast future interest rate?

Do exchanges issue position ID after order execution?

What would be the issue price of the following contract?

z-score versus log standardisation of stock prices for calculating correlation; which to use (in ML clustering, distance measure)?