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The document derives an approximate single implied volatility for a portfolio of options whose components have different implied volatilities. It begins with the condition that the portfolio’s modeled value at the common volatility should equal the sum of…
The document compares two martingale derivations of the Black–Scholes partial differential equation. With the bank account as numeraire, requiring the discounted option price to have zero drift yields the familiar PDE. The attempted stock-numeraire…
The document offers historical volatility and correlation estimates as starting points for a foreign currency option model with domestic equities, foreign equities, and an exchange rate. Using weekly observations over five years for the DAX, S&P, and EUR…
The document discusses how to calculate p-values for estimated GARCH coefficients and whether the degrees of freedom should account for the model’s parameters. One response recommends using the sample size minus the total number of estimated parameters,…
The document examines how Actual/Actual ISMA determines coupon amounts for a fixed-rate bond with a short or long stub period. Its example has a first coupon running from the issue date to a February payment date, followed by monthly coupons. The initial…
The document derives an expression for the expected value of a process described by a stochastic differential equation with drift and diffusion terms. Rewriting the equation in integral form separates accumulated drift from the stochastic integral. Under the…
The document explains how deterministic constants and trends can be specified in Johansen cointegration models. It lists five model forms, ranging from unrestricted constants and trends to no constant or trend, and says nested specifications can be compared…
The discussion distinguishes uncertainty in portfolio allocations from uncertainty in the inputs used to construct them. Mean-variance optimization can produce a precise allocation from estimated returns and covariances even when those parameters are poorly…
The document derives a European call pricing representation for an asset whose returns combine continuous Brownian movement with independent Poisson jumps. When jump sizes are lognormally distributed, conditioning on the number of jumps makes the terminal…
An implied volatility surface reflects option prices that vary by strike and maturity, unlike the constant volatility assumption in the basic Black–Scholes model. Looking at one maturity at a time, a steep downside wing means out-of-the-money puts are…
The document describes an attempt to estimate value at risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES) with a peaks-over-threshold method using a generalized Pareto distribution (GPD). In a rolling sample of Petrobras returns, the author encounters a software error…
The document concerns parametric expected shortfall (ES) when returns are modeled with a four-parameter Paretian stable distribution. It describes a question about implementing a closed-form ES method attributed to Stoyanov, with VaR defined for returns as a…
The document derives the conditions under which the unconstrained minimum-variance portfolio of two assets has no short positions. Starting from the formula for the weight on the first asset, it requires that weight to be nonnegative and no greater than one.…
The document asks whether the conditional expectation of an exponential Brownian increment, given information available at an earlier time, can equal its unconditional expectation. It assumes the earlier time is no later than the endpoint and questions…
The document derives a closed-form price for a European payoff based on the positive part of one minus the strike divided by the terminal stock price, assuming the stock follows geometric Brownian motion under the money-market measure. Its key observation is…
The document explains how to simulate terminal prices for several assets whose returns are correlated, in order to value a multi-asset option by Monte Carlo. In a geometric Brownian motion model, dependence is specified through correlations among Brownian…
The document describes a backward path-integral scheme for pricing an American put on a log-price grid. At each time step, it discounts and integrates the next-step option value against a Gaussian propagator for log prices, then applies the early-exercise…
The document derives an alternate form for the time integral of Brownian motion, a step that arises in the short-rate Merton model. Representing Brownian motion at each time as the accumulation of its increments turns the time integral into an integral over…
The document shows how to rewrite a European put’s discounted expected payoff as an integral of the underlying asset’s cumulative distribution function. Starting from the payoff integral over nonnegative asset prices, it extends the density’s support to the…
The document outlines a property-based method for estimating a REIT’s equity value per share. First calculate net operating income from revenue and expenses before depreciation and interest. Divide that NOI by an assumed capitalization rate to estimate the…
The document considers a weather-linked call whose daily payout depends on maximum temperature mapping to a quantity and a price index average exceeding a strike. The payoff also has daily and contract-wide payout limits, making a direct closed-form…
The document outlines a derivation of the Black–Scholes equation from the Capital Asset Pricing Model rather than from a risk-free portfolio formed by delta hedging. It starts from CAPM’s relation between expected return and covariance-based risk…
The document discusses how to interpret a LIBOR Market Model matrix when constructing discount bond values. It emphasizes that matrix layout must be understood first: under a common convention, columns represent observation times and diagonal entries…
The document examines an option whose payoff and premium are expressed in the underlying asset, using an ETH example to compare conversion from a conventional Black–Scholes value with a direct simulation. The key issue is the payoff definition: converting…