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12,303 documents
The discussion considers how to examine whether emerging markets change in volatility and in correlation with developed-market indices. Rather than prescribing a split into halves or thirds, one answer recommends plotting rolling estimates to locate periods…
The document presents an attempt to calibrate the raw SVI parameterization to market implied volatilities. The code converts quoted volatilities to total implied variance, computes model variance at log-moneyness values, and minimizes the root sum of squared…
The document asks how to evaluate the integral in the semi-closed Heston formula for call options. Its answer says Monte Carlo simulation can approximate the integrals, while Newton-Cotes formulas and Gaussian quadrature are also possible numerical methods.…
The document examines why sponsors may not issue an exchange-traded note alongside an inverse version. It explains that daily leveraged and inverse notes are path-dependent: their exposure resets as their values change, so the pair’s gains and losses do not…
The document explains why at-the-money implied volatility can rise or fall across option maturities. It challenges the assumption that the term structure should be monotonic and identifies several possible drivers, including return autocorrelation,…
The document uses a Gram–Charlier approximation to connect the distribution of log returns with the implied volatility curve. It standardizes log returns, approximates their density using a normal density adjusted for skewness and kurtosis, prices a call…
The document discusses a put backspread, described as selling a higher-strike put and buying a lower-strike put with the same maturity. At expiration, the payoff has a V-shaped profile. In the answer’s simplified description, the steepness of that payoff is…
A digital call pays when the underlying finishes above its strike, so its discounted price equals the risk-neutral probability of finishing in the money. The document connects this price to the strike derivative of an ordinary call price. When ordinary call…
This discussion explains why an option can have a curved value before expiration even though its payoff at expiration is piecewise linear. Before expiry, an out-of-the-money option retains value because the underlying may still move enough for the option to…
This exchange clarifies what “autoregressive” means in an ARCH model. The model expresses current conditional variance as a function of past squared errors, rather than directly as an autoregression of past variances. The response explains that an error can…
The document examines Malliavin integration by parts for estimating option sensitivities in a diffusion model. It asks whether a Delta weight concentrated up to the first payoff observation loses relevant Brownian information, and how to extend the method to…
The document explains why the Hull–White short-rate model’s zero-coupon bond price at the initial time is independent of volatility and mean reversion. The model is calibrated to the observed market zero curve, so its initial bond prices reproduce that curve…
The document presents an approximation for pricing a geometric Asian call under Heston stochastic volatility. It replaces the random variance path with its deterministic expected variance, then integrates that expected variance over the option horizon to…
The document addresses why a basic GARCH model may be outperformed by realized GARCH or other realized-volatility models, especially when modeling intraday volatility. Its explanation focuses on information inputs rather than a strict difference between…
The document explains how to obtain Black–Scholes implied volatility for a European option when the underlying follows a stochastic volatility jump model. Since the model lacks a closed-form log-return density and a direct analytical option price, the answer…
The note offers a possible historical explanation for a fixed fallback volatility used in a bond option-adjusted spread model. It says term-structure models from that period often relied on constant volatility assumptions, commonly calibrated to realized…
The document asks how node values for an American option on a small stock-price tree translate into a hedge. The accepted reply identifies the commenter’s suggested stock position as delta hedging: adjusting exposure to the underlying so that small price…
The discussion asks whether MACD and its fast and slow exponential moving averages should be calculated from an option’s market price or its underlying. One response argues that smoothing the underlying before using it to calculate an option premium would…
The document addresses whether an option-implied distribution for a stock’s log return must be symmetric because Brownian motion is symmetric. The response clarifies that symmetry is not a general property of option-implied distributions and points to models…
The document examines numerical difficulties in pricing European calls under the stochastic volatility with correlated jumps (SVCJ) model. The original MATLAB implementation produces integration warnings and NaN values while attempting to recover prices from…
The document explains why delta neutrality does not guarantee a break-even result or a profit. Delta measures a portfolio’s local sensitivity to the underlying price; it does not eliminate all sources of return or risk. The response distinguishes the claim…
The document derives the instantaneous volatility of the product of two correlated assets modeled with lognormal diffusion dynamics. Applying Itô’s product rule produces a return shock with contributions from both assets, including their correlation.…
The document examines whether probability belongs in explanations of option Greeks. Its response distinguishes uncertainty in future price paths, given fixed model parameters, from uncertainty in the parameters themselves. Under the fixed-parameter…
The document derives a condition for a vanilla option’s implied volatility curve to have zero slope with respect to strike at a given maturity. Differentiating the Black–Scholes call price, expressed using strike-dependent implied volatility, and comparing…