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by Farhad
June 16th, 2014, 12:34 pm
Forum: The Quantitative Finance Code Library Project
Topic: Buy, Outsource, or Build Internally?
Replies: 7
Views: 29094

Buy, Outsource, or Build Internally?

<t>My department supports advanced mid-office Excel users pricing optionality embedded in contracts. Historically, options are priced using internally built Xll with a library of dozen well-known formulas. Passing parameters into custom Excel formula like ?=Black_Scholes(price, strike,?) or ?=Black_...
by Farhad
June 4th, 2014, 12:40 am
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: Mean of Log-normal distribution
Replies: 3
Views: 5497

Mean of Log-normal distribution

<t>E[LogNormal(mu, sigma)] = exp(mu+0.5*sigma^2)Is there a closed form solution for the mean of LogNormal(mu, sigma) > a where a is a constant?In other words, is there a closed form solution for the mean of lognormal distribution above certain point? As an example, what is the value for stock price ...
by Farhad
June 9th, 2004, 2:14 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Java for GARCH(1, 1)
Replies: 3
Views: 194026

Java for GARCH(1, 1)

I am looking for a Java numerical library that has GARCH implemented. Any links anyone?Thank you,Farhad
by Farhad
February 22nd, 2004, 1:30 am
Forum: The Quantitative Finance FAQs Project
Topic: What is the meaning of the Greeks?
Replies: 16
Views: 206295

What is the meaning of the Greeks?

<t>Could you please clarify whether Greeks are asset specific? Now, suppose that I model the underlying process with Monte Carlo GBM process. Then a delta for a European call option expiring in a year at the money is 0.5 for the GBM process. If my underlying process uses strong Mean Reversion proces...