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by par
November 25th, 2005, 10:02 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Useful quant work-related software?
Replies: 15
Views: 132147

Useful quant work-related software?

I think people have stopped using underscore and use <- as assignment operator. Yes it has a debugger, use ?mtrace. You have do use the packages mvbutils and debug before you can use mtrace.
by par
November 17th, 2005, 5:20 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Correlation matrix
Replies: 4
Views: 131061

Correlation matrix

Does anyone have a clue how he arrives at his estimator for pi, the one he calls r2 in his matlab code?
by par
November 11th, 2004, 12:08 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Data mining
Replies: 0
Views: 169630

Data mining

Has anyone read this article? Murphy’s law and market anomalies, Dimson & Marsh, Journal of Portfolio Management 1999, 25(2): 53-69Does anyone know of any good articles on datamining except Sullivan/Timmerman/Whiteata Snooping, Technical Trading Rule.../Par
by par
February 27th, 2004, 7:31 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: need a rigorous (a true one) proof of ito formula
Replies: 7
Views: 190106

need a rigorous (a true one) proof of ito formula

Kloeden and Platen has a proof of Ito's formula. If I remember correctly its without TaylorRegards
by par
February 6th, 2004, 10:14 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Hull and Baxter&Rennie: alternatives please.....
Replies: 14
Views: 191260

Hull and Baxter&Rennie: alternatives please.....

Has anyone seen anything on Björk's second edition of Arbitrage theory in continous time?
by par
January 30th, 2004, 11:50 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: The Dangers of Using -Correlation to Measure Dependence
Replies: 4
Views: 189839

The Dangers of Using -Correlation to Measure Dependence

Haha jokes are on me!I actually found the article and pretty much nothing new under the sun.Boyer Gibson Loretan 1997 in light versionRegards
by par
January 30th, 2004, 7:53 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Easiest – User Friendly Books
Replies: 6
Views: 190193

Easiest – User Friendly Books

This book is easyModern Econometrics: An IntroductionR.Leighton Thomas Regards
by par
January 29th, 2004, 7:36 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: How to tell if options are cheap
Replies: 2
Views: 189781

How to tell if options are cheap

Ok thank you very much for your answer.Regards
by par
January 28th, 2004, 11:45 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: The Dangers of Using -Correlation to Measure Dependence
Replies: 4
Views: 189839

The Dangers of Using -Correlation to Measure Dependence

Ok. Thank you very much. So theres nothing new compared to the paper on Correlation and Dependence: Properties and pitfalls by Embrechts et al 1999?Regards par
by par
January 28th, 2004, 9:00 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: How to tell if options are cheap
Replies: 2
Views: 189781

How to tell if options are cheap

Is this article available anywhere?“How to tell if options are cheap”, Galen Burghardt and Morton Lane, 1990 Regardspar
by par
January 27th, 2004, 2:46 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Fisher Black article?
Replies: 5
Views: 189984

Fisher Black article?

Could This be the one?Estimating Expected Returnby Fischer BlackFinancial Analysts Journal, vol. 51, no. 1 (January/February 1995): 168-171
by par
January 24th, 2004, 3:50 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Asset management books
Replies: 2
Views: 189770

Asset management books

I would recommend Grinold and Kahn "Active portfolio management"Regards
by par
January 23rd, 2004, 12:23 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: The Dangers of Using -Correlation to Measure Dependence
Replies: 4
Views: 189839

The Dangers of Using -Correlation to Measure Dependence

Does anyone have this article, written by Harry M Kat?
by par
January 16th, 2004, 7:59 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: EVT and Peaks Over Threshold question
Replies: 1
Views: 189341

EVT and Peaks Over Threshold question

<t>If you read chapter 7 in that book theres a decent explanation.As far as I understand the PP method is very natural if one wants to introduce non-stationarity in the model, since the parameters are GEV parameters and thus invariant to threshold choice u. This means that you can have time-varying ...
by par
January 8th, 2004, 4:48 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Normal copula with t-dist margins
Replies: 10
Views: 190013

Normal copula with t-dist margins

<t>Stefanone.While I'm still at it I'd like to bother you with one more question.As you sure know, some copulas don't have a lower tail dependence coefficient lambda_low.If I want to calculate the dependence in the lower tail of two FX series couldn't I just put a minus sign in front of all returns ...