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by zebbo
November 3rd, 2006, 2:58 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Article by Bruce the Quant in Wilmott mag - SABR
Replies: 25
Views: 92466

Article by Bruce the Quant in Wilmott mag - SABR

I lent it to someone who lost it, maybe your overly powerful brains have forgotten that possibility. I was just thinking that maybe somewhere that thing was available in pdf...thanks anyway for your "answers"
by zebbo
November 3rd, 2006, 11:44 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Article by Bruce the Quant in Wilmott mag - SABR
Replies: 25
Views: 92466

Article by Bruce the Quant in Wilmott mag - SABR

Hi,I have lost my copy of Wilmott Magazine and in there there was the article of Bruce the quant about the new greeks in the SABR model. I was wondering if anyone had it in pdf and could send it to me? that would be great.thanks a lot in advancezebbo
by zebbo
November 1st, 2006, 1:56 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Correlation swaps - in FX
Replies: 0
Views: 89647

Correlation swaps - in FX

Hello,I ma looking for a nice article about correlation swaps IN FX. I found an article from Carr on his website about covariance swaps but I am really looking at correlation swap - is there a robust replication available for Correlation swaps byt he way?Thanks a lot for any help!Zebbo
by zebbo
August 18th, 2006, 1:19 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Weekly versus Daily correlation - GBP rates
Replies: 3
Views: 96493

Weekly versus Daily correlation - GBP rates

yeah the window is rolling (i.e. i still estimate with one year using 52 data points, and they roll)what makes me think of a systematic behaviour is that i did not observe that only for GBPEUR vs GBP rateswhat is that variance test? any link to that?thanks
by zebbo
August 18th, 2006, 8:07 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Weekly versus Daily correlation - GBP rates
Replies: 3
Views: 96493

Weekly versus Daily correlation - GBP rates

<t>(Sorry for the previous empty post)HiWhile looking at historical correlations of GBP rates and GBPEUR exchange rates (between 2003-2006) I found something interesting. Correlations are rolling, computed on a year of data. the 2y GBP rate and the GBPEUR exch rate (value of 1GBP in euro) are positi...
by zebbo
August 18th, 2006, 7:50 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Correlation Estimate
Replies: 2
Views: 95833

Correlation Estimate

by zebbo
July 20th, 2006, 9:22 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Should Israel seek the unconditional surrender of Lebanon?
Replies: 583
Views: 160524

Should Israel seek the unconditional surrender of Lebanon?

<t>quick summary for all of your wonderful answers:-Lebanon is an extremely divided country. Nobody inside Lebanon can disarm hizbullah without outside help except hizbullah itself. Hizbullah is executing mainly iranian, partly syrian agenda. It is better equipped than the Lebanese army. If you send...
by zebbo
July 20th, 2006, 4:54 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Should Israel seek the unconditional surrender of Lebanon?
Replies: 583
Views: 160524

Should Israel seek the unconditional surrender of Lebanon?

<t>To everybody except well-learnt lebanese: do yo ureally think you have the information to understand the ituation in Lebnaon? I am 24 and Lebanese it is only 1y ago that I finally understood what happened during the war after reading history books spanning events from 1500 until now. This country...
by zebbo
March 29th, 2006, 5:22 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: ETF for corporate bonds in euro
Replies: 3
Views: 113952

ETF for corporate bonds in euro

Hello guys, I am looking for some ETFs to track the performance of an index that would a total return index on corporate bond indices (preferably BBB or lower), in EURO. Has anyone heard about one of those?Many thanks
by zebbo
March 13th, 2006, 7:52 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Vector Autoregressive Models
Replies: 1
Views: 115127

Vector Autoregressive Models

<t>Hello,I am using [R] to calibrate some vector autoregressive models (using the mAr package). I know there is a test comparable to the ljung-box or portmanteau test to test for the normality of residuals, but I cant find the precise formula on the web and of course I can't find a package dealing w...
by zebbo
February 22nd, 2006, 10:58 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: CDO/CDS Indices
Replies: 0
Views: 117644

CDO/CDS Indices

Hello, I am looking for credit-linked indices (maybe cdo, cds indices?) that are tradable and whose price decrease when correlation increases/general credit quality decreases, and increase of course if the opposite happens. have noe been able to google/wilmott one of those yet...MAny thanks
by zebbo
February 10th, 2006, 9:53 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: inflation derivatives / inflation modelling
Replies: 2
Views: 119794

inflation derivatives / inflation modelling

k - but he worked mainly on OATi i think...
by zebbo
February 9th, 2006, 2:25 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: inflation derivatives / inflation modelling
Replies: 2
Views: 119794

inflation derivatives / inflation modelling

Hello!does anyone know good books/articles dealing with the pricing of inflation derivatives (not only swaps!)?many thanks!
by zebbo
February 2nd, 2006, 10:28 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Pricing of libor exotics
Replies: 39
Views: 185608

Pricing of libor exotics

Hello Hello!!! Pat, or anybody kind, would you please send me a copy to sz429@nyu.edu?? It would be reaaallly niceThanks a lot in advance
by zebbo
November 30th, 2005, 3:47 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: heston pde derivation
Replies: 4
Views: 129349

heston pde derivation

ok - so we consider that the option we use to hedge is dependent on the instantaneous Variance, but doesn't it mean that we are usin Heston Model to price this hedging instrument? I am a bit lost...
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