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by darkearth
May 21st, 2015, 8:23 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Senior EQD Trader Interview
Replies: 2
Views: 3784

Senior EQD Trader Interview

<t>Thank you Dominic.Your answers make complete sense. A manager would ask this kind of questions and a well prepared candidate will make his way through them.I was more thinking about "what kind of tricky technical questions you would ask?"Exp: How to hedge your quanto correlation exposure? How to ...
by darkearth
May 20th, 2015, 8:32 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Senior EQD Trader Interview
Replies: 2
Views: 3784

Senior EQD Trader Interview

What interview questions would you ask a senior EQD trader?
by darkearth
October 7th, 2007, 8:53 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Hedging Equity Correlation
Replies: 4
Views: 65124

Hedging Equity Correlation

thx guys.
by darkearth
October 5th, 2007, 4:01 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Hedging Equity Correlation
Replies: 4
Views: 65124

Hedging Equity Correlation

Last august, some of the structured products desks (who are often short Equity correlation) suffered from the market drop (and the raise of the correlation). Could someone tell me what are the means of hedging this in practice ?dark.
by darkearth
October 4th, 2007, 8:29 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: Hedging Correlation
Replies: 2
Views: 66329

Hedging Correlation

Precision : I was talking about Equity Correlation
by darkearth
October 4th, 2007, 8:15 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: Hedging Correlation
Replies: 2
Views: 66329

Hedging Correlation

Last august, some of the structured products desks (who are often short correlation) suffered from the market drop (and the raise of the correlation). Could someone tell me what are the means of hedging this in practice ?dark.
by darkearth
December 19th, 2006, 7:21 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: ADR / GDR volatility
Replies: 2
Views: 85802

ADR / GDR volatility

<t>Could someone give me a theoritical proof of the formula giving the volatility of an ADR (American Deposit Receipt), which takes a foreign stock as underlying, in a classical Black Scholes framework.sigma(ADR)² = sigma(underlying)² + 2 Correl x sigma(FX) x sigma(underlying) + sigma(FX)²with Corre...
by darkearth
April 10th, 2006, 4:40 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Bermuda Swaption (H&W model) by PDE
Replies: 1
Views: 111581

Bermuda Swaption (H&W model) by PDE

<t>Hi,I am trying to price a bermuda swaption (fixing dates are same as exercise dates) by PDE (Hull & White Model)And I am facing a problem with the fixing times :T_ j , j = 0,...,N-1 is the set of the fixing dates. They are separated by delta.and r : is the value of the interest rate (discreti...