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by dionysus
June 10th, 2009, 2:31 am
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: Volatility surface parametrization: about put-call parity and outliers
Replies: 8
Views: 42055

Volatility surface parametrization: about put-call parity and outliers

<t>New Underlying Price = Your Underlying Price + Price Offset(including cost of carry, market situation, ... )Calculate IV from the New Underlying Price, and compare. Give it a shot. When you trade, if the skew of call and put differs significantly, that is the time when you should change price off...
by dionysus
June 9th, 2009, 5:44 am
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: Volatility surface parametrization: about put-call parity and outliers
Replies: 8
Views: 42055

Volatility surface parametrization: about put-call parity and outliers

<t>You're using wrong underlying price to calculate implied volatility. Change underlying price, let's say down -1% to + 1% from you're using now. And draw the call side and put side skew. There will be a point that two sides match. That is the correct underlying price you should use. Or, the other ...
by dionysus
February 1st, 2009, 1:20 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: How marketable is a German PhD degree?
Replies: 34
Views: 140078

How marketable is a German PhD degree?

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by dionysus
December 23rd, 2008, 10:27 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Python IDE
Replies: 11
Views: 49038

Python IDE

I'm happy with Eclipse + PyDevUse the Eclipse update manager: http://pydev.sourceforge.net/updates/
by dionysus
December 16th, 2008, 11:24 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Reading MS Access with Visual C++ without MFC support ?
Replies: 9
Views: 49045

Reading MS Access with Visual C++ without MFC support ?

<r>What about this one?Simple ODBC classes without MFCBy Justin KirbyA collection of simple classes to connect to ODBC capable DBMS and share those connectionsIntroductionI have written a lot of database apps. Most of them have been small, and I soon realized that the CRecordset class was the only c...
by dionysus
November 14th, 2008, 7:20 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: how much time will it decay between...?
Replies: 0
Views: 46380

how much time will it decay between...?

<t>Let's say the exchange market's open time is 9:00 am and the close time is 3:00 pm in every trading day.I am wondering how can I view the time decay in the following case.1. from Monday @3:00 pm to next Tuesday @9:00 am2. from Friday close to Monday open when I short theta and my day calculation ...
by dionysus
October 30th, 2008, 1:29 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Black-Scholes PDE & drift
Replies: 11
Views: 52355

Black-Scholes PDE & drift

<t>In a corporate finance book, you can find the term: Required Rate of Return. You can approach the drift from view of required rate of return. A stock is risky. So we require more return than a risk free asset, or we're not going to invest on it.(we're risk aversive) Because the "delta hedging" ca...