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by rolf
February 13th, 2003, 3:07 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: standard deviation of P&L from discrete time rebalancing
Replies: 16
Views: 191469

standard deviation of P&L from discrete time rebalancing

<t>For plain vanilla calls the std.dev. of the P/L does indeed drecrease at 1/sqrt(#hedgeppoints).The convergence order depends critically on the smoothness of the pay-off funtion (so it'snot a "CLT-\sqrt"). Juding from the thread, this "well-known in the community".Proofs (of a hard-core probabilit...
by rolf
January 22nd, 2003, 4:38 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: quant analysis of betting
Replies: 9
Views: 190536

quant analysis of betting

Quick! Excellent. Thanks. /rolf
by rolf
January 22nd, 2003, 4:23 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: quant analysis of betting
Replies: 9
Views: 190536

quant analysis of betting

<t>Let me unmodestly refer a part of my own homepage. This isn't shamless promotion of my own work, but some references & thoughts on what I'd like to look at. Or even better: Have some student do & then slab my own name (or money, depending on the results) on.Using Google, I can find refern...
by rolf
January 22nd, 2003, 4:05 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Barrier options under jump-diffusions
Replies: 50
Views: 197524

Barrier options under jump-diffusions

Dietmar Leisen has done some work on random time binomial models. If memory serves me, one of the papers covers both barriers and jumps. And there are actual numbers! He claims it to be fast and accurate & I believe him, although I never got around to implementing it myself.Cheers, Rolf