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by lisazx
August 4th, 2014, 4:00 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: ALM analyst in a commercial bank?
Replies: 1
Views: 4577

ALM analyst in a commercial bank?

<t>I currently work as a consultant to value complex securities in a company similar as big 4.I got an offer to work as an ALM analyst in a mid size commercial bank. I have never worked in a commercial bank before. Does anyone work in or know this area and can give me some insight about this job and...
by lisazx
August 19th, 2013, 5:39 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Career advice: risk or quant researcher
Replies: 9
Views: 10534

Career advice: risk or quant researcher

I have updated my original post, hope to get some help. Thank you!
by lisazx
July 9th, 2013, 6:46 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Career advice: risk or quant researcher
Replies: 9
Views: 10534

Career advice: risk or quant researcher

Thanks.I live around San Francisco.Here are some big commercial banks, some investment management companies.Do anyone know how's the risk work in a commercial bank? is the job of risk management in funds better than the work in commercial bank?
by lisazx
July 8th, 2013, 4:33 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Career advice: risk or quant researcher
Replies: 9
Views: 10534

Career advice: risk or quant researcher

May I know how's the upside of the buy side analyst or risk management?which one is the key skill set? statistical analysis or pricing? Thanks!
by lisazx
June 26th, 2013, 11:29 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Career advice: risk or quant researcher
Replies: 9
Views: 10534

Career advice: risk or quant researcher

<t>First, thanks a lot for your reply. I have updated some information. I graduated from a master degree similar to mfe. Also it's not a top program, but I got full tuition waive scholarship.It's interesting that you say it's a black mark in going back to programming. Is it true? I saw the salary is...
by lisazx
June 26th, 2013, 5:02 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Career advice: risk or quant researcher
Replies: 9
Views: 10534

Career advice: risk or quant researcher

<t>Background:I have been a software engineer for 4 years using Java and C++, and configuration manager. Also, I just have a master degree in Mathematical Risk, similar to Financial Engineering, with courses of stochastic calculus, Monte Carlo simulations, interest rate models, statistics...Currentl...
by lisazx
November 9th, 2010, 4:29 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: What's the problem with my function in VBA which created pdf of noncentral chi-square?
Replies: 7
Views: 23800

What's the problem with my function in VBA which created pdf of noncentral chi-square?

Thank you. Look forward to your reply. any input is welcome.
by lisazx
November 9th, 2010, 3:27 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: What's the problem with my function in VBA which created pdf of noncentral chi-square?
Replies: 7
Views: 23800

What's the problem with my function in VBA which created pdf of noncentral chi-square?

<r>To generate the function of pdf of noncentral chi-square in VBA for a application of CIR model,I followed the pdf formula in <URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncentral_chi-square_distributionThe"><LINK_TEXT text="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncentral ... ibutionThe">http://en.wikipedia.o...
by lisazx
October 14th, 2010, 8:18 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: how to get noncentral chi-sqare pdf in excel
Replies: 1
Views: 23711

how to get noncentral chi-sqare pdf in excel

I want to calibrate one factor CIR using MLE in vba. But it seems I need to get noncentral chi-sqare pdf in order to get log-like function.Does anyone know how to get this noncentral chi-sqare pdf using vba? Or is there any easier way to calucate MLE for one factor CIR in VBA?Thanks a lot
by lisazx
September 23rd, 2010, 7:57 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: volitility of return and price
Replies: 3
Views: 23609

volitility of return and price

Thanks for reply. May I know where I could find the formula related with the relation of the vol? I tried, but I could not derive it.And do you mean in GBM model , both vol of price and vol of return are fixed?
by lisazx
September 23rd, 2010, 6:18 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: volitility of return and price
Replies: 3
Views: 23609

volitility of return and price

Hi,I used Vasicek model to simulate price.And used GBM model to simulate return.I got two volatility in these two models. Is it possible to compare them?If the volatility of price is fixed, will the return of the volatility fixed?Thanks.
by lisazx
September 20th, 2010, 6:28 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: How to return a vector a data in xwl and be called in vba
Replies: 5
Views: 24470

How to return a vector a data in xwl and be called in vba

Is there a easier way to solve this?
by lisazx
September 20th, 2010, 2:23 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: How to return a vector a data in xwl and be called in vba
Replies: 5
Views: 24470

How to return a vector a data in xwl and be called in vba

Thanks for reply. Actaully any type that can give me a array of double to vba would be good But it seems SafeArray is not a defined type in my environment, xwl, and code::blocks.
by lisazx
September 20th, 2010, 2:01 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: How to return a vector a data in xwl and be called in vba
Replies: 5
Views: 24470

How to return a vector a data in xwl and be called in vba

<t>what I am trying to do is just get an array of double from c++ funtion, and then call them in VBA and put each element in a specific cell of ExcelMaybe I am new to C++ or xwl, the data type really confuses me.In C++, it seems the following can not build. Error message: 'xlw::MyArray' is not a tem...
by lisazx
August 22nd, 2010, 10:11 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: xlw support documents
Replies: 3
Views: 28373

xlw support documents

<t>Hi,I am working on xlw in code::Blocks to build excel functions now. I have finally built it successfully. I still have some questions:1 Because I can only build the project but not run it, is there any help documents which show how to debug the program?2 And any document for the details of data ...