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by EdisonCruise
January 29th, 2015, 5:27 am
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: Is HJB equation a local or global optimum?
Replies: 1
Views: 5070

Is HJB equation a local or global optimum?

<r>I am a bit confused on the HJB equation. In the derivation of Hamilton?Jacobi?Bellman (HJB) equation, we take the first order optimality at each time step, so that the trading strategy is optimum over the next infinitesimal time step. It seems that this strategy gives only local optimum, which is...
by EdisonCruise
January 20th, 2015, 1:34 am
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: How to calibrate stochastic model with time series?
Replies: 4
Views: 5287

How to calibrate stochastic model with time series?

<t>Thanks again, Alan. I want to use maximum likelihood, but I am not sure how to construct the likelihood function for specific stochastic models, especially high dimensional models. I think mathematica, matlab only provide optimizaiton functions, rather than likelihood function. Are there any good...
by EdisonCruise
January 19th, 2015, 1:23 am
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: How to calibrate stochastic model with time series?
Replies: 4
Views: 5287

How to calibrate stochastic model with time series?

<t>How to calibrate stochastic model with time series? I know there are lots of numerical methods like solving Fokker-Planck PDE, Disrete maximum likelihood, Hermite polynomial expansion, Markov Chain Monte Carlo. But is there any availble numerical library to do this? I prefer open source library. ...
by EdisonCruise
January 15th, 2015, 4:59 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: How to derive Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation from supreme of expectation?
Replies: 3
Views: 3719

How to derive Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation from supreme of expectation?

<t>Thank you, Alan. I know what you mean. I agree that Equation (2) can be derived from g(t, Vt, Xt)=sup[E( g(T, VT, XT) ) ].But I am still not sure how to get g(t, Vt, Xt) from Equation (1). There is an exponetial function and a parameter alpha in Equation (1), which finally disppear in Equaiton (2...
by EdisonCruise
January 14th, 2015, 12:46 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: A quick question on Ito's integral
Replies: 8
Views: 4319

A quick question on Ito's integral

Thank you Alan. I completely agree with you
by EdisonCruise
January 12th, 2015, 3:03 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: A quick question on Ito's integral
Replies: 8
Views: 4319

A quick question on Ito's integral

<t>The above solution uses a simple method to calculate It-Is.Although the result looks quite correct to me, the process seems to have some problem. The last equation omit lots of terms. After t1, there should be more terms t2, t3... until t. If we write out the long series (rather than just 3 terms...
by EdisonCruise
January 5th, 2015, 7:51 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: How to forecast volatility based on fundamental analysis?
Replies: 1
Views: 3464

How to forecast volatility based on fundamental analysis?

<t>I know there are lots of papers and books cover forecasting volatility by quantitative model. However, is there any practical guide on forecast volatility based on fundamental analysis, like the analysis on government policy, economic conditions of foreign/domestic countries, customers' demand an...
by EdisonCruise
December 31st, 2014, 8:10 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: 2D martingale problem
Replies: 5
Views: 3940

2D martingale problem

Thank you Alan. I have sth to pick up.
by EdisonCruise
December 29th, 2014, 1:32 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: 2D martingale problem
Replies: 5
Views: 3940

2D martingale problem

Is there anything unclear on this question? The interviewer suggested a martingale be constructed in 2D to solve this problem, but I really cannot figure it out. Any further suggestions from you guys?
by EdisonCruise
December 27th, 2014, 9:30 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: 2D martingale problem
Replies: 5
Views: 3940

2D martingale problem

<t>This is an interview question. Circle A with radius a is inside Circle B with radius b. a 2D independent Brownian motion start from point M with distance r to center of circle A. point M locates between circle A and cirlce B. What's the probability of reaching circle A before reaching circle B? <...
by EdisonCruise
December 24th, 2014, 12:11 am
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: Why pricing American option by free-boundary method and MC?
Replies: 5
Views: 5021

Why pricing American option by free-boundary method and MC?

<t>Thank you, Cuchulainn.The finite difference scheme I use is Crank?Nicolson, which is second order accuracy. Do you mean assigning payoff to option price directly would make the accuracy order to 1? If so, can a classical 4th order Runge-Kutta can cure this disadvantage, where I can assign payoff ...
by EdisonCruise
December 23rd, 2014, 3:10 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Expectation of volatility or sqrt(expectation of variance)?
Replies: 6
Views: 4251

Expectation of volatility or sqrt(expectation of variance)?

Thank you for your suggestions Alan.
by EdisonCruise
December 23rd, 2014, 3:07 pm
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: Why pricing American option by free-boundary method and MC?
Replies: 5
Views: 5021

Why pricing American option by free-boundary method and MC?

<t>As I know, American-type option can be solved by PDE method. When the PDE is integrated backward, the option price can be simply assigned by option payoff at this time step if the payoff is bigger. This method seems work well for me, but is there any disadvantage of this method? Otherwise why do ...
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