题目5556 · 数理金融
A European call is priced under Black-Scholes with spot 100, strike 100, rate 0.03, dividend yield 0, maturity 1, and initial volatility 0.2. If volatility changes to 0.25 while all else is unchanged, what are the old and new call prices?
打开 →题目5557 · 数理金融
A European call is priced under Black-Scholes with spot 95, strike 100, rate 0.04, dividend yield 0.01, maturity 0.5, and initial volatility 0.22. If volatility changes to 0.28 while all else is unchanged, what are the old and new call prices?
打开 →题目5558 · 数理金融
A European call is priced under Black-Scholes with spot 120, strike 110, rate 0.02, dividend yield 0, maturity 1.5, and initial volatility 0.18. If volatility changes to 0.24 while all else is unchanged, what are the old and new call prices?
打开 →题目5446 · 金融与交易
A desk uses half-spread = base + k*sigma_1s*sqrt(horizon_seconds) + buffer. With base=0.004, sigma_1s=0.08, horizon=4, k=1.1, and buffer=0.002, what half-spread should it quote?
打开 →题目5450 · 金融与交易
A desk uses half-spread = base + k*sigma_1s*sqrt(horizon_seconds) + buffer. With base=0.0045, sigma_1s=0.07, horizon=25, k=1, and buffer=0.001, what half-spread should it quote?
打开 →题目3099 · 统计
In a GARCH(1,1) model with $\omega=1$, $\alpha=\frac{3}{20}$, and $\beta=\frac{3}{5}$, suppose the current squared return is $r_t^2=4$ and the current conditional variance is $h_t=5$. Compute $h_{t+1}$.
打开 →题目3596 · 随机过程
For a GBM, the ratio of the 95th percentile of S_1 to its median is observed to be 1.9. What volatility sigma does this imply?
打开 →题目3598 · 随机过程
For a GBM, the ratio of the 97.5th percentile of S_1.5 to its median is observed to be 2.2. What volatility sigma does this imply?
打开 →题目1506 · 数学
Choose b so that sqrt(1+6x) * exp(bx) has no linear term in its Taylor expansion around 0.
打开 →题目4698 · 数理金融
Current variance is v0 = 0.04, long-run mean is theta = 0.09, mean-reversion speed is kappa = 2, and horizon is T = 0.5. What expected forward variance E[v_T] and annualized volatility sqrt(E[v_T]) does the model imply?
打开 →题目5281 · 金融与交易
An equal-weight portfolio holds two assets with volatilities 0.04 and 0.09. The current correlation estimate is -0.2, but stress testing revises it to +0.3. With weights unchanged, what is the new portfolio volatility, and by how many volatility points does it rise versus the ori
打开 →题目5878 · 数理金融
In a Cox-Ross-Rubinstein tree the volatility is σ=0.25 per year and each step is Δt=0.25 years. Using u=e^{σ√Δt} and d=1/u, what is the up factor u (to four decimals)?
打开 →题目4796 · 数理金融
At one maturity bucket, the desk estimates the endpoint instantaneous forward volatility sigma(t,T)=0.015 and the HJM no-arbitrage drift alpha(t,T)=0.027. In the one-factor relation alpha(t,T)=sigma(t,T)*integral_t^T sigma(t,u) du, what value is implied for integral_t^T sigma(t,u
打开 →题目6023 · 统计
A GARCH(1,1) model $h_t=\omega+\alpha r_{t-1}^2+\beta h_{t-1}$ has $\omega=0.04$, $\alpha=0.12$, $\beta=0.80$. Here $h_t$ is the conditional variance of daily returns. Report the long-run (unconditional) daily volatility $\sqrt{\bar h}$ as a decimal.
打开 →题目5791 · 金融与交易
A desk sets half-spread proportional to expected holding-period volatility: h = c*sigma*sqrt(T). It currently quotes h=0.05 at sigma=0.02 per unit-sqrt-time and T=1. If realized volatility doubles to sigma=0.04 and expected holding time rises to T=4, what half-spread should it qu
打开 →题目2857 · 概率
A return $R$ is conditionally Gaussian:
\[
R\mid V=\sigma \sim N(0,\sigma^2),
\]
where $V$ equals $1$ or $2$ with probability $1/2$ each. Compute the characteristic function of $R$ and explain why $R$ is not itself Gaussian.
打开 →题目5849 · 金融与交易
A position's expiry profit is large and positive far below a price L, declines linearly to a single flat negative minimum across a middle range, then rises linearly again and becomes large and positive far above a price U>L. No stock is held and the minimum loss is bounded. Name
打开 →题目4608 · 数理金融
In the martingale derivation, why does higher volatility usually help a call even though the discounted expected stock price itself does not change?
打开 →题目4791 · 数理金融
In a one-factor HJM setup with maturity gap tau=T-t=2, the desk observes an instantaneous forward drift alpha(t,T)=0.045 and assumes the volatility is constant across the bucket. Using alpha=sigma^2*tau, what sigma is implied?
打开 →题目4792 · 数理金融
In a one-factor HJM setup with maturity gap tau=T-t=1.5, the desk observes an instantaneous forward drift alpha(t,T)=0.06 and assumes the volatility is constant across the bucket. Using alpha=sigma^2*tau, what sigma is implied?
打开 →题目2106 · 数理金融
A variance swap has observed 30 trading days out of 90. Realized variance so far is 0.035, and the current fair full-life variance strike is 0.038333. If the remaining window is assumed to carry one flat volatility level, what annualized volatility does that imply for the remaini
打开 →题目5001 · 金融与交易
Around the volatility strike K_vol, a variance swap with variance notional N_var is often locally matched to a vol swap with vega notional N_vega via N_vega = 2*K_vol*N_var. If N_var=100000 and N_vega=40000, what K_vol is implied?
打开 →题目5002 · 金融与交易
Using N_vega = 2*K_vol*N_var, if N_var=75000 and N_vega=27000, what volatility strike K_vol is implied?
打开 →题目4079 · 金融与交易
Two strategies have the same estimated edge, but one has much higher realized volatility and fatter drawdowns. Which should be shrunk more aggressively from full Kelly?
打开 →题目3599 · 随机过程
For a GBM, the ratio of the 90th percentile of S_0.5 to its median is observed to be 1.3. What volatility sigma does this imply?
打开 →题目3727 · 随机过程
Why is it not contradictory to use implied volatility for option marking while using a separate physical return forecast for directional views?
打开 →题目2391 · 数学
A Monte Carlo estimator has sample standard deviation 5 across n=400 paths. Using the normal approximation, what is the 95% half-width?
打开 →题目4886 · 数理金融
Two strata have population weights N1=0.6 and N2=0.4. Their standard deviations are sigma1=2 and sigma2=unknown. Under equal-cost Neyman allocation, the desk wants stratum 2 to receive 50% of the samples. What sigma2 is implied?
打开 →题目5003 · 金融与交易
Using N_vega = 2*K_vol*N_var, if N_var=120000 and N_vega=60000, what K_vol is implied?
打开 →题目1681 · 统计
A signal's average daily alpha over 25 days is $0.8$, and the daily standard deviation is known to be $2$. Test $H_0:\mu=0$ against a two-sided alternative at the 5% level using a z-test.
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