This paper by Qimou Su and Curt Randall suggests three Monte Carlo algorithms for the computation of derivative price sensitivities (the "Greeks"). The first algorithm is a finite difference implementation of the likelihood ratio method introduced by Broadie and Glasserman (1996). Two additional schemes further improve the performance and applicability. All implementations are fully numerical and...
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London, GBA-Team Group provides the global community of IT and data professionals in financial markets with the business intelligence they need to excel in their roles.
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Abstract: We suggest an empirical model to analyze the investment style of individual hedge funds and funds of funds. Our approach is based on a mixture of the style analysis approach suggested by Sharpe (1988), the factor push approach used in stress testing, and historical simulation. An interesting and straightforward extension of this model is the estimation of value-at-risk (VaR) figures....
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One year ago, with spectacular timing, a Wall Streeter named Richard Bookstaber published a book on financial engineering. He called it "A Demon of Our Own Design," and his argument was that a new breed of "quants" - or "quantitative" number-crunchers like him - had created a system too complex to be manageable. The risks embedded in swaps and options were understood by only a handful of math...
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On a freezing day in March 2007, Nassim Taleb walked into a conference room at Morgan Stanley's Manhattan offices on 47th Street and Broadway to address a group of the firm's risk managers. His message: Your models don't work. Using a whiteboard to scribble out his calculations, Taleb, now 48, began one of his rants, this time against stress tests -- Wall Street lingo for examining how a market...
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Algorithms enable traders to delegate the monitoring and reaction to market data updates to a computer, leaving them free to work orders that require human intervention. Tom Middleton and Atchen Nathan report in this 2005 Article from FT Mandate.
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Table of Contents Comment and Analysis High-frequency trading in a limit order book Marco Avellaneda; Sasha Stoikov Original Articles Multi-asset minority games G. Bianconi; A. De Martino; F. F. Ferreira; M. Marsili Price discovery in the presence of boundedly rational agents Karl Ludwig Keiber Long-memory in high-frequency exchange rate volatility under temporal aggregation David G. Mcmillan;...
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