Questions tagged [finance]
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Finance engineering and risk management [on hold]
Compute the price of a zero-coupon bond (ZCB) that matures at time t = 10 t=10 and that has face value 100.
at r o,o = 5% q = 1/2
i solved this question and got answer 61.34 but it is wrong.HOW CAN ...
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Financial Mathematics question, I know linear algebra stuff, but not this application question
A market has two stocks S1 and S2. Both S1 and S2 are valued at 1 per unit today and can be worth either 2 or 0.5 per unit after one year. Assume that money M valued at 1 per unit today does not ...
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How do I calculate fixed amount of monthly payments to pay off a debt with interest?
If my balance owed is 10,000 and my APR is 27%, if I wanted to pay the debt in full in 4 months, what would be my payments per month?
here is the website where it takes inputs:
https://www....
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Question about answer in 13th edition FM manual for example of a continuous annuity with varying force of interest
Am I just not seeing what happened to the negative sign?
$e$ between the first and second steps on the last line">
Any clarification would be much appreciated!
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Find the net rate of interest
A building that costs USD 7,500, rents for USD 62.50 a month. If insurance and repairs amount to $1 \%$ each year, what is the net rate of interest earned on the investment?
Method One: I assumed ...
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How is standard deviation calculated on a matrix of dependent variables?
This a follow up to a question I had here.
So I have a Matrix $C$ that is the covariance between a set of stocks:
I do as well have a vector $\vec{w}$ of weights:
$\begin{bmatrix} 0.4 \\ 0.2 \\ 0.1 ...
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Using fission method with a series like v^5 + v^12 + v^19+…
I am studying for exam FM and I know we can use the "fission" method to represent a summation like
$v^5 + v^{10} + ... + v^{100}$ as $\frac{ \require{enclose}a_{\enclose{actuarial}{100}}}{\require{...
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Simple Interest vs Amortization schedule
I'm writing a little piece of software to service auto loans using simple interest. When computing using simple interest calculators the numbers are different when compared to the amortization ...
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How can I calculate the conditional expectations for the asset prices given partitions?
I have the following underlying asset, with the interest rate being zero:
$$
\begin{array}{c|lcr}
& \text{S(0, $\omega_i$)} & S(1, \omega_i) & \text{S(2, $\omega_i$)} \\
\hline
\omega_1 &...
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Stretching the covariance of a daily change to the year
I'm diving into financial mathematics and have calculated a matrix that gives me the daily change of four given securities:
The start of it looks like this:
My Tutorial is now calculating the ...
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Splitting costs of a costcenter
This is probably stupid-simple for you guys, but I'm not mathy and I'm having difficulty figuring this out.
In a fictional company C there are two costcenters and three employees.
Costcenters:
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Required amount to invest now in a trust fund (difficulty with discount rate)
The parents of three children aged 1, 3, and 6 wish to set up a trust fund that will pay 25k to each child upon attainment of age 18, and 100k to each child upon attainment of age of 21.
Assume that ...
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Capital after interest per month and additional deposits per month
Person A has 1000€ on the bank with 5% interest per month. He also puts 50€ per month to his bank account before he receives the interest. How much does he have after 12 months?
My calculation 1000*...
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Relation between Simple Return and Continuously Compounded Return [closed]
Suppose S is the simple return and X is the continuously compounded return of a stock which has normal distribution. May I know how to show 1 + S = exp(X)?
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Kelly bet question
I stumbled upon Kelly bet during studies and decided to try simulating it. I chose a simple example where $b = 1$ and $p = 0.6$, which gave me the Kelly bet equal to $0.2$ of the wealth. I took $25$ ...
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Peaks of a curve. [closed]
I'd like to find the peaks corresponding to a curve most likely by using slope of tangent to the curve.
enter image description here
The attached curve has multiple peaks. I'm looking for an algorithm ...
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Simplifying the Derivative of a European Call Option
I know the title suggests finance, but I'm stuck on the mathematics of this.
I need to take the following derivative:
$$
-\frac{\delta C(X)}{\delta X}=-\frac{\delta}{\delta X}
\Big[Se^{-dT}N(d_1)-Xe^...
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Compare two different prices in stock market
I am trying to develop some algorithm in stock market, I want to compare two different sets of prices, please see below image to understand clearly,
If you see above image I have plotted two ...
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Derive all the Present values and Future values formulas assuming continuous compounding (for multiple cash flows)
$\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty } A(1+\frac{r}{m})^{mn}=Ae^{rn}$
Derive all the Present values and Future values formulas assuming continuous compounding (for multiple cash flows).
Can anyone help out? ...
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Finding n for amortization
I have this formula for amortization
PMT = PV * (i / (1 - (1+ i)^(-n) ) )
I'm having issues isolating n in cases where I'm given the present value, the payment value, and the interest rate, but not ...
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Geometric Brownian Motion Price Processes in high Dimensions
This is my first post so I am open for an suggestions in formating improvement. For some reason I can not find suitable literature for the following problem
What I want to do is calculate the option ...
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Convert flat interest rate to effective interest rate
My bank currently has promotion on personal loan on flat interest rate which is 3.80%. And there are some minor remarks
Terms and Conditions apply.
Effective rates vary from 7.07% p.a. to 7.15% ...
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Markov Chain: Optimal stopping to determine the price at which stock is traded
The stock price starts at 100\$. At any given time, there is 50% probability that stock price increases further by 1 and 50% probability that stock price goes back to 100\$. You are paying 1\$ to ...
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Discounted Value of Ordinary Annuity
Hello I tried to do the problem below, and I'm not sure where my calculations went wrong or my method was incorrect. I would like some assistance.
An annuity pays 1000.00 weekly for 4 years and ...
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Finding a future value given force of interest
One of my actuarial exam problems asks to find $\ddot{s}_{\bar{2}|}$, given $\delta_t=\frac{2t}{10+t^2}$ $(t\geq 0)$.
Here's what I've done: From the definition of $\delta_t=\frac{A'(t)}{A(t)}$, $A(t)...
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Solving for Annual Deposit annually
Irene plans to retire on January 1, 2020. She has been preparing to retire by making annual deposits, starting on January 1, 1980, of 2050 dollars into an account that pays 9.8% compounded annually. ...
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Find the value of 10X
At a compound interest rate of $5 \%$ per annum, the accumulated value 3000 has the same accumulated value as deposits of 5X and 3X made at time t=0 and t=3, respectively. Find the value of 10X.
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Straight line depreciation confusion
My problem:
A computer bought for $3892$ is to be claimed as a tax deduction using straight-line depreciation of 15% of its original value each year until the total value has been claimed. Calculate ...
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Digital Option risk neutral probability
In the $T$-period binomial model, if the asset price is $S$ at any time,
the next period's price will be either $SU$ or $SD$. The interest rate
per period is $r>0$ and $D^* < 1 < U^*$, ...
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What could the formula of the present value for such a saving plan?
Trying to make the problem as simple as possible.
I decide to start on January $1^{\text{st}}$ a saving plan for which the bank will give me a constant interest rate $r$ (the interests being paid on ...
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Determine fair price of a digital option
A digital option pays one dollar at time $t = T$ if the asset price is
above a fixed level (strike) $K$ and is worthless otherwise.
Consider the following
model, with $r = 0$:
\begin{...
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I have yearly sales forecast and constant seasonality (% of yearly sales). How can I come up with a seasonality that smooths the monthly growth?
Let's say I have a yearly sales forecast (in $), such as {100,300,400,500}
I also have a monthly seasonality percentage (as % of total yearly sales), such as ...
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Financial Math - Appreciation of a House. Help?
I need help figuring out where I went wrong.
Question:
Emily is purchasing a house for $185000 that appreciates at a rate of about 1.5% per year. She will finance this purchase with a 15-year ...
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Need clarification with a simple 'balance' sheet calculation
I really don't understand how they got the net air sales amount?Do you not need to take into account the contract savings, amount lost and all the other stuff below it? Can anyone clarify this, that ...
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Minimum Rate of Return
Question: A businessman wishes to earn 7% on his capital after payment of taxes. If the income from an available investment will be taxed at an average of 42%, what minimum rate of return, before the ...
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Volatility in an at-the-money call option
I understand that the vega of the Black-Scholes equation is a positive function, which means the value of the option is an INCREASING function of the volatility, since vega is the derivative of the ...
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GMM application
I have a sample iid ${({X_i})_{i=1}^{n}}$ from a distribution with mean $ \mu$, where $\mu\in R$. suppose you also know that the distribution is symmetric around the mean(skewness is $0$). If you need ...
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Current price of a European call option
I have the following situation:
Consider a European call option on a non-dividend paying stock,
with strike $K$, time to expiry $T$ and current stock price $S_0$. Assume that
the risk free rate is ...
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Finance Questions : Credit Card interest
Working through some problems on personal finance and this is the only set of questions I seem to not get a grasp on. I feel kind of like an idiot though for not being able to understand what to do. ...
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Compound Interest - Changing interest rates
Problem
Calculations
Hello, my problem involves compound interest specifically with changing interests. I tried doing the problem above by doing it in (2) and even tried putting it in a solver to do ...
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Risk-neutral probability measures
Consider a market with $\Omega= (\omega_1, \omega_2, \omega_3)$, $r = 0$ and one asset $S$.
Suppose that $S(0) = 2$ and $S$ has claim $\bar S = (1, 3, 3)$ at time 1.
Find all the risk-...
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Sure Thing Arbitrage
Consider the following model with assets $S_1, S_2$ and three states, and suppose that $r = 10\%$
\begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
n&S_n(0)& S_n(1,\omega_1) & S_n(1,\omega_2) & S_n(1,\...
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Interest involving different years, but same or lower 2nd value?
When selling your property you receive the following offers :
(a) € 100 000 on 1.1.18 and € 100 000 on 1.1.20
(b) € 150 000 on 1.1.18 and € 50 000 on 1.1.19
Assume interest is 3%
Which offer is ...
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Is there arbitrage?
An economist writes a 1-period expectation model for valuing options.
The model assumes that the stock starts at S and moves to $2S$ or
$\frac{1}{2}S$ in 1 year's time with equal probability. ...
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What would the interest rate have to be to make the two shares to be equally valuable?
Marco dies and leaves behind a perpetuity paying $1000/month. His wife is entitled to the payments for the first 20 years, and then payments go to Marco's favourite charity. Interest rates are 6% ...
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Compound Interest with monthly deposits
If i have S starting cash, and I make X monthly deposits, at an Y monthly interest rate, how would I go about calculating the total after Z months?
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Applying Ito's formula to $D^x(t)=(\partial/\partial x)S(t)$
Let $\gamma:[0,T]\times (0,\infty)\to \mathbb{R}$ be continuous, bounded above, $(\partial/\partial s [\gamma(t,s)])$ is continuous in $(s,t)$. Consider the following process $$dS_{\gamma}^x(t)=S^x_{\...
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Additivity of Value at Risk
I'm struggling with the following exercise:
Let $(\Omega,\mathcal{F},\mathbb{P})$ be a probability space and $X,Y$ be two real-valued random varaibles such that their corresponding cumulative ...
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Market quotes and arbitrage argument
DUPLICATE ON HOLD Use an arbitrage argument to construct a formula relating the price of the European to the price of an American.
Good day, I wanted to ask for help with a question from one of my ...
