Inside volatility filtering : the secrets of skewness /: the secrets of skewness. (2015)
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- Title:
- Inside volatility filtering : the secrets of skewness /: the secrets of skewness. (2015)
- Main Title:
- Inside volatility filtering : the secrets of skewness
- Uniform Title:
- Inside volatility arbitrage
- Further Information:
- Note: Alireza Javaheri.
- Authors:
- Javaheri, Alireza
- Contents:
- Foreword ix Acknowledgments (Second Edition) xi Acknowledgments (First Edition) xiii Introduction (Second Edition) xv Introduction (First Edition) xvii Summary xvii Contributions and Further Research xxiii Data and Programs xxiv CHAPTER 1 The Volatility Problem 1 Introduction 1 The Stock Market 2 The Stock Price Process 2 Historic Volatility 3 The Derivatives Market 5 The Black-Scholes Approach 5 The Cox Ross Rubinstein Approach 7 Jump Diffusion and Level-Dependent Volatility 8 Jump Diffusion 8 Level-Dependent Volatility 11 Local Volatility 14 The Dupire Approach 14 The Derman Kani Approach 17 Stability Issues 18 Calibration Frequency 19 Stochastic Volatility 21 Stochastic Volatility Processes 21 GARCH and Diffusion Limits 22 The Pricing PDE under Stochastic Volatility 26 The Market Price of Volatility Risk 26 The Two-Factor PDE 27 The Generalized Fourier Transform 28 The Transform Technique 28 Special Cases 30 The Mixing Solution 32 The Romano Touzi Approach 32 A One-Factor Monte-Carlo Technique 34 The Long-Term Asymptotic Case 35 The Deterministic Case 35 The Stochastic Case 37 A Series Expansion on Volatility-of-Volatility 39 Local Volatility Stochastic Volatility Models 42 Stochastic Implied Volatility 43 Joint SPX and VIX Dynamics 45 Pure-Jump Models 47 Variance Gamma 47 Variance Gamma with Stochastic Arrival 51 Variance Gamma with Gamma Arrival Rate 53 CHAPTER 2 The Inference Problem 55 Introduction 55 Using Option Prices 58 Conjugate GradientForeword ix Acknowledgments (Second Edition) xi Acknowledgments (First Edition) xiii Introduction (Second Edition) xv Introduction (First Edition) xvii Summary xvii Contributions and Further Research xxiii Data and Programs xxiv CHAPTER 1 The Volatility Problem 1 Introduction 1 The Stock Market 2 The Stock Price Process 2 Historic Volatility 3 The Derivatives Market 5 The Black-Scholes Approach 5 The Cox Ross Rubinstein Approach 7 Jump Diffusion and Level-Dependent Volatility 8 Jump Diffusion 8 Level-Dependent Volatility 11 Local Volatility 14 The Dupire Approach 14 The Derman Kani Approach 17 Stability Issues 18 Calibration Frequency 19 Stochastic Volatility 21 Stochastic Volatility Processes 21 GARCH and Diffusion Limits 22 The Pricing PDE under Stochastic Volatility 26 The Market Price of Volatility Risk 26 The Two-Factor PDE 27 The Generalized Fourier Transform 28 The Transform Technique 28 Special Cases 30 The Mixing Solution 32 The Romano Touzi Approach 32 A One-Factor Monte-Carlo Technique 34 The Long-Term Asymptotic Case 35 The Deterministic Case 35 The Stochastic Case 37 A Series Expansion on Volatility-of-Volatility 39 Local Volatility Stochastic Volatility Models 42 Stochastic Implied Volatility 43 Joint SPX and VIX Dynamics 45 Pure-Jump Models 47 Variance Gamma 47 Variance Gamma with Stochastic Arrival 51 Variance Gamma with Gamma Arrival Rate 53 CHAPTER 2 The Inference Problem 55 Introduction 55 Using Option Prices 58 Conjugate Gradient (Fletcher-Reeves-Polak-Ribiere) Method 59 Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) Method 59 Direction Set (Powell) Method 61 Numeric Tests 62 The Distribution of the Errors 65 Using Stock Prices 65 The Likelihood Function 65 Filtering 69 The Simple and Extended Kalman Filters 72 The Unscented Kalman Filter 74 Kushner’s Nonlinear Filter 77 Parameter Learning 80 Parameter Estimation via MLE 95 Diagnostics 108 Particle Filtering 111 Comparing Heston with Other Models 133 The Performance of the Inference Tools 141 The Bayesian Approach 158 Using the Characteristic Function 172 Introducing Jumps 174 Pure-Jump Models 184 Recapitulation 201 Model Identification 201 Convergence Issues and Solutions 202 CHAPTER 3 The Consistency Problem 203 Introduction 203 The Consistency Test 206 The Setting 206 The Cross-Sectional Results 206 Time-Series Results 209 Financial Interpretation 210 The “Peso” Theory 214 Background 214 Numeric Results 215 Trading Strategies 216 Skewness Trades 216 Kurtosis Trades 217 Directional Risks 217 An Exact Replication 219 The Mirror Trades 220 An Example of the Skewness Trade 220 Multiple Trades 225 High Volatility-of-Volatility and High Correlation 225 Non-Gaussian Case 230 VGSA 232 A Word of Caution 236 Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income, and Other Markets 237 Foreign Exchange 237 Fixed Income 238 CHAPTER 4 The Quality Problem 241 Introduction 241 An Exact Solution? 241 Nonlinear Filtering 242 Stochastic PDE 243 Wiener Chaos Expansion 244 First-Order WCE 247 Simulations 248 Second-Order WCE 251 Quality of Observations 251 Historic Spot Prices 252 Historic Option Prices 252 Conclusion 262 Bibliography 263 Index 279 … (more)
- Edition:
- Second edition
- Publisher Details:
- Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 332.632220151922
Stocks -- Prices -- Mathematical models
Stochastic processes - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781118943984
9781118943991 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781118943977
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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