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    P2.T8. Liquidity and Treasury Risk Measurement and Management

    I am not sure about the offer price... When the financial institution tries to liquidate the large position [n] let's say n > 10, the spread widens. I understand why the bid price widens, as there is a surplus, a lot of supply in the market. But I can't get why the offer price widens.
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    Chapter 14: Trading strategies

    Quote: 'put-call parity shows that the price exposure from writing a covered call is the same as the exposure from writing a naked put.'. Put-call parity is c+Ke -rt = p+S0. We know that S0 - c is a covered call and -S0 + c is naked put but what about Ke-rt. I know that we don't have it in the...
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    Distribution of rates of return Chapter 15 Black Scholes

    Hello! May someone explain how to get the distribution like below. We cancel out T in the mean by dividing by 1/t but we also should cancel the T out in the variance part but after canceling we still have sigma/T but why not just sigma. So we have (mu - sigma2 / 2) * T, sigma2 * T and all this...
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    Chapter 5 MPT,CAPM

    What does 'There is no cost involved in the reduction of risk exposures through diversification. Consequently, there is no compensation for taking asset-specific risk. ' mean?
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    Chapter 1 Measure of financial risk

    What does 'If a normal distribution is time-varying, then its unconditional distribution will be heavy-tailed.' mean?
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    Chapter 5 Sample moments

    May someone explain how to interpret this part: see picture.
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    Chapter 2 Random Variables

    What does it mean: 'The inf is only needed when measuring the quantile of distributions that have regions with no probability'?
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    Chapter 2 Random Variables

    What does it mean: 'where R(x) denotes the possible realizations rendered from the random variable X'?
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    FRM Part 1 Study Group Russia

    Hello everyone, Appreciate may not be many of us sitting the exam in Russia however if anyone interested please comment below. Thanks! Denis
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