One of my colleagues who took the test before already warned me about the complicated questions, so I was not surprised. But still, it was incredibly and unnecessarily convoluted. So much so that I could barely remember 5 or 6 questions after the exam ended.
Regarding the Merton model question -...
Practice exams also had such questions where Up and Down moves were given and D was not equal to 1/U, so I took the increase and decrease that were given in the conditions - it clearly stated that it is expected to increase by 5% and decrease 10%.
1. Yes, I think my answer was either "variance is finite" or "variance is constant and finite"
2. Yes, 45000
5. I vaguely remember also selecting that option
6. I selected something around 100k, but we might have different booklets
8. On the crack spread question the spread was definitely...
I think you remember correctly, this is how I did it:
First up probability:
[e^(2/1)-0.9]/[1.05-0.9] =73.4%
So probability down is 26.6%
Up move step is 3200*1.05=3369
Down step 2970
The value of up move step is 0*73.4%=0
The value of down move is (3200-2970)*26.6%=230*26.6%=61.18
So...
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