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"When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!"
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Personal Development
"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
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Personal Development
"Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky."
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Personal Development
"In my experience, "what the hell" is generally the most interesting decision."
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Personal Development
"You try almost dying, being chased, thenhopping in a car with a complete (horny)stranger."
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Personal Development
"I believe the more personally removed people are from a major financial event, the less it is to affect their appetite for risk."
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Personal Development
"If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they'll land."
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Personal Development
"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."
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Personal Development
"I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it."
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Personal Development
"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."
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"We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize."
People
"The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem."
Interest
"Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way."
Years
"One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low."
Extreme
"The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something that depended not only on the three-month interest rate, but on other interest rates as well."
Challenge
"Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model."
Trying
"We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners."
Giving
"Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion."
Extreme
"In the interest rate area, traders have for a long time used a version of what is known as Black's model for European bond options; another version of the same model for caps and floors; and yet another version of the same model for European swap options."
Time
"When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward."
Direction
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