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How to find volatility of asset using two equation

Nurulhanna
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How to find volatility of asset using two equation

Hi, I'm a Quantitative Sciences student and a first-time user of Mathcad.

 

As I do not have information on the asset volatility, I need to compute the value of asset volatility using two equations. However, the comment said that "The variable is undefined.."

 

May I know how to solve it? Thank you so much.

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we outlined the steps as follows –

  1. Calculate the average
  2. Calculate the deviation – Subtract the average from the actual observation
  3. Square and add up all deviations – this is called variance talktowendys
  4. Calculate the square root of variance – this is called standard deviation.
LucMeekes
23-Emerald III
(To:Nurulhanna)

Please check this Forum for examples of using a solve block with Prime (as it differs w.r.t. Mathcad 15 and before).

Regarding your sheet:

You can omit the "Given".

Move the constraint equations (E=.... and sigmaE*E=...) to the "Constraints" section of the solve block.

Provide a guess value for sigmaA  (sigmaA := <a value>) in the "Guess Values" section of the solve block.

 

Come back here, with your updated sheet if you've done the above and there's still a problem.

Then do not forget to state which version of Prime you are using.

 

Success!
Luc

DJF
16-Pearl
16-Pearl
(To:Nurulhanna)

You need a guess value for sigmaA.  

  

And maybe I don't follow what you are trying to do, but the second equation by itself will lead you to a solution for sigmaA.  One equation one unknown.  (I suppose the first equation should do, but I get no solution found).

 

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Given your setup both equations can't be satisfied with a single sigmaA.  Do you need to solve for a second variable also? Like this:

 

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You've (perhaps) used "old" Mathcad.  Prime's solve blocks are a bit different"

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