Answer the following quantitative finance / statistics questions:
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Left-skewed returns
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Name one or more sectors/strategies whose return distributions are often
left-skewed
(negative skew).
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Explain
why
their returns tend to be left-skewed.
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Black–Scholes call formula terms
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In the Black–Scholes European call price
C=S0N(d1)−Ke−rTN(d2),
what do the **two main terms** represent intuitively?
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(No derivation required.)