We are pleased to bring you the 26th edition of Graham & Doddsville. This student-led investment publication of Columbia Business School (CBS) is cosponsored by the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing and the Columbia Student Investment Management Association (CSIMA).
I wrote 2 months ago about the Worst Precious Metals Meme of 2015, a meme which attempted to erroneously equate the COMEX registered gold stocks with the gold that is “available for delivery” at the COMEX, and then draw hysterical conclusions by making ratio comparisons that bear positively zero relationship to the operational realities of the futures market.
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While you can certainly make them as complex as you want, the tried and true methods taught in this course are explained step-by-step so that even a child could understand. Get ready to learn about magnets, snowballs, Pacman, blowfish, sharks and how all these items relate to the world of advanced options.
Tap into the macro-economic coverage on India and gain trading insights centered around SGX’s India suite of derivative products namely SGX CNX Nifty Index Futures, SGX MSCI India Index Futures, SGX INR/USD FX Futures. With speakers covering macro-economic developments and delving into the finer details of trading strategies, this was an event not to be missed.
Investment Idea: Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE:BUD) is a company with an excellent management team, good dividend yield, a fair price and a good catalyst for growth in the merger with SABMiller (SAB).
I gave my thoughts to on Chipotle (CMG) to Kyle Woodley for a story he wrote for US News and World Reports. Chipotle is a great company and one of the great growth stories of the past decade.
An organisation which works against arms trade requested for a government investment of £200 million with an intention to develop western Scotland as a world leader of marine power as well as to fund this policy by less weaponry sales.
The economic performance of Irish has come recently and the sources and the economists have accepted the fact that the Irish economy has performed better in the year 2015. But they have told that this is not the best and there is a lot more to achieve.
The famous diagnostic center of India Dr. Lal Path Labs has got approval from the SEBI for IPO. The center has planned to sell about 1.16 crore shares in this IPO. The shares will include the fresh issues and the issues from the existing share holders. This total shares will count 14.1 percentages of the company.
Our hypothesis is formulated as “market is mean reverting”. Mean reversion is a theory that suggests that the prices eventually move back to their average value. The second step involves testing the hypothesis for which we formulate a strategy on our hypothesis and compute indicators, signals and performance metrics. The testing phase can be broken down into three steps, getting the data, writing the strategy and analyzing the output.
This video will help viewers understand how currencies spot market and currencies forward market works. How can you exchange currencies. How does companies enter into a forward contract with banks to hedge their currency risk and how does it benefit both the parties. After watching this video also watch the part 2 which will help you understand the currencies future market and non deliverable forwards market (NDF)
Now for those of you who know me as a blogger might find this post a little unorthodox to my traditional style of writing, however in the spirit of evolution, inspired by a friend of mine Stuart Reid (TuringFinance.com), I will be following some of the tips suggested in the following blog post.
Algorithmic trading has become the part of every market now. It is unimaginable to have a market without algorithmic trading in future. Every company entering into trade wants to make use of the best technology available so as to raise a reasonable fund value from it. While this is going to be the scenario in future, then it is must for every marketer to understand the algorithmic trading, its elements and its working.
There is incentive of Rs 12000 for toilet construction for BPL (Below Poverty Line) families, but to achieve the universal coverage, banks and other financial institutions need to provide easy financing,” Singh said addressing a conference on innovative financing for clean India in New Delhi.
Recently I had the privilege to attend the Python for Quants conference in London via live streaming. Each time I attend this series of lectures I try to capture one of the presentations in writing, this time I will be writing on a lecture given by Dr James Munro titled “Quant Strategies: from idea to execution”.
This is the era of algorithmic trading and marketers know well that the future of the industry lies in this. It is sure that the speed is going to be the main element of the market in the coming eras and this algorithmic trading which enables the maximum speed in trade is going to be the key feature of every stock exchange. While this is the scenario, there are certain things to be noted when it comes to algorithmic trading.
The auction of the small commercial property was barely worth noting.
Execution of trades on stock exchanges based on pre – defined criteria and without any human intervention using computer programs and software is called algorithmic trading or algo trading. While being a subset of algorithmic trading, high-frequency trading involves buying and selling thousands of shared in fractions of seconds.
Looking at the scene of quantitative finance employment, positions of quantitative traders in huge quant funds generally are considered to be a part of one the most profitable and honoured roles. In a large quant fund, trading jobs act as stepping stones and help individuals to create and run funds by themselves.
Following the dividend cut in December, all four companies of the Teekay Group (TK, TOO, TNK, TGP) went into free fall. It seems that it was not noted that TNK, unlike its 2 sister companies TOO and TGP, stated last November that it planned to significantly increase its dividends.
Having recently enrolled in the QuantInsti EPAT program, I was quite surprised to learn that a large portion of algorithmic trading was not focused on trying to predict future prices but rather on generating alpha by lowering transaction fees and improving execution prices.
This session mainly involves Mr. Rajib Ranjan borah, Quantinsti’s co-Founder and Advisory at iRageCapital, comparing algorithmic trading over different areas across the world. He talks about his experience and views on algorithmic trading over the main exchanges in the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe & Middle East. The presentation comprises of data on volumes of options and equity, traded over more than thirty exchanges, annually and monthly.
Mumbai: The Indian rupee strengthened against the US dollar on Wednesday buoyed by the biggest two-day gain in seven years in local equity markets. This was the sixth out of seven sessions when the rupee closed higher.
