eDerivatives allows to monitor changes in implied volatilities for major global equity indices, examine entire volatility surfaces and rotate them to view from different angles, compare surfaces among the major indices and over time.
The Standish Group's Chaos Report describes two-thirds of IT projects as being "challenged." Now, three academics have published a report suggesting these numbers are flawed, and that only one-third of IT projects actually fail. If this new report is accurate, it represents a significant departure from common perceptions of IT...
Architecting an application requires an understanding of the environment that the application will be deployed in. One must make assumptions about who will use the application and how they will use it. For environments with factors that create uncertainty and a potential for change, this paper discusses approaches and tools...
Forex Trade Utilities is a small and useful market tool for calculating the values of Pivot Point, Two Days Volatility and Cost Average. It saves time and you don't have to calculate these parameters manually or use the online calculators.
We're asleep at the wheelthe biggest invader is spywareanymore, i spend more time clening that off pc's and laptops then virusesYou Think Ofall the vulnerabilities that security can provide,and then gain at the trait of wich security if for - to keep data safe. So I ask you,why does it...
Finanza Real-Time is in a class of its own on the Macintosh - providing a powerful, feature-rich, and elegant solution. Finanza Real-Time offers features previously in Windows-only solutions. Finanza Real-Time provides professional-level features such as: streaming real-time quotes, real-time news, historical quotes, portfolio management tools, and alerts. Finanza Real-Time...
Finanza Real-Time is in a class of its own on the Macintosh - providing a powerful, feature-rich, and elegant solution. Finanza Real-Time offers features previously in Windows-only solutions. Finanza Real-Time provides professional-level features such as: streaming real-time quotes, real-time news, historical quotes, portfolio management tools, and alerts. Finanza Real-Time...
In this report we explain the properties and the theory of both variance and volatility swaps, first from an intuitive point of view and then more rigorously. The theory of variance swaps is more straightforward. We show how a variance swap can be theoretically replicated by a hedged...
Financial calculator that solves all sorts of problems involving the time value of money. Choose from 51 financial calculations: Assets: capitalized cost - classic and MACRS depreciation Bonds: bond book value, duration, price and yield - zero-coupon bond price and yield Dates: term date - date series - year...
A time of unprecedented market volatility and competition calls for a new business strategy. Integrated business planning can help you keep your finger on the market pulse, reduce planning iterations, accelerate decision making, and ensure that your plans are more actionable and your forecasts are more accurate, regardless of market...
IsoBourse is designed to help traders and investors find out valid opportunities on the Stock Exchange and foreign exchange Forex by introducing an innovative and effective tool to better understand and invest in the financial markets. Technical analysis includes many different indicators and aims at forecasting future market action (trend,...
In the last several months, all have witnessed financial market turmoil at a level unprecedented in the post-Depression era. At the same time, many North American life and non life insurers have been implementing EC methods designed to help manage risk and capita levels. Most commonly, these measures are based...
Simple Spreadsheet with Stock Options Online Indicators. Implied Volatility, Covered Call Rate and Coverage for all stock options listed and expirations. Useful for beginners to understand important stock options indicators and simulate them on real time.
It must be mainstream if Unisys and IBM are blessing it Lately, I’ve done a couple of briefings with some large, serious, mainstream firms who have whispered their SaaS software as a service plans to me. Let’s start with Unisys. Unisys is a...
Options computes the price of the option and the important Greeks. The required inputs are Option type- call or put, price of the underlying security, strike price, today's date, expiration date, volatility, risk free interest rate, and dividend date. The outputs are price, the Black Scholes price of the option...
In this economy, IT and engineering departments are not only lean, but many of them naturally become more risk-averse. That's bad for business because successful companies and IT groups use technology as an innovative and competitive advantage and in order to do that you have to take some healthy risks....
Companies worldwide are confronting a period of extreme volatility in commodity and other prices as well as exchange rates. This has intensified the challenge of dealing with changing customer requirements, a shifting competitive landscape and business cycle issues. Sustaining profitability in this environment is difficult for even the best-run companies.
How many iPhones will Apple have to sell next year, to justify a $5 bump upward in its stock price? 22.9 million, says a small number-crunching shop, operating mostly out of Mumbai. That sounds like a lot. Last year, Apple...
NumXL Functions implement quantitative statistical and econometric functions for applications to capital markets. Key features of the NumXL Functions for Excel include: Descriptive statistics - Function for sample mean, standard deviation, skewness, excess kurtosis, and correlation. Statistical tests 1- Function for testing the mean, standard deviation, skewness and excess kurtosis....
Worldwide mobile phone shipments fell 15.8 percent in the first quarter to 244.8 million units. Smartphone shipments, however, were up 4 percent as carriers upped subsidies on that type of device, according to IDC. IDC said in a statement that the mobile phone shipment decline was "especially...
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