My guess is that the Schedule D-1 is wrong because a corporate action is treated improperly. I generated my own Schedule D-1 using TradeLog....
I know liquidation will never happen as our government seems intent on doing as little as possible to upset the old order, but might the financial...
What if McCain belonged to a white supremacist America hating church? Both candidates are getting passes on certain things.
Why would cutting executive compensation be worse than going bankrupt? Don't the executives stand to lose everything through layoffs and a stock...
Lo's argument is very good and his simple trading model of shorting yesterday's winners and buying yesterday's losers closely correlates to the...
Freddie and Frannie guarantee trillions of dollars in mortgage backed securities, they don't actually own all of the securirties. The 850...
My basic understanding of the matter is that the goal is for this browser to eventually become the OS in that as many apps as possible will run...
I like to think that the retail equity traders will outmaneuver the big guys in the coming years. As theoddlot.net mentioned, we're smaller and...
The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index lists the following strategies: Convertible Arbitrage Dedicated Short Bias Emerging Markets...
For equities, the black boxes were largely pair trading systems until maybe 2003. The strategies are more complicated now, but the principles are...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121820203736224137.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news "UBS AG has agreed to buy back $19.4 billion in auction-rate...
I'm just a small trader with a market neutral system, and if I can't readily short shares through IB, I'm out of business. From what I...
It's slow and it failed to find some news articles I read this morning when I typed in key words associated with those articles. Google, Yahoo,...
If the whole system blows up, we're all in the same boat. It's not clear to me that you can really prepare for such a dire scenario. Maybe you can...
I have heard to expect the pre-borrow rule for shorting to expand to the whole market rather soon. Cox openly said he advocates it in the WSJ.
Suppose there is some illegal naked short selling going on and the SEC action will put an end to it. Short term legal short sellers aren't stupid....
You can calculate the the covariance given the correlations and volatilities. Correlation(x, y) = Covariance(x,y)/Volatility(x)/Volatility(y)...
Try comparing the Masters of Financial Engineering from Baruch to the Masters of Mathematical Finance at NYU. I can tell with certainty that the...
I find myself reading this board and writing a first post because of the utter frustration of the last few weeks. I run a very small automated...
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