Tuesday, April 24, 2012

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Blog Post: TheReformedBroker: The European Vice

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT

But as the budget-cutting pain of reduced government benefits and social services brings protesters to the streets and drives support for nationalist or far-left parties, it is not clear what the economic alternative might be.

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The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets - Supplementary Materials, Research and Reviews http://t.co/9BCXQyON #quant #tcm

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:24 AM PDT

moneyscience: The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets - Supplementary Materials, Research and Reviews http://t.co/9BCXQyON #quant #tcm

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Sample Chapter: 'Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers' by Jared Dillion - http://t.co/bbWSNS7e #tcm

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:24 AM PDT

moneyscience: Sample Chapter: 'Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers' by Jared Dillion - http://t.co/bbWSNS7e #tcm

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The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets - Supplementary Materials, Research and Reviews http://t.co/7331ciXQ #quant #tcm

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:17 AM PDT

fin_tech: The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets - Supplementary Materials, Research and Reviews http://t.co/7331ciXQ #quant #tcm

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RT @BusinessSchools: @Cassinthenews: Cass Actuarial students to receive prizes from GAAPS http://t.co/9h8joN5Z

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:03 AM PDT

moneyscience: RT @BusinessSchools: @Cassinthenews: Cass Actuarial students to receive prizes from GAAPS http://t.co/9h8joN5Z

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Blog Post: FINalternatives: Harbinger Pays Early, And More Than The Minimum

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 03:01 AM PDT

Harbinger Capital Management may have a lot of headaches, but a loan default and forced asset sale will not be added to them next month.read more...

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Wiley-Blackwell Finance Newsletter - April

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 02:50 AM PDT

  Wiley-Blackwell Finance Newsletter:   Trading   Welcome to the Wiley-Blackwell Finance Newsletter. In this edition, we're offering you FREE access to the latest research on Trading. Wiley-Blackwell publishes some of the most widely read, frequently cited, and highly-ranked journals in the ISI's Business Finance category. Read the studies below, and find out...

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@Cassinthenews: Cass Actuarial students to receive prizes from GAAPS http://t.co/9h8joN5Z

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 02:36 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: @Cassinthenews: Cass Actuarial students to receive prizes from GAAPS http://t.co/9h8joN5Z

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Blog Post: QFINANCE: Why You Should Care About Warren Buffett's Prostate

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 02:22 AM PDT

Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Book Review: The Facebook IPO Primer

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 01:30 AM PDT

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: If Zappos were a bank, it would be the happiest bank in the world

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 12:32 AM PDT

I’m in Dubai this week and picked up a magazine at the airport on the flight out.  It was one of the freebies on the newsstands â€" CNBC’s Business magazine â€" and the front page caught my eye partly because it had bank written on it, and partly because it had a big, happy smiley face.read more...

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Blog Post: HighFrequencyTradingReview: SIX Financial Information Turns to OneTick for Market Data Platform Re-Architecture

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 11:22 PM PDT

SIX Financial Information Turns to OneTick for Market Data Platform Re-Architecture

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Blog Post: FinanceProfessor: Why U.S. Companies Continue to Pay Dividends - Bloomberg

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:30 PM PDT

Published / Preprint: Optimal simulation schemes for L\'evy driven stochastic differential equations. (arXiv:1204.4877v1 [math.PR])

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:35 PM PDT

We consider a general class of high order weak approximation schemes for stochastic differential equations driven by L\'evy processes with infinite activity. These schemes combine a compound Poisson approximation for the jump part of the L\'evy process with a high order scheme for the Brownian driven component, applied between the jump times. The overall approximation is analyzed using a...

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Published / Preprint: Record Statistics for Multiple Random Walks. (arXiv:1204.5039v1 [cond-mat.stat-mech])

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:35 PM PDT

We study the statistics of the number of records R_{n,N} for N identical and independent symmetric discrete-time random walks of n steps in one dimension, all starting at the origin at step 0. At each time step, each walker jumps by a random length drawn independently from a symmetric and continuous distribution. We consider two cases: (I) when the variance \sigma^2 of the jump...

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Published / Preprint: Value matters: Predictability of Stock Index Returns. (arXiv:1204.5055v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:35 PM PDT

The aim of this paper is twofold: to provide a theoretical framework and to give further empirical support to Shiller's test of the appropriateness of prices in the stock market based on the Cyclically Adjusted Price Earnings (CAPE) ratio. We devote the first part of the paper to the empirical analysis and we show that the CAPE is a powerful predictor of future long run performances of the market...

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Published / Preprint: Study of statistical correlations in intraday and daily financial return time series. (arXiv:1204.5103v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:34 PM PDT

The aim of this article is to briefly review and make new studies of correlations and co-movements of stocks, so as to understand the "seasonalities" and market evolution. Using the intraday data of the CAC40, we begin by reasserting the findings of Allez and Bouchaud [New J. Phys. 13, 025010 (2011)]: the average correlation between stocks increases throughout the day. We then use...

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: Who Gets the Equity Risk Premium?

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:29 PM PDT

A big question about low volatility outperformance is why it exists. Explanations range from the nature of geometric compounding, measurement issues, some strange manifestation of risk, or the fact that investors prefer sexy stocks for lots of reasons (principle-agent problems,  overconfidence, winners curse). Now, the latter theories are most plausible to me, but they also require...

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Blog Post: AllAboutAlpha: EDHEC, EMA in Broad Concord on ETFs

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:24 PM PDT

In January, the European Securities and Markets Authority set out in a consultation paper its guidelines on exchange traded funds and other issues relating to the Undertaking for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities, and it asked for comments by March 30. Much of the ESMA paper involves issues of tracking and disclosure.

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Blog Post: EconometricsBeat: Natural Resources and Canadian Real Income Growth

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 01:08 PM PDT

In today's issue of The Daily, Statistics Canada has released a terrific study titled "The Role of Natural Resources in Real Income Growth". The paper's authors are John Baldwin and (former UVic. grad. student) Ryan McDonald. (H.T. to Ryan for bringing this to my attention.) The study itself is extremely comprehensive, and provides some interesting new results about long-term...

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Cass Actuarial students to receive prizes from GAAPS

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:32 AM PDT

£1,000 will be awarded to the best MSc Actuarial Science and MSc Actuarial Management students

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MT @ritholtz: University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets. Hmm. http://t.co/XIam2Quc

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:14 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: MT @ritholtz: University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets. Hmm. http://t.co/XIam2Quc

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Event: Model Risk, Quants, and the Law

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 07:49 AM PDT

Location: Credit Suisse Auditorium, 11 Madison Avenue at 24th, New York, NY 10010; Date: April 26th, 2012; Moderator: Viktor Ziskin Head of Modeling and Risk Analytics at Capco Quantitative Lead on the Independent Compliance Consultant at AXA Rosenberg Panelists:read more...

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Blog Post: TimingLogic: The Cycle Of Volatility: NASA Fermi Gamma Ray Explorer Is Picking Up 'Crazy-Energetic Photonsâ From Mysterious Objects At The Edge Of The Electromagnetic Spectrum

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 07:40 AM PDT

How about we shake it up a little today?  Shake it up a lot.  A provoking post before we get back to more mundane ‘stuff’.   We all live in this bubble we  believe is reality.  A bubble we convince ourselves is real.  Oftentimes provocation is the only way we ever awaken from that bubble.  That’s coming.  For everyone.  It’s inevitable...

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Blog Post: TalesfromaTradingDesk: Sinclair ZX Spectrum ' 30 Years Old

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 07:10 AM PDT

I had a ZX Spectrum, followed by a Sinclair QL. A lot has changed in 30 years And what about the Horace gamesread more...

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Blog Post: FinanceClippings: Speculation and Oil Prices (again).

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 06:54 AM PDT

The Grumpy Economist has an excellent piece on how speculation is unlikely to be causing oil price increases.   Read it because the author, John Cochrane, rarely pulls punches.  He's great (and also very smart). Great quote: It's also worth noting that on that same day, there were 146,000 May natural gas contracts traded... By what mysterious process can all this within-day buying and...

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