Wednesday, May 2, 2012

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Blog Post: HighFrequencyTradingReview: A New Way to Level the Equity Market Playing Field

Posted: 02 May 2012 04:40 AM PDT

(This article is the conclusion of a four-part series called A Question of Fairness: How to Level the Financial Markets Playing Field, which originally appeard on the Tabb Forum. To read Part One, Inequality in Equity Trading: How Did We Get Here?, click here. To read Part Two, On Trading Advantages and Trading Systems' Vulnerability, click here. And to read Part Three:...

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Blog Post: FINalternatives: Cantor Fitzgerald Vet Ben Liss Joins KeyPoint

Posted: 02 May 2012 04:39 AM PDT

KeyPoint Capital, a Dallas-based opportunistic hedge fund specializing in real estate-related equity securities, has hired Ben Liss as an analyst.read more...

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Blog Post: QFINANCE: The West has much learn from Islamic finance

Posted: 02 May 2012 03:27 AM PDT

Blog Post: mathfinance: First International Conference on Futures and other Derivative Markets

Posted: 02 May 2012 02:58 AM PDT

First International Conference on Futures and other Derivative Markets15-16 October 2012 Beihang University, Beijing, Chinaread more...

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RT @GokhanKula: Diversified Risk Parity Strategies for Equity Portfolio Selection http://t.co/kKDRUlPf Provides maximum diversification ...

Posted: 02 May 2012 02:10 AM PDT

moneyscience: RT @GokhanKula: Diversified Risk Parity Strategies for Equity Portfolio Selection http://t.co/kKDRUlPf Provides maximum diversification ...

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Blog Post: Debtwatch: Nowhere to Grow

Posted: 02 May 2012 01:32 AM PDT

The lack of expansion in the Australian private credit markets is certainly having an adverse effect on commerce in the post 2008 financial crisis period. Annual private credit growth has averaged 3.5%, since it dropped down to single digit figures in October 2008. Personal credit and business credit have been the deadweight’s, averaging an annual […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: There is no such thing as identity theft

Posted: 02 May 2012 01:07 AM PDT

So I just had a meeting with a couple of heavyweights in the cybersecurity field.read more...

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The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F ⸠Top stories today via @rotmanschool @richlyons @libertyu

Posted: 02 May 2012 12:28 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F â–¸ Top stories today via @rotmanschool @richlyons @libertyu

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The Rise of Fractional Scholarship and the Ronin Institute - http://t.co/lltSvM07 @jonfwilkins

Posted: 01 May 2012 11:11 PM PDT

BusinessSchools: The Rise of Fractional Scholarship and the Ronin Institute - http://t.co/lltSvM07 @jonfwilkins

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RT @MoneyScience - Using high performance computing and Monte Carlo simulation for pricing american options. http://t.co/FJC3OQqs

Posted: 01 May 2012 11:06 PM PDT

fin_tech: RT @MoneyScience - Using high performance computing and Monte Carlo simulation for pricing american options. http://t.co/FJC3OQqs

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The multimillionaire men of Lehman - @FelixSalmon http://t.co/FKK08MK8 #tcm

Posted: 01 May 2012 11:02 PM PDT

moneyscience: The multimillionaire men of Lehman - @FelixSalmon http://t.co/FKK08MK8 #tcm

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Book Review: Abnormal Returns

Posted: 01 May 2012 10:18 PM PDT

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Blog Post: PsyFiBlog: Mindless With Money

Posted: 01 May 2012 10:17 PM PDT

Non-conscious Numbskulls We all know the feeling of mindlessness. You get it when you drive the same roads as usual and get out at the end not remembering anything about the journey, or when you eat a meal without tasting it, or leave a meeting without the faintest idea what just happened. Yet to everyone around us we’ve behaved just the same way we always do. There’s something really odd...

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: Do Subsidies Increase or Decrease Costs?

Posted: 01 May 2012 06:37 PM PDT

I guess this is debatable (who knew?). Federal college aid has risen 165% over the past decade, and college and college costs have risen about 74% over that same period. Yet some think that increased costs are from our stingy federal government.  For example, Jesse Jackson over at Huffpost notes: College tuition is soaring because the state contribution to budgets is being slashedObama...

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Published / Preprint: Using high performance computing and Monte Carlo simulation for pricing american options. (arXiv:1205.0106v1 [cs.DC])

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:33 PM PDT

High performance computing (HPC) is a very attractive and relatively new area of research, which gives promising results in many applications. In this paper HPC is used for pricing of American options. Although the American options are very significant in computational finance; their valuation is very challenging, especially when the Monte Carlo simulation techniques are used. For getting...

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Published / Preprint: How does the market react to your order flow?. (arXiv:1104.0587v2 [q-fin.TR] UPDATED)

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:33 PM PDT

We present an empirical study of the intertwined behaviour of members in a financial market. Exploiting a database where the broker that initiates an order book event can be identified, we decompose the correlation and response functions into contributions coming from different market participants and study how their behaviour is interconnected. We find evidence that (1) brokers are very...

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Blog Post: AllAboutAlpha: Of Falling Risks and Indexes

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:23 PM PDT

Any quantitative strategy is susceptible to being reduced to an index, and along with this, to transparency and routine. Once this happens, that "alpha" becomes "beta," and the 2 + 20 fees are no longer available. A manager in search of alpha will have to move beyond that strategy, peeling away that layer of the onion and going to a deeper, not-yet-indexable, strategy.

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Blog Post: relmbo: Finance Clippings: NC Treasurer race - why fees are what really matte...

Posted: 01 May 2012 04:21 PM PDT

Finance Clippings: NC Treasurer race - why fees are what really matte...: The local ABC channel (11) reported last night  that the NC Treasurer's office has uncovered wide spread fraud among retirees.  Examples inc...

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Blog Post: FinanceClippings: 10 things your commencement speaker won't tell you

Posted: 01 May 2012 03:39 PM PDT

With graduation around the corner, here's one from the Wall Street Journal. Quote: Is that pretty girl Phi Beta Kappa? Marry her. Actually that's what I did and it's worked out pretty well. Thanks to my colleague Melissa for the link.

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Blog Post: TheReformedBroker: The Rundown

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:16 PM PDT

I've been away from the terminal for four hours this afternoon taking care of business.  Catching up to the following stories/issues: 1.  Sears Holdings ($SHLD) [...]

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Blog Post: substructural: Mobile App Builders

Posted: 01 May 2012 01:31 PM PDT

In this day and age of mobile ubiquity and ever shorter attention spans, it seems that everyone and his uncle are jumping on the mobile app bandwagon. I was doing a little investigating to see how much does it typically cost to build one of these apps. The anecdotal range floating about appears to be in the low tens of thousands. Unsurprisingly, a number of entrepreneurial people have sought to...

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Space Law: Is Asteroid Mining Legal? http://t.co/nnhNZu6D #tcm

Posted: 01 May 2012 12:46 PM PDT

moneyscience: Space Law: Is Asteroid Mining Legal? http://t.co/nnhNZu6D #tcm

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@icmacentre: ROM Simulation: Applications to Stress Testing and VaR http://t.co/FvHK4UQ2

Posted: 01 May 2012 12:35 PM PDT

BusinessSchools: @icmacentre: ROM Simulation: Applications to Stress Testing and VaR http://t.co/FvHK4UQ2

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Blog Post: EconometricsBeat: Stressful Times at Statistics Canada

Posted: 01 May 2012 11:55 AM PDT

An independent, well-funded, and well-staffed central statistical agency is a prerequisite for rational public policy-making. Statistics Canada is currently under a severe threat. This is very bad news for those of us who use statistical data to do our jobs, but it's even worse news for the StatCan professionals who are directly affected. © 2012, David E. Giles

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Published / Preprint: A Confidence Representation Theorem for Ambiguous Sources with Applications to Financial Markets and Trade Algorithm

Posted: 01 May 2012 11:51 AM PDT

This paper extends the solution space for decision theory by introducing a behavioural operator that (1) transforms probability domains, and (2) generates sample paths for confidence from catalytic fuzzy or ambiguous sources. First, we prove that average sample paths for confidence/sentiment, generated from within and across source sets, differ. So conjugate priors should be used to mitigate the...

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Blog Post: TimingLogic: NYSE Composite Update

Posted: 01 May 2012 06:57 AM PDT

I have posted this graphic a few times on here, both before the 2008 collapse and since. Without looking it up, I think the last time I posted this view of the NYSE Composite was right after the end of version one of quantitative easing. I may have posted it at a later date as well but it really doesn't matter. I have posted all of the labeling I keep on the chart for your review. I think it...

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MBAs compete for £5,000 sustainable business prize - http://t.co/UYyeZIwH

Posted: 01 May 2012 06:53 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: MBAs compete for £5,000 sustainable business prize - http://t.co/UYyeZIwH

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Last Thursday, 3 groups of business students were awarded a combined $1 million to implement 3 social business plans http://t.co/icBGxn02

Posted: 01 May 2012 06:53 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: Last Thursday, 3 groups of business students were awarded a combined $1 million to implement 3 social business plans http://t.co/icBGxn02

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Trending: More Chinese Women Are Going to Business School - http://t.co/bEWugDV3

Posted: 01 May 2012 06:53 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: Trending: More Chinese Women Are Going to Business School - http://t.co/bEWugDV3

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Complex Event Processing: The Next Big Thing in Computational Finance? http://t.co/nAuvIVoy #hft #tcm

Posted: 01 May 2012 06:25 AM PDT

fin_tech: Complex Event Processing: The Next Big Thing in Computational Finance? http://t.co/nAuvIVoy #hft #tcm

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Revisiting: The 'Tyranny' of US Peer-Reviewed Journals in Economics and Business http://t.co/bRUUgzCf #tcm

Posted: 01 May 2012 06:25 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: Revisiting: The 'Tyranny' of US Peer-Reviewed Journals in Economics and Business http://t.co/bRUUgzCf #tcm

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RT @hftreview: Neutrinos to Give High-Frequency Traders the Millisecond Edge [Forbes] http://t.co/aEvmruZk #hft

Posted: 01 May 2012 06:01 AM PDT

fin_tech: RT @hftreview: Neutrinos to Give High-Frequency Traders the Millisecond Edge [Forbes] http://t.co/aEvmruZk #hft

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Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa : Top stories today via @dorothyfriedman @sungardcm @claradan @blpnt

Posted: 01 May 2012 06:00 AM PDT

fin_tech: Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jdseecpa â–¸ Top stories today via @dorothyfriedman @sungardcm @claradan @blpnt

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Published / Preprint: The Return of Financial Repression (CEPR DP8947)

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:50 AM PDT

The Return of Financial Repression Author(s): Carmen Reinhart CEPR Discussion Paper Number 8947 Paper Details | PDF Download* | Purchase Electronic | Purchase Printed Programme Area(s): Financial Economics (FE) Date of Publication: 01/04/2012 Keyword(s): capital controls, debt, financial repression, inflation, interest rates, regulation JEL(s): E2, E3, E6, F3, F4, H6, N10 ...

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Via @MargRev - Systematic review of publication bias in studies on publication bias - http://t.co/FIjVdk84

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:48 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: Via @MargRev - Systematic review of publication bias in studies on publication bias - http://t.co/FIjVdk84

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Research Library: Systematic review of publication bias in studies on publication bias (2005, pdf)

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:44 AM PDT

Hans-Hermann Dubben, Hans-Peter Beck-Bornholdt Abstract Publication bias is a well known phenomenon in clinical literature in which positive results have a better chance of being published, are published earlier, and are published in journals with higher impact factors. Conclusions exclusively based on published studies, therefore, can be misleading. Selective underreporting of research might...

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Brilliant - @SSRN Financial Crises eJournal http://t.co/2DkD9dFs

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:35 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: Brilliant - @SSRN Financial Crises eJournal http://t.co/2DkD9dFs

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Research Library: Frontostriatal White Matter Integrity Mediates Adult Age Differences in Probabilistic Reward Learning (pdf)

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:33 AM PDT

Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, Sara M. Levens, Lee M. Perry, Robert F. Dougherty and Brian Knutson Abstract Frontostriatal circuits have been implicated in reward learning, and emerging findings suggest that frontal white matter structural integrity and probabilistic reward learning are reduced in older age. This cross-sectional study examined whether age differences in frontostriatal white matter...

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Research Library: SSRN Financial Crises eJournal

Posted: 01 May 2012 05:19 AM PDT

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Financial-Crises.html Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Financial-Crises Editors: G. William Schwert Professor, Distinguished University Professor of Finance and Statistics, University of Rochester – Simon School, and Rene M. Stulz Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics, Ohio State University (OSU) – Department...

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