Thursday, February 6, 2014

MoneyScience News

MoneyScience News


Published / Preprint: The $500.00 AAPL close: Manipulation or hedging? A quantitative analysis. (arXiv:1402.0910v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 05:37 PM PST

Why do a market's prices move up or down? Claims about causes are made without actual information, and accepted or dismissed based upon poor or non-existent evidence. Here we investigate the price movements that ended with Apple stock closing at \$500.00 on January 18, 2013. There is a ready explanation for this price movement: market manipulation by those who sold stock options, who stood to...

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Published / Preprint: Spatial and temporal structures of four financial markets in Greater China. (arXiv:1402.1046v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 05:37 PM PST

We investigate the spatial and temporal structures of four financial markets in Greater China. In particular, we uncover different characteristics of the four markets by analyzing the sector and subsector structures which are detected through the random matrix theory. Meanwhile, we observe that the Taiwan and Hongkong stock markets show a negative return-volatility correlation, i.e., the...

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Published / Preprint: Optimal allocation of wealth for two consuming agents sharing a portfolio. (arXiv:1402.1052v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 05:37 PM PST

We study the Merton problem of optimal consumption-investment for the case of two investors sharing a final wealth. The typical example would be a husband and wife sharing a portfolio looking to optimize the expected utility of consumption and final wealth. Each agent has different utility function and discount factor. An explicit formulation for the optimal consumptions and portfolio can be...

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Blog Post: WealthandCapitalMarketsBlog: Social Trading

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 09:36 AM PST

This blog post will focus on the topic of “social trading” in Europe, which is a method of online, self-directed trading where users connect with each other in an online setting to share investment knowledge and copy each other’s trades.read more...

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Why Swiss banks are no longer so private

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 04:47 AM PST

Further to the previous two entries about Swiss Banking (the settlements of the Knights Templar and the Protestant Reforms), we move into the 16th century with Switzerland proving an attractive ground for migration of the Protestants persecuted overseas.read more...

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Vendor News: Fidessa explores rise of futures algos

Posted: 05 Feb 2014 04:42 AM PST