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Dual Time Frame Momentum Strategy CapitalExposure

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:38:54 GMT

Trade in the direction of the larger time frame momentum. Execute the trade following the smaller time frame momentum reversals. It is that simple and logical. It doesn't matter what time frames you use. If you are a position trader looking for trades that last from several weeks to months, you will use weekly and daily momentum trends. If you are a swing trader looking for trades that last a few days, you will use daily and hourly data. Day traders will probably use 60-minute and 15-minute...

Info Rij PresentValue

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:09:13 GMT

Helen Morgan, CFA, has been asked by Carroll to determine the potential valuation for Sundanci, Inc., using the dividend discount model DDM . Morgan anticipates that Sundanci's earnings and dividends will grow at 32 percent for two years and 13 percent thereafter. Calculate the current value of a share of Sundanci stock using a two-stage dividend discount model and the data from Tables 17 and 18. Show your work. 8 minutes Abbey Naylor, CFA, has been directed by Carroll to determine the value of...

Incremental Working Capital PreferredStocks

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:48:07 GMT

Working capital is needed to support the sales effort of a company. In the calculation of incremental working capital, we want to find short-term assets and liabilities, the levels of which depend directly on the Projected Net Investment Schedule in millions of dollars amount of revenue. The current assets and current liability categories that most directly relate to sales are accounts receivable monies owed to the company from customers inventories monies used by the company to finance its...

Info Dfn RejectionRule

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:47:05 GMT

The idea originated back in 1991 when Bruce Babcock created a system called the Currency Conquistador. Bruce was one of the pioneers of futures trading. He was the founder of Commodity Traders Consumer Report CTCR, which is now Web-only at www.ctcr.investors.net , which I bought from him in 1996 when he was diagnosed with cancer. He was the author of one of the most popular books on trading, Dow Jones-Irwin Guide to Trading Systems, and designed many profitable systems. Perhaps his greatest...

Defined Liability and Institutional Funds MicrofinanceInvestment

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:28:57 GMT

Defined liability and institutional funds include pension funds, insurance funds, trusts and other funds managed by or on behalf of a private institution. The pension fund assets of OECD countries exceed US 8 trillion. Insurance funds in the US control over US 3 trillion.10 These funds invest in a wide variety of instruments, though regulation and fiduciary practice tend to limit most investment to high-grade, tradable securities. Some very large funds buy higher risk assets, such as venture...

Disjointed Candles Rising and Failing Windows EngulfingPattern

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:19:32 GMT

In previous sections, we've studied reversal patterns. These patterns have suggested we take action, whether to open a new position or apply money-management rules to close a position. Now we are going to explore a Japanese continuation pattern that Implies the prior trend will continue. This pattern, called a window, is synonymous with the Western pattern known as a gap. We'll discuss the fundamental concepts of windows and how they apply In different patterns. We'll also talk about some...

Fractal Range Contractions WinningTrades

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:17:12 GMT

This pattern is another inside bar set-up coupled with range contraction. Testing showed that the optimal range contraction period was 4. This is an interesting confirmation of the studies performed by Toby Crabel and Laurence A. Connors. This lends weight to the theory that characteristics of patterns tend to mimic each other regardless of the time frame. However, my studies which approach this pattern from a fractal point of view, also found that such patterns display specific bullish or...

Option Concepts SpotRate

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:21:53 GMT

The specifications of an option include, first, a clear description of what can be bought for a call or sold for a put . For options on stock, each option is usually for 100 shares of a specified stock. Thus a call option on IBM is the option to buy 100 shares of IBM. Second, the exercise price, or strike price, must be specified. This is the price at which the asset can be purchased upon exercise of the option. For IBM stock the exercise price might be 70, which means that each share can be...

Cases DangerZone

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:34:51 GMT

All investors can be multimillionaires but the centimillionaires are in G , H and A like the eight listed before me in A and Buffett. These people make more money for their clients than themselves but the amount they make for themselves is a huge amount of course these people eat their own cooking, that is, they are clients themselves with a large amount of their money in the funds they manage. An exception is someone who founded an RP or E company kept most of the shares and made an enormous...

Elliotts Market Patterns SwingSize

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:09:38 GMT

If the market rhythm is regular, wave 2 will not retrace to the beginning of wave 1, and wave 4 will not correct lower than the top of wave 1. If it does, the wave count must be adjusted Figure 2 2 . Figure 2-2 a Erroneous counting in a 5-wave up swing b correct counting in a 3-wave up-swing c erroneous counting in a 5-wave up-swing d correct counting in a 5-wave up-swing. Each of the corrective waves 2 and 4, can be subdivided into three waves of a smaller degree. The correction wave 2 and...

Linearity of Pricing and the Certainty Equivalent Form UtilityFunction

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:21:16 GMT

We now discuss a very important property of the pricing formula namely, that it is linear. This means that the price of the sum of two assets is the sum of their prices, and the price of a multiple of an asset is the same multiple of the price. This is really quite startling because the formula does not look linear at all at least for sums . For example, if 1 rf Pi Fm - rf ' 1 ij P20'm if it does not seem obvious that where f l 2 is the beta of a new asset, which is the sum of assets 1 and 2,...

Info Dvc CountryRisk

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:21:02 GMT

capital output ratio to determine growth rates. The marginal capital output ratio is supposed to measure the marginal productivity of capital and is usually calculated by dividing gross fixed domestic investment in one period by the increase in GNP one or two periods later. A lower ratio signifies a higher productivity of capital and the higher the productivity of capital, the better the outlook for GNP growth. The net capital imports gross domestic fixed investment ratio indicates the extent...

Simplified Setup TransactionProxyFactoryBean TransactionManagement

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:19:19 GMT

For the typical usage of transaction-enabling a certain object, Spring offers an alternative, simplified way of proxy configuration. TransactionProxyFactoryBean allows us to define transaction semantics for a particular target, without having to set up a standard AOP ProxyFactoryBean and a Transaction Interceptor. All relevant configuration is contained in a single transaction proxy definition lt bean id myTransactionManager lt bean id myBusinessObjectTarget lt bean id myBusinessObject lt...

The Relationship between GDP and Inflation MoneySupply

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:32:22 GMT

Aside from oil's relationship to the energy and transportation GDP components and lumber's link to housing and construction, base metals are important as leading indicators for durables, machinery, and industrial infrastructure. Tracking the price of copper, nickel, tin, lead, zinc, and iron add insight into GDP. In a booming economy, these commodities become scarce and tend to inflate. Inflation is another very important aspect of fundamental currency evaluation. The GDP inflation relationship...

Spike and Ledge Pattern StopOrder

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:30:26 GMT

The Spike and Ledge pattern was first defined by Larry Connors and Linda Raschke in the book, Street Smarts. As the name suggests, markets make a climax high or climax low New High or New Low spikes followed by a resting point or ledge then a reversal of the prior trend. A Ledge pattern is defined as a series of bars with matching lows and highs within a certain number of bars, namely 20. Usually ledge patterns are considered as a resting point before markets pick a clear direction, which is...

Capm As A Pricing Formula UtilityFunction

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:28:31 GMT

The CAPM is a pricing model. However, the standard CAPM formula does not contain prices explicitly only expected rates of return To see why the CAPM is called a pricing model we must go back to the definition of return Suppose that an asset is purchased at price P and later sold at price Q The rate of return is then r Q P P. Flere P is known and Q is random. Putting this in the CAPM formula, we have This gives the price of the asset according to the CAPM We highlight this important result...

Market Indices ExhibitShows

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:41:25 GMT

Practitioners have come to accept that a peer group universe does not fulfill all of the requirements for a good measure of relative performance. Jeffrey Bailey set out the criteria of a good performance comparison benchmark, which is unambiguous, investable, measurable, appropriate, and specified in advance.1 Peer group universes do not enjoy all of these ideal characteristics. For example, we cannot invest in an asset called the median manager return. But we still need to understand whether...

EXAMPLE 73 The Effect of Commercial Paper Issuance on Stock Prices Null Hypothesis 2

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:26:11 GMT

Commercial paper CP is unsecured short-term corporate debt that, like U.S. Treasury bills, is characterized by a single payment at maturity. When a company enters the CP market for the first time, how do stock market participants react to the announcement of the CP ratings Nayar and Rozeff 1994 addressed this question using data for the period October 1981 to December 1985. During this period, 132 CP issues 96 industrial and 36 non-industrial received an initial rating in Standard amp Poor's...

A Bollinger Band system with logic and code TradingSystems

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:04:10 GMT

We will stay with the pound dollar FOREX market from 2002-2008 Datafeed TradeStation 8 to test the system. We take a Bollinger Band system Figure 5.4 and optimise all its main six input parameters for the entry and exit points on daily data within the training period between 30 04 2002 and 1 3 2006 Figure 5.3 . Please note that this Bollinger Band system allows a different optimisation of its input parameters concerning the long and the short side. For the upper and the lower Bollinger Band the...

Management Assumption Approach OptionsAnalysis

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:35:14 GMT

Another approach to estimating volatility is through management assumptions. For instance, let's say management assumes that the present value of a particular project follows a lognormal distribution with a mean of 44 million. In addition, management assumes that this expected value can fluctuate between 30 and 60 million. These values represent the worst-case 10 percent probability and 90 percent best-case probability. See Figure 7A.1. Using Crystal Ball's Monte Carlo simulation software, the...

Info Ybe CurrencyPairs

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:23:14 GMT

FIGURE 2 NUMBER OF TRADES FOR SELECT PAIRS The number of trade signals itself a potential indication of price momentum was lowest in period 1. FIGURE 2 NUMBER OF TRADES FOR SELECT PAIRS The number of trade signals itself a potential indication of price momentum was lowest in period 1.

CrossRate Volatility MarketRisk

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:41:48 GMT

Exchange rates are expressed relative to a base currency, usually the dollar. The cross rate is the exchange rate between two currencies other than the reference currency. For instance, say that S1 represents the dollar pound rate and that S2 represents the dollar euro EUR rate. Then the euro pound rate is given by the ratio s3 eur bp ss 5 131 ln S3 ln Si - ln S2 13.2 of of of - 2p12a1 lt r2 13.3 Thus we could infer the correlation from the triplet of variances. Note that this assumes both the...

Info Rxy OperatingIncome

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:34:51 GMT

At the end of year 5, let us assume that the firm will be in stable growth, growing 4 a year in perpetuity and that the return on equity will be 12 in perpetuity as well. To estimate the terminal value of equity in the FCFE model, we first compute a stable period equity reinvestment rate Stable period equity reinvestment rate g ROE 4 12 33.33 tt , r . j rrf.i Net Income6 1- Equity Reinvestment Rate Value of equity at end of tilth year - -- --- Cost of equity - Expected Growth Rate 161.05 am i-...

Two Types of Footnotes FinancialStatements

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:19:51 GMT

Footnotes are of two kinds. First, the main accounting methods used by the business are identified and briefly explained. For instance, the particular accounting method used to determine the company's cost of goods sold expense and its ending inventory cost is identified Chapter 20 explains these methods . For many expenses and even for sales revenue most businesses can choose between two or three generally accepted accounting methods. The company's selections of accounting methods have to be...

Characteristics and Classification of Investment Projects InvestmentProjects

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:14:22 GMT

Investments can be considered from different points of view. According to the cash flow oriented perspective an investment project can be characterised by a stream of cash flows starting with an initial investment outlay - a cash outflow. The basic task for investment decision-making then will be to ascertain whether the future benefits from the investment will make the initial outlay worthwhile. An investment project is a series of cash inflows and outflows, typically starting with a cash...

Info Nsv GlobalFinancial

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:49:21 GMT

passed after Mr. Greenspan took the helm, the FOMC became ever more transparent about when it planned to lower or raise the fed funds rate and by nearly exactly how much. By the end of Mr. Greenspan's term, market expectations for what the Fed would do and when were rarely wrong. Mr. Bernanke seemingly started out with a little verbal diarrhea and an inability to know, as Mr. Greenspan did, when to say nothing or simply mumble incoherently. Greenspan was the all-time master of well-delivered...

The MDA of the Frechet Distribution BrownianMotion

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:16:16 GMT

The Frechet distribution is written as Oa x exp -x a . Let's start by observing that the tail of the Frechet distribution decays as an inverse power law. In fact, we can write 1 - Oa x 1 - exp -x a x a for x gt . It can be demonstrated that a distribution function F belongs to the MDA of a Frechet distribution Oa x , a gt 0 if and only if there is a slowly varying function L such that F x x aL x . In this case, the constants assume the values We can rewrite this condition more compactly as...

Constructing The Candlesticks WhiteCandlestick

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:50:10 GMT

Without Oars You Cannot Cross in a Boat'' A comparison between the visual differences of a bar chart and a candlestick chart is easy to illustrate. Exhibit 3.1 is the familiar Western bar chart. Exhibit 3.2 is a candlestick chart of the same price information as that in the bar chart. On the candlestick chart, prices seem to jump off the page presenting a stereoscopic view of the market as it pushes the flat, two-dimensional bar chart into three dimensions. In this respect, candlecharts are...

Info Cao EnterpriseValue

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:41:36 GMT

Source Standard amp Poor's, Bond Guide, and CreditWeek. Note Price represents percent of par YTM represents the yield-to-maturity. All prices indicated are approximate bid prices. EXHIBIT 4.19 Dillon Read's Valuation Grid for Flagstar's Senior Subordinated Debt as of Early March 1997 Smillions EBITDA 1996 actual Possible multiples Enterprise values per different multiples Less senior debt Available for all subordinated debt and Face value of senior subordinated debt Residual value as of face...

How TrendyLines and Channels SourceSolutions

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:00:29 GMT

Besides the ubiquitous horizontal support and resistance lines touched upon earlier in this chapter, trendlines and channels remain among the most utilized weapons in the technical analysis arsenal. There are almost as many ways to draw trendlines as there are traders using them in their analysis. Over time, there have also emerged countless new methodologies for drawing and interpreting these lines. But the traditional manner of constructing trendlines remains clear and focused. One would...

Info Cap OperatingIncome

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:53:18 GMT

Cost of equity Riskfree rate 2 Risk premium 4 In high growth, the high equity reinvestment rate and high return on equity combine to generate an expected growth rate of 10.66 a year. In stable growth, we reduce the return on equity for Toyota to the cost of equity, assuming that it will be difficult to sustain excess returns for perpetuity in this business. Note also that the stable growth rate is low, reflecting the fact that the valuation is in Japanese yen with the riskfree rate of 2 acting...

Introduction RewardSystem

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:13:01 GMT

This introduction contains three vignettes about famous financial mishaps the late 1990s hedge fund Long-Term Capital, Sir Isaac Newton and the South Seas bubble, and Samuel Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain and the 1860s silver fever. There is a lot to be learned from such financial failures both in the accounting facts and historical circumstances, but also in the psychology underlying the protagonists' faulty decision making. Reading the stories that follow, take note of the investment choices of...

Info Rxa WavePrinciple

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:47:20 GMT

The above labels preserve most closely Elliott's notations and are traditional, but a list such as that shown below provides a more orderly use of symbols

Concept Checkers Paz ExpectedReturn

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:56:35 GMT

Use the following data to answer Questions 1 through 3. An investment has a 50 chance of a 20 return, a 25 chance of a 10 return, and a 25 chance of a -10 return. 1. What is the investment's expected return 2. What is the investment's variance of returns 3. What is the investment's standard deviation of returns 4. Which of the following statements about covariance and correlation is least likely correct A. A zero covariance implies there is no linear relationship between the returns on two...

Info Xpn ExchangeRate

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:00:26 GMT

The NNR model made 136 transactions. Since the EUR USD time series is a series of bid rates and because, apart from the first trade, each signal implies two transactions, one to close the existing position and a second one to enter the new position indicated by the model signal, the approximate out-of-sample transaction costs for the NNR model trading strategy are about 4.55 Therefore, even accounting for transaction costs, the extra returns achieved with the NNR model still make this strategy...

Stable Pareto and ParetoLevy Densities DownsideRisk

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:47:41 GMT

The stability property of distributions often refers to a shape parameter, which stays the same regardless of the scale. Rachev and Mittnik 2000 is a huge book devoted to a discussion of the properties of distributions include the estimation of stable distributions in finance. We discussed the simple Pareto density in Section 4.4.1. Here we consider its extensions, which are of interest in finance because they have various desirable properties of fat tails, excess kurtosis, and skewness, for...

g 1 Covbit1Mt1 g b g f h Covbit1Mt1 g 2J2 Eb11gM4 EtbMt1 g Eb11gC1f1h em g M OptionPrices

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:14:36 GMT

which corresponds to equation 2.7 . According to 2.19 and 2.21 , the first term on the RHS of 2.18 is 2.22.1 Etk 1 pj Et - X g Tzt 1TVbzt g1 2 eM - C B h Using the factor definition in 2.20 , we get k rTz, xTVb z, e, i 2.22.2 e,ki pw -E,, q Fz, vb z, f Computing the expected value and given that the random shocks are assumed to have zero mean, this expression may be simplified to Et mM pM -ll g Tzt An Bn _Tp I - Ffq Fzt s - An- X Bn-T a I - F ffl - Cg T Bn-1T F h Z Also according to 2.19 , 2.20...

Info Nsf CurrentAccount

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:34:51 GMT

As the commodity boom got under way, much talk circulated regarding the role of speculators in accelerating the rally in commodities. Chapter 8 is devoted strictly to the fundamentals underpinning the rise in gold and metals as well as energy and agricultural commodities. But let us take a glance at the role of speculators in gold over the past 17 years. Figure 1.16 indicates a fairly positive correlation between the price of gold and the amount of net long short positions accumulated in the...

Point Process of Exceedances or Peaks over Threshold BrownianMotion

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:31:17 GMT

We have now reviewed the behavior of sums, maxima, and upper order statistics of continuous random variables. Yet another approach to EVT is based on point processes herein we will use point processes only to define the point process of exceedances. Point processes can be defined in many different ways. To illustrate the mathematics of point processes, let's first introduce the homogeneous Poisson process. A homogeneous Poisson process is defined as a process N t that starts at zero, i.e., N 0...

Peter Panholzer BrokerDealers

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:42:09 GMT

One of the most respected names in the managed FOREX business is Peter Panholzer. Mr. Panholzer is the founder of Dynex Corp and commands the fees and account minimums that long-term success in the markets confer. See Figure 13.11. Source DynexCorp, Ltd, www.dynexcorp.com. A number of companies track individual and fund FOREX account performance.

Bbsdinqdicom Lfv PresentValue

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:48:51 GMT

Porter, Michael E. Competitive Advantage Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance. New York Free Press, 1985. Porter, Michael E. Competitive Strategy Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. New York Free Press, 1980. Porter, Michael E. How to Conduct an Industry Analysis. In The Financial Analysts Handbook, 2d ed., ed. Sumner N. Levine. Homewood, Ill. Dow Jones-Irwin, 1988. Stewart, Samuel S. Forecasting Corporate Earnings. In The Financial Analysts Handbook, 2d ed., ed. Sumner...

Info Fcy Dollar Index 2

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:41:29 GMT

price moves, as well as other patterns. Figure 2 shows the review period using weekly bars, but the analysis was performed on daily data. To get a handle on typical moves vs. what could be considered outliers, Tables 1 and 2 show the EUR USD's basic The Technical Analyzer generates live intraday technical signals. FOREX CAPITAL MARKETS, FINANCIAL SQUARE 32 OLD SLIP, 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10005 USA. 1.866.392.6647 WARNING Trading foreign exchange on margin carries a high level of risk and may...

Using the ProxyFactoryBean TransactionManagement

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:29:59 GMT

The basic way to create an AOP proxy in Spring is to use org.springframework.aop.framework.Proxy FactoryBean. This gives complete control over the pointcuts and advice to apply, and their ordering. There are also simpler options that are preferable if you don't need such control, which I'll discuss later. We need to perform the following basic steps to advise an object using the Spring ProxyFactoryBean class Define the necessary pointcuts, interceptors, or other advice as objects in the...

Empirical cdf and QuantileQuantile QQ Plots DownsideRisk

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:27:04 GMT

Rather than disregard the normal distribution in all applications, we will give it the benefit of the doubt and let the numbers tell us if an approximation is good. A test of the goodness of fit is usually made for discrete pdf's like the binomial and Poisson by preparing a table of observed Obs and fitted Fit values with say j 1,2, , k rows. The Pearson goodness of fit statistic is simply where we have inserted an additional subscript j for the jth row. We reject the null hypothesis of a good...

The Share Alphabet Definitions Of Shares Available In Mainland Chinese Companies DangerZone

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:32:42 GMT

A-shares shares of mainland companies traded in the mainland exchanges. The prices of A-shares are quoted in RMB, and currently only mainlanders and selected foreign institutional investors are allowed to trade A shares. B-shares shares of mainland companies traded in the mainland exchanges B-shares are quoted in foreign currencies and in the past, only foreigners were allowed to trade them. Since March 2001, mainlanders have been able to trade B-shares as well. However, they must trade with...

The Asymptotic Solution of Whalley and Wilmott VolatilityTrading

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:24:47 GMT

If we assume that the transaction costs are small relative to the value of the option in the BSM world , it is possible to derive some approximate solutions to the full problem. This was first done by Whalley and Wilmott 1997 . They show that the boundaries of the no-transaction regions are given by A pexp -r T - t XSr2V 49 where X is the proportional transaction cost that is, transaction costs are of the form where N is the total number of shares traded Although the authors considered the case...

Survivorship Bias And Tests Of Market Efficiency RateReturn

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:05:57 GMT

We've seen that survivorship bias might be one source of the equity premium puzzle. It turns out that survivorship bias also can affect our measurement of persistence in stock market returns, an issue that is crucial for tests of market efficiency. For a demonstration of the potential impact of survivorship bias, imagine that a new group of mutual funds is set up. Half the funds are managed aggressively and the other conservatively however, none of the managers are able to beat the market in...

Answers Concept Checkers Aml ExpectedReturn

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:42:15 GMT

1. B 0.5 x 0.2 0.25 x 0.1 0.25 x-0.1 0.1, or 10 2. B 0.5 0.2 - 0.1 2 0.25 0.1 - 0.1 2 0.25 -0.1 - 0.1 2 0.005 0 0.01 0.015 4. B If the correlation of returns between the two assets is -1, the set of possible portfolio risk return combinations becomes two straight lines see Figure 5 . A portfolio of these two assets will have a positive variance unless their portfolio weights are those that minimize the portfolio variance. Covariance is equal to the correlation coefficient times the product of...

Trading Psychology and Investor Behavior ProfitTarget

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:46:35 GMT

The market price of a stock at any exchange never represents the company's fair value. The stock instead is trading either above or below that valuation. Over the past couple of years, the potential discrepancy between market capitalization and fair value became painfully obvious to investors. Supported by analysts' unrealistic price forecasts, many high-tech stocks reached untenable high prices and then, in some instances, became worthless because there was no real value behind these...

Pictures and Attractors Warren Buffett 2

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:08:35 GMT

Time-series data are conventionally plotted using simple Cartesian geometry. For example, to plot a time series of a stock's price, price is plotted on the vertical axis and chronological time is plotted on the horizontal axis. In physics, the usual Cartesian graphs can be turned into more powerful pictures called phase portraits plotted in phase space, a presentation that can depict the full range of possibilities for a system. The pendulum is the paradigm for illustrating the differences...

The Index Model and the Expected ReturnBeta Relationship RateReturn

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:55:41 GMT

Recall that the CAPM expected return-beta relationship is, for any asset i and the theoretical market portfolio, where p, Cov R,, Rm ctM. This is a statement about the mean of expected excess returns of assets relative to the mean excess return of the theoretical market portfolio. If the index M in equation 10.9 represents the true market portfolio, we can take the expectation of each side of the equation to show that the index model specification is A comparison of the index model relationship...

Exponential Smoothing Technical Analysis 3

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:43:22 GMT

Exponential smoothing may appear to be more complex than other techniques, but it is only another form of a weighted moving average. It has the added advantage of being simpler to calculate than any other method discussed only the last exponentially smoothed value E,,i and the smoothing constant a are necessary to compute the new value. The technique of exponential smoothing was developed during World War II for tracking aircraft and projecting their position the immediate past is used to...

Trade Sccrcts TradeSecrets

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:36:47 GMT

Buy when the K_ the faster moving line goes below 20 and turns up. Sell short when the K goes above 80 and turns down. Don't forget to trade only in the same direction as the hourly trend. 3. Stops Use an initial stop of 100 points, or put a closer stop just beyond a recent trading range. When the trade is 100 points ahead, it is a good idea to raise the stop to break even. 4. Exits Take profits when the K hooks in the opposite direction from 80 or - 20. Another strategy is to watch the...

The Multifactor Capm Merton BrownianMotion

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:36:45 GMT

The CAPM assumes that the only risk that an investor is concerned with is uncertainty about the future price of a security. Investors, however, are usually concerned with other risks that will affect their ability to consume goods and services in the future. Three examples would be the risks associated with future labor income, the future relative prices of consumer goods, and future investment opportunities. Recognizing these other risks that investors face, in 1976 Robert Merton extended the...

When to Sell and Take Your Profit GeneralMarket

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:08:35 GMT

Common stock isjust like merchandise that is bought and sold for a profit. You, as the merchant, must sell your merchandise in order to realize a profit. It is best to learn to sell on the way up while your stock is still advancing and looks strong to everyone else. By doing this, you will avoid getting caught in the 20 to 40 corrections which occur periodically in market leaders and cause great downside portfolio volatility. It is far better to sell early. If you are not early, you will be...

Info Okx StochasticDiscount

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:46:52 GMT

to the large sample distribution.'' The large sample distribution o J under the mill hypothesis will be chi-square with the degrees of freedom equal to the number of restrictions imposed by the null hypothesis. 6.2.1 Portfolios as Earlors with a IliskJ'ree Asset We first consider the case where the factors are traded portfolios and there exists a riskfrec asset. The unconstrained model will be a AMaclor model expressed in excess returns. Define Z, as an Nxl vector of excess returns for N assets...

Bayesian Statistics Dynamic Hedging 2

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:17:58 GMT

In this chapter, we describe modern Bayesian parameter estimation and show how the method is applied to the RSLN model for stock returns. The major advantage of this method is that it gives us a scientific but straightforward method for quantifying the effects of parameter uncertainty on our projections. Unlike the maximum likelihood method, the information on parameter uncertainty does not require asymptotic arguments. Although we give a brief example of how to include allowance for parameter...

Bbsdinqdicom Cdg PresentValue

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:06:08 GMT

MILLER STORES DATA EXTRACTED FROM MARCH 31, 1997, FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOOTNOTES 1. The Company's real estate policy is to own its stores thus, the Company has no operating leases. 2. The Company does not sell or securitize its accounts receivable. 3. All inventories are valued on the last-in, first-out LIFO cost basis. As of March 31, 1997, inventories were 700 million lower than they would have been had the first-in, first-out FIFO cost basis been used. 4. Actuarial present value of...

The Theory of the Second Best EmergingEconomies

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:43:51 GMT

Considerations of multiple equilibria and contagion lead naturally to the insights provided by the theory of second best, which dates back to the 1956 work of two economists, Kelvin Lancaster and Richard Lipsey. Their analysis considered how best to react to situations in which one or more optimal condition is not met. Intuitively, you would think that the best approach would be to continue meeting the other optimal or first best conditions. Based on their findings, however, Lancaster and...

Acknowledgments RewardSystem

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:02:08 GMT

1 wrote this book over several years. So many people influenced its production that I cannot possibly do justice to their contributions here. I am very appreciative of my family and friends, who provided their love and encouragement. Thanks especially to Sarah, my amazing wife, for her unflagging optimism and patience during the writing of the book. My gratitude is profound. I am extremely indebted to the efforts of hundreds of researchers and research assistants whose experiments form the...

Preface DangerZone

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:06:09 GMT

This book discusses scenarios for risk management and developing global investment strategies. We are guided by the use of careful analysis to generate prospective scenarios. Simply put, what are the chances that various future events will occur over time How should these events and their chances influence investment decisions Assessing all possible outcomes is fundamental to risk management, financial engineering and investment strategies. We believe that a careful consideration of future...

Information Ratio ExhibitShows

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:40:48 GMT

Tracking error is useful in measuring the degree of historical return deviation from the benchmark. But what if we have an active strategy designed to divert from the benchmark in order to exceed the benchmark return We would be interested in measuring the gains over and above the benchmark return relative to the benchmark risk taken, as measured by the tracking error. We do this because in many situations we can earn the benchmark return itself with little tracking error and at low cost by...

Wingspreads ImpliedVolatility

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:56:54 GMT

This chapter covers butterfly spreads and other wingspreads such as irons, condors, stretched out condor skip-strike butterflies and unbalanced butterflies. They all have similar risk reward characteristics and sensitivities. In addition, there are pregnant multi-strike butterflies that have many single-strike butterflies inside them. Wingspreads are strategies that traders employ when they believe that the market will land within a specified range and within a specified time frame. In addition...

Estimating the Index Model RateReturn

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:19:45 GMT

Equation 10.3 also suggests how we might go about actually measuring market and firm-specific risk. Suppose that we observe the excess return on the market index and a specific asset over a number of holding periods. We use as an example monthly excess returns on the S amp P 500 index and GM stock for a one-year period. We can summarize the results for a sample period in a scatter diagram, as illustrated in Figure 10.1. CHAPTER 10 Single-Index and Multifactor Models 297 CHAPTER 10 Single-Index...

Some Red Herrings CorporateGovernance

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:23:46 GMT

The first person to respond to the ad offered to pay 50, which, he said, was what he could get for selling the apple tree for firewood after he cut it down. You don't know what you are talking about, the old man chastised. You are offering to pay only the salvage value of this tree. That might be a good price for a pine tree or even this tree if it had stopped bearing fruit or if the price of apple wood had gotten so high that the tree was more valuable as a source of wood than as a source of...

More Reversal Formations WhiteCandlestick

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:29:08 GMT

Put a Lid cn What Smells Bad The reversal formations in Chapters 4 and 5 are comparatively strong reversal signals. They shew that the bulls have taken ever from the bears as in the bullish engulfing pattern, a morning star, cr a piercing pattern cr that the bears have wrested control from the bulls as in the bearish engulfing pattern, the evening star, or the dark-cloud cover . This chapter examines more reversal indicators which are usually, but not always, less powerful reversal signals....

Market OrdersOn the Spot SourceSolutions

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:02:26 GMT

Depending on the specific strategy or type of trading preferred, foreign exchange traders often rely heavily upon market orders. A market order simply means that a trader wishes to enter a currency position at the present moment, whether it is an order to buy long or sell short a specific currency pair. The main functionality that differentiates this type of order from others is the fact that a market order is executed at the current market price, as opposed to a future price level. Market...

The Discounted FCFF Valuation Approach PreferredStocks

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:07:24 GMT

The discounted FCFF valuation approach uses a four-step process to value the stock of a company. In this section we value the common stock of Microsoft, at a point in time prior to its announcement on January 16, 2003 of a two-for-one stock split to take effect on January 28th. If you follow along with us closely, you'll quickly learn the basics about valuing a stock. Step 1 Forecast Expected Cash Flow. The first order of business is to forecast the expected cash flows for the company. We use...

Conclusion Olm QuantitativeAnalysis

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:57:33 GMT

In this chapter we have defined the geometric properties of that set of portfolios all risk-avoiding investors would hold regardless of their specific tolerance for risk. We have defined this set the efficient frontier under alternative assumptions about short sales and the ability of the investor to lend and borrow at the riskless rate. Now that we understand the geometric properties of the efficient frontier, we are in a position to discuss solution techniques to the portfolio problem. This...

Info Qij PresentValue

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:16:43 GMT

a. Calculate the effective duration of Tranche T-3. Assume that the relevant current yield is 7.0 percent. Show your work. 5 minutes b. Identify the tranche with the negative convexity. Calculate the effective convexity of this tranche. Show your work. 5 minutes Table 4 shows the option-adjusted spread for four different mortgage pass-through securities. MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH OPTION-ADJUSTED SPREADS ASSUMING INTEREST RATE VOLATILITY OF 8 PERCENT Option-Adjusted Spread Security in Basis Points...

Info Fhs PresentValue

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:43:32 GMT

a. Calculate, as of the call date, 1 the price of a share of Euro Disney expressed in U.S. dollars and 2 the exchange value conversion value of a 1,000 face value note in U.S. dollars. 6 minutes b. On July 21, 1993, Disney issued, at par, 300 million of 100-year bonds with a coupon rate of 7.55 percent. The bonds are callable in 30 years at 103.02. From Disney's point of view, state three disadvantages of calling the zero coupon notes and effectively replacing part of that debt capital with the...

The Markov Property of Solutions of SDE PricingEquation

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:17:21 GMT

A process X t is said to satisfy the Markov property, or to be Markovian, if the random properties of the process at time s gt t, conditional on information at time t, only depend on the value of the process at time t. This means that the process does not have a memory of events before the observation time that will influence its stochastic properties beyond the observation time. In other words, the behavior of the process beyond the observation time does not depend on the trajectory that the...

Jump Diffusion DownsideRisk

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:07:04 GMT

The jump diffusion process recognizes the fact that not all stock movements follow a continuous smooth process. Natural disasters, revelation of new information, and other shock can cause a massive, instantaneous revaluation of stock prices. To account for these large shocks, the normal diffusion is augmented with a third term representing these jumps m-1k di sdz dq, 1.4.4 where l is the average number of jumps per unit of time, k is the average proportionate change of the jump the variance of...

Scalp Trading the 1min Charts System MinuteChart

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:05:50 GMT

Scalp trading is when you use the 1 to 5 min charts to 'scalp' small profits. These trades usually only last a few minutes to an hour. You can use the FPS to scalp trade Forex on the 1 min charts. Here is how Instead of using the 10, 25, 50 EMA's like we did in the above examples, put on the 25, 50 and 100 EMA's. Often it is best to scalp trade at the London Open 3 00 AM EST or the New York open 8 00 AM EST because that is generally when the currency pairs will start to move more in one...

The 5034z Trade PriceMovement

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:35:34 GMT

As we saw in the above two trade examples, the trend on any given time frame will change as the day or week progresses. The price bars will move above and below the 34 ema and the 50 cci will close above and below the zero line in harmony with each other. The third trade that drbob and dharma have established is really very similar to the 5034 mentioned above. In fact, it is the very next trade in their sequence of three trades to set-up. What happens is that as the trend changes from say short...

WellDiversified Portfolios RateReturn

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:46:10 GMT

Now we look at the risk of a portfolio of stocks. We first show that if a portfolio is well diversified, its firm-specific or nonfactor risk can be diversified away. Only factor or systematic risk remains. If we construct an n-stock portfolio with weights w , 1, then the rate of return on this portfolio is as follows is the weighted average of the p of the n securities. The portfolio nonsystematic component which is uncorrelated with F is which similarly is a weighted average of the e of the n...

BlackScholes Formula for the GMMB Dynamic Hedging 2

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:33:36 GMT

The GMMB is a straightforward put option on the segregated fund. Assume a fund value at the valuation date t 0 of Fo. Let G denote the guarantee, and assume first that the guarantee is fixed. The insurer's liability under the GMMB at maturity in, say, T years is G - FT . This is identical to the put option, with strike price G and underlying asset Ft. Under standard Canadian contract terms for policies of this type, G is typically 75 percent or 100 percent of the initial single premium for the...

Price Diffusion Bachelier BrownianMotion

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:11:14 GMT

In 1900, the Sorbonne University student Louis Bachelier presented a doctoral dissertation, Th orie de la Sp culation, that was to anticipate much of today's work in finance theory. Bachelier's advisor was the great French mathematician Henri Poincar . There were three notable aspects in Bachelier's thesis He argued that in a purely speculative market stock prices should be random. He developed the mathematics of Brownian motion. He computed the prices of several options. To appreciate the...

Spreads and Arbitrage Technical Analysis 3

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:52:32 GMT

position taken in opposing directions in related markets, contracts, options, or shares is called a spread, or straddle. When the dynamics of the spread can be defin itively calculated, such as the price of two bonds of the same maturity and the same grade, or the price of gold in two different locations, the transaction can be considered an arbitrage. For futures markets, the most common use of the term spread relates to two delivery months of the same market. For example, a trader may take a...

Info Fke ForexTrading

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:04:22 GMT

Patterns that endure over time through 20 or more candles demonstrate sentiment stability. The best visualization of this is the channel pattern. Channels can be sideways or tilted downward or upward. It is called a channel pattern because the patterns are similar to a river channel, and, in fact, the geometry and energy flow of water in a river channel is very similar to the movements prices make when forming a channel pattern. Channel patterns in forex trading are examples of traders using...

Step I Study the Target and Determine Key Performance Drivers ProjectionPeriod

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:31:13 GMT

As a first step, we reviewed the basic company information provided on ValueCo. This foundation, in turn, allowed us to study ValueCo's sector in greater detail, including the identification of key competitors and comparable companies , customers, and suppliers. Various trade journals and industry studies, as well as SEC filings and research reports of public comparables, were particularly important in this respect. From a financial perspective, ValueCo's historical financials provided a basis...

Info Ovk PresentValue

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:22:14 GMT

NewSoft's shares have higher price earnings P E and price book P B ratios than those of Capital Corp. Identify and briefly discuss three reasons why the disparity in ratios may not indicate that NewSoft's shares are overvalued relative to the shares of Capital Corp. Answer the question in terms of the two ratios, and assume that there have been no extraordinary events affecting either company. 6. As the chief investment officer for a money management firm specializing in taxable individual...

Discounting the Media Machine and Advanced Fad Avoidance GlobalFinancial

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:50:30 GMT

You may be tempted to ignore the media altogether since what you hear or read is either wrong or has already been discounted into current prices. There is some rationality to that view, but it's wrong. By all means, don't avoid mass media it's your friend and ally on your quest to invest by knowing what others don't. The media is a discounting machine you must read watch, listen to the media to know what everyone else is focused on so you know exactly what you can ignore and look away from and...

Maxprof3.cpp Position.h PotentialProfit

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:30:58 GMT

For convenience, it is best to complete the development of the three individual algorithms with the program in the file maxprof3.cpp, which uses all of them. include lt iostream gt include lt iomanip gt include lt string gt include lt cmath gt using namespace std include Prices.h include PotentialProfitAlg.h include ProfitAndLossAlg.h include FirstPLReserveAlg.h include SecondPLReserveAlg.h using namespace PPBOOK cin gt gt market gt gt nContracts gt gt imargin gt gt mmargin gt costs double...

Contents of this Page Uva FibonacciNumbers

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:49:56 GMT

The i line means there is a Things to do investigation at the end of the section. From 2-dimensional flat shapes, we turn to 3-dimensional ones solids . JDice Shapes We need symmetry in dice if they are to be fair, but is the cube the only possible shape No, there are 5 and only 5 fair dice shapes J Coordinates and other statistics of the 5 Platonic Solids m The Tetrahedron J The Cube or Hexahedron m The Octahedron m The Dodecahedron Some other relationships between these shapes M Golden...

The Lag Operator L BrownianMotion

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:52:01 GMT

Let's now simplify the notation by introducing the lag operator L. The lag operator L is an operator that acts on an infinite series and produces another infinite series shifted one place to the left. In other words, the lag operator replaces every element of a series with the one delayed by one time lag The n-th power of the lag operator shifts a series by n places Negative powers of the lag operator yield the forward operator F, which shifts places to the right. The lag operator can be...

Capturing Overseas Risk in the CAPM SharePrice

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:13:42 GMT

Using the CAPM, a shareholder located in country F, with a diversified portfolio of domestic investments, would required a return on a new domestic investment equivalent to the 'local' CAPM-derived cost of equity local risk free rate beta based on local market x local Equity Risk Premium ERP . A shareholder located in country H, making the same investment in country F, may have a diversified portfolio of investments located in country H and or other countries and could have a worldwide...

Exhibit 623 ImpliedVolatility

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:32:46 GMT

Diamonetric Grid Identifies AUG Expiration Range of 260 to 300 with 280, Target Price. Diamonetric Grid Identifies AUG Expiration Range of 260 to 300 with 280, Target Price. Vit' st 71 it . i'ti I f- M.-af Apr via i'jy Aug Vu- i 1 '. Vit' st 71 it . i'ti I f- M.-af Apr via i'jy Aug Vu- i 1 '. Chart courtesy of ProphetFinance.com Dissecting out wingspreads by hand can be very messy, so it is important to be methodical. This trade was a 2-strike butterfly but was managed as 4 embedded baby...

The lx1 Angle CursorPrice

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:00:17 GMT

One of the most confusing parts of Gann's work has to do with the 1x1 angle or the so called 45 angle. A 1x1 angle in its simplest form rises at the rate of 1 cents or 1 per day, week or month. In Gann's day he was charting soybeans with a chart scale of 1 cent per grid line. He wrote in his commodity course about the 1x1 angle rising at 1 cent per day. In the same course he refers to it as the 45 angle. A chart line rising at the rate of 1 cent per day will be a 45 angle if and only if the...

The Live 1x1 Angle CursorPrice

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:35:00 GMT

Many Ganntraders use the Live 1x1 angle. In the Ganntrader you can set the Live 1x1 Angle selection under the Setup menu. It allows you to match the 1x1 to the markets actual moves. You can connect a major low to a major high, for example, and consider that the chart's natural angle. This feature works in conjunction with the Selected Angles mode. You must have at least one angle on the screen. 'Move To' the angle of interest and select Live 1x1 Angle under the Setup menu. Hold the Left mouse...

An Introduction to Security Valuation PresentValue

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:21:13 GMT

After you read this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions gt What are the two major approaches to the investment process gt What are the specifics and logic of the top-down three-step approach gt What empirical evidence supports the usefulness of the top-down approach gt When valuing an asset, what are the required inputs gt After you have valued an asset, what is the investment decision process gt How do you determine the value of bonds gt How do you determine the value...

Risk Management Project Plan OperationalRisk

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:07:08 GMT

We can take the RAMP template for risk management to derive the project plan. This is to provide effective and timely support for all the banking staff to cope with market developments over the next 10 years. Meeting challenges for the bank include Evaluating and reporting of strategic long-term risks for the board of directors. Handling new products, particularly securitised assets and equity derivatives. Online, real-time mark-to-market pricing for front office. Basel II compliance reporting...

Things You Need to Know Before Trading Forex EntryPoint

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:43:58 GMT

In the game of baseball, there are players who win games for their team through sheer speed. Often referred to as speed demons, they intimidate opponents with their talent for stealing bases and scoring runs. Other players are known for their ability to knock the ball out of the park. Known as power hitters, these players have the ability to shift the momentum of a game with a single swing of the bat. Another group of players is known for their defensive prowess. Their talent for negating the...

Developing a Strategy MutualFund

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:28:26 GMT

Eager to begin a career as an investment professional, John became a stockbroker. While other stockbrokers were complaining about the recession and the poor performance of the markets, John was optimistic after all, if this was the worst of times in the market, it would not even compare to Vietnam. What differentiated John from the rest of the brokers was his ability to manage risk the biggest lesson he learned in war. He developed a convertible hedging strategy, which included buying...

Caffeine RewardSystem

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:41:41 GMT

Caffeine is unusual in its diversity of neurological effects. Caffeine itself promotes vigilance in some people, but a sizable minority of caffeine users experience nervousness and irritability. Caffeine is consumed in coffee, black tea, green tea, energy drinks, sodas, and other beverages. While caffeine increases alertness, improves mood, and facilitates faster task performance in the short term, its role in financial decision making appears unstudied. Two notable findings have emerged...

Msquared Return ExhibitShows

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:50:23 GMT

Most investors are intuitively comfortable interpreting the economic meaning conveyed by a rate of return. Some are comfortable interpreting the various measures of risk based on the idea of return deviations. Professional investors understand the information conveyed by the Sharpe ratio. But many consumers of performance measurement statistics, not working day to day with these tools, find Sharpe ratios confusing because they do not know its inputs and meaning. If an investor does not know...

Worksheet Date ProfitunityTrading

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:40:04 GMT

Figure 10-5 Key areas of the rhythm column. zeros. Remember that our profession is one of speculation and as good and highly paid speculators we must see paradigm changes before the masses do. When a move becomes obvious to everyone, it will have all four arrows in the same direction. By then, most likely, it will be too late to climb aboard. It will definitely be too late to squeeze the maximum amount of available profit from the move. I would want an overriding reason before I would place a...

Trading the Number Line with MAD Pivot Range 2

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:19:28 GMT

The pivot moving average lines provide you with yet another point of reference for making a trade. This concept does not replace the micro ACD or the number line. Rather, used in conjunction with these other indicators, you provide yourself with a better, more complete trade setup. For example, let's say the 30-day macro ACD number line is at 7. The pivot moving average lines are sloped upward, although the market has dipped below the 14-day line. Now today the market trades higher, above the...

Distress Bij Mbos FinancialDistress

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:20:44 GMT

DeAngelo and DeAngelo 1987 review the early history of managerial buyouts MBOs . From 1973-1982 they identify 64 buyout proposals made by managers of New York and American Stock Exchange listed firms. They identify eight factors that are important in the decision to effect a management buyout. These are 1. Potential improvement in managerial incentives 2. Save costs of disseminating information to stockholders 3. Company secrets are better protected 4. Tax savings of interest tax shields and...

Info Rom PresentValue

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:43:45 GMT

Source William N. Goetzmann and Roger G. Ibbotson, The Performance of Real Estate as an Asset Class, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 3, no. 1 Spring 1990 65-76. Reprinted with permission. Source William N. Goetzmann and Roger G. Ibbotson, The Performance of Real Estate as an Asset Class, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 3, no. 1 Spring 1990 65-76. Reprinted with permission. correlations of annual real estate returns with the returns on other asset classes

Risk Management To Pick Up The Pieces OperationalRisk

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:37:58 GMT

There are additional techniques to deal with the risk spectre. Scenario analysis lets us think wider to encapsulate more dramatic risk events. These include the Exxon Valdez and Hurricance Andrew extreme risk events that drove many companies to the brink of bankruptcy. There cannot have been a more damaging and unthinkable recent disaster than September 11th. CASE STUDY BUSINESS CONTINUITY, LESSONS FROM SEPTEMBER 11TH This sad episode was a tragic extreme risk event, and we must use it as an...