Archive for the ‘Stocks’ Category
Sir Francis: the Probabilty Machine – From Chaos to Order – Randomness in Stock Prices
IFA.com – http – The random walk of stock market prices and the efficient market hypothesis is simulated by physical action of beads hitting a pattern of pins. The Efficient Market Hypothesis says prices are fair. If the expected return of an investment is 1% per month, about half the monthly returns will below and above that average return. So the fair price set at the beginning of each month sets the chance that future returns will be 50% higher and 50% lower than the expected return. The further the returns deviate from the average, the less likely they are to occur. The red bar overlay represents 600 simulated monthly returns of ifa’s Index Portfolio 100. As you can see the distribution of the beads is similar to the index portfolio.
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Stock Investing – Tips to Get the Small Investor Started in the Equity Market
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Trading Strategies For a Foolproof Portfolio
This trading strategy is a perfect combination of simplicity, diversification, and technical analysis; delivering an average of 6% gain per month over the past 42 months, this trading strategy is certain to bring you a profit in today’s turbulent markets.
Trading Options Like A Business
options like a business using “The Numbers” to methodically create, manage and adjust a portfolio of stock option trades without guesswork. When trading options like a business, you will find yourself calmly managing options positions by-the-numbers. Using option strategies like the iron condor, calendar spread, and diagonal spread you will how to create, manage and adjust a portfolio of stock options. Winning trades are automatically allowed to mature while losing trades are calmly …
Bootstrapping value at risk (VaR)
This is an illustration, using a simple portfolio of four stocks over one week, of the bootstrap method. Like the Monte Carlo, we want to simulate each stock (in the portfolio) forward in time. If today is time t, then we want to simulate the stock on t+1, t+2, t+3, etc. The key difference is: The Monte Carlo uses an algorithm (eg, geometric Brownian motion) to simulate the stock on t+1. In MCS, the randomness is applied in the algorithm; it informs the stochastic process But The bootstrap …