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Financial hikes: Margins
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By right means if you can, but by any means, make money -Horace (65 BC - 8 BC). Tuesday, July 13, 2010. Volatility: In simple terms, it means how often does the price of a stock change. We can calculate volatility of a stock as follows -. There can be different types of margins that are enforced by the exchange -. The actual margin that you are charged is a sum of these two. Labels: Extreme loss rate. July 13, 2010 at 10:59 PM. I actually understood this one! August 17, 2010 at 3:30 AM. 9829;♥z...
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Financial hikes: Total_Delivered_Qty / Total_Traded_Qty
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By right means if you can, but by any means, make money -Horace (65 BC - 8 BC). Saturday, July 10, 2010. Total Delivered Qty / Total Traded Qty. Total traded qty delivered. Mystical figures, they seemed at first! So why would anyone want to do this? Large traders might just choose to do heavy buying at the start of trading to make the prices artificially go up. And then, they might sell off all those shares towards the end session and pocket the difference. Make the right choice for the second term.
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Financial hikes: Options - Basics
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By right means if you can, but by any means, make money -Horace (65 BC - 8 BC). Friday, January 1, 2010. To be, or not to be, that is the question. Hamlet, Act III, Scene I). What is an option:. Let us assume that our hypothetical option comes for a price of $2. The asset on which the buyer of the option has a right to trade is called as the option underlying or underlier. The date till which the option is effective is called as the expiration date. The price at which the underlier. Underlier = IBM stock.
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Financial hikes: High Frequency Trading
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By right means if you can, but by any means, make money -Horace (65 BC - 8 BC). Thursday, December 24, 2009. The speed of communication is wondrous to behold. With the advent of computers around 1980, the notion of algorithmic trading started taking shape. As explained in my previous post on " Market Makers. A few of the strategies used by these HFT traders are as follows:-. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Trading strategy: Sniffer programs. Trading strategy: Iceberg orders. Things that intrigue me.
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Financial hikes: Buy side firms and Sell side firms
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By right means if you can, but by any means, make money -Horace (65 BC - 8 BC). Saturday, December 26, 2009. Buy side firms and Sell side firms. I have been reading about financial markets for a while, and often encountered this terminology of "buy-side and sell-side firms". Earlier, I was too lazy to know what it really meant and just overlooked it, since it never became a road block to my overall understanding of the actual topic i would be reading :-P Anyways, here it is, finally! Buy side firms and S...
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Financial hikes: July 2010
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By right means if you can, but by any means, make money -Horace (65 BC - 8 BC). Tuesday, July 13, 2010. Volatility: In simple terms, it means how often does the price of a stock change. We can calculate volatility of a stock as follows -. There can be different types of margins that are enforced by the exchange -. The actual margin that you are charged is a sum of these two. Labels: Extreme loss rate. Saturday, July 10, 2010. Total Delivered Qty / Total Traded Qty. Total traded qty delivered. If the perc...
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Financial hikes: Dark liquidity pools
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By right means if you can, but by any means, make money -Horace (65 BC - 8 BC). Sunday, December 27, 2009. Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. - Oprah Winfrey. What are Dark Pools:. What is the need for them:. These pools are owned by private brokers like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs etc. They may also be shared across multiple brokerage houses. Alternate trading systems (ATS), as they are refered by,. Provide internal crossing of clien...
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Financial hikes: Options pricing - underlying factors
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By right means if you can, but by any means, make money -Horace (65 BC - 8 BC). Saturday, January 2, 2010. Options pricing - underlying factors. Note that below discussion is in context of stock options for the simplicity of explanation. Theoretical value of an option contract comprises of two main components -. Any amount of premium paid over the intrinsic value is the time value of that option contract. It indicates the amount of extra money above intrinsic value. Time until expiration - This forms a p...
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Financial hikes: Trading strategy: Iceberg orders
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By right means if you can, but by any means, make money -Horace (65 BC - 8 BC). Saturday, December 26, 2009. Trading strategy: Iceberg orders. False face must hide what the false heart doth know. Macbeth Act I Scene VII). A small part of the total order onto the market (before its execution) and hide. Total size of the order. Maximum size to be displayed at any given point (know as "Disclosed quantity"). Consider this hypothetical case:. Iceberg order - total-qty=300 , Disclosed-qty=50. Initially, the br...
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