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What is Advent Software's Geneva?
Advent Geneva is a complex event processing platform, which employs the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and big data. It employs techniques derived from blockchain technology and ...
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Criteria to assess the possibility of corporate bankruptcies in U.S. equity exchange markets
Since the stock is listed on NASDAQ, you have access to fairly standard 10Q and 10K financial statements. So you can apply the analysis pioneered by Ed Altman in his Z-score paper - compare this ...
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Criteria to assess the possibility of corporate bankruptcies in U.S. equity exchange markets
I have been told:
Bankruptcy is very controversial Google Scholar Researchers.
You might track companies ratios (e.g., debt to equity ratio, ...
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How to calculate the net return of each "partner" at different times?
Generally, managers take subscriptions and redemptions periodically, the frequency of which is defined in their offering documents. At the end of each period (daily, monthly, quarterly, etc), a NAV ...
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IPO Valuation: Share Pricing and Number of Shares
IPO valuation is super sophisticated. There is usually a Managing Underwriter, who has a team of analysts/asset pricers/investment bankers/lawyers/etc. with complicated terms and they go and value a ...
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Periodic investments with compound interest: where's the mistake?
The reasoning - without any math - is as follows.
At the beginning of each year, you get a cash amount $I_a$ that you can either invest instantly, so that it will yield $I_a*r$ over the next period, ...
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How to calculate performance of a private equity investment?
I am not an expert on GIPS, with its many pages of rules, but I do remember that under GIPS Private Equity results are to be given in terms of IRR (Internal Rate of Return). In most other cases (stock/...
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Why aren't ETNs always listed with an inverse ETN?
The reverse 3x ETN and the daily 3x ETN are not inverse to each other due to convexity and they do not offset each other.
Let's say you have 1 million AUM in each (i.e. the ETN delta is +3 million ...
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Differences between editions of Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd?
I have read the 2008 and the 1988 version. The 2008 version is the 1940 version with commentary by accountants in added chapters to bring the book up to current methods and to discuss what changed in ...
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Are Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable already included in revenue?
Your understanding of the mechanics of the construction of a cash flow statement is correct.
The cash flow statement, which operating cash flow is part of, is a reconciliation of net profit from the ...
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Open Interest on Stocks
In my opinion, your intuition that their definition is crap is correct.
Google doesn’t give me another source that uses this definition either.
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Are Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable already included in revenue?
The way accounting is done for these might help:
When you sell something:
DR Accts Receivable, CR Revenue
So you have added to Revenue and therefore net income, but you did not get any cash. You got ...
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Why aren't ETNs always listed with an inverse ETN?
I think the primary obstacle is the costs involved/potential revenue offered for distributors. ETNs are already uncommon and their market isn't the same as standard equity ETFs; inverse ETNs even ...
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What is the difference between volatility and dispersion in finance?
Regarding terminology, dispersion is sometimes used to refer to a trade which is short index correlation, i.e. you are betting that the constituents of a certain index (usually an equity one like the ...
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What is the difference between volatility and dispersion in finance?
Dispersion (also called variability, scatter, or spread) is the extent to which a distribution varies (to the left and right) from its central tendency. Sample variance, $\sigma^2$ is the most common ...
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How to test a strategy with a small capital?
try a demo account of fair broker (Interactive Brokers if you are able to base account there) and you will see if it really works (1 month min)
if it works good, find an investor (managed account is ...
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What are some quantitative approaches to value investment?
Pros of value investing
Many of the best investors in the world use it (e.g. Warren Buffett)
It is logical and based on common sense
Does not require constant monitoring of your stocks
Cons of value ...
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