Tools of the Trade

is a mish-mash of economic & financial topics - explores theories, trading, stock analysis, checklists, ideas, events, math, betas, valuation methods, indexes, derivatives, programming & cartoon doodles.

Monday, May 05, 2008

How to calculate beta using an excel spreadsheet

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I've signed up with Box.net to offer a couple of spreadsheets to help finance students with their projects. Beta's a key component o...

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Trend: Rising Food Prices

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(wikipedia: picture of a farm in Hebei, China) Over here in Australia, the two blockbuster trading bets are on a rise and continued rise of ...

Sunday, April 20, 2008

From my C++ journal: Why its easier to think of the programmer as a runesmith

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Not sure how much programming gets done by analysts these days but judging by the way programming and algorithmic trading is progressing, it...

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Should Ebay sell Skype?

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Over at FT.com, " Ebay considers sale of Skype subsidiary ," says Richard Waters. From the article: Ebay will consider selling of...

Saturday, April 12, 2008

From boingboing.net: Fruit flies and Free Will

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First post at Boingboing.net: Matt sez, "A researcher at my University is working on modeling the behaviour of fruit flies. Turns out t...

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