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The Strange Equation of physics that turned our world Upside Down
Posted Mar 07, 2010 |
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Valuation of Callable Options and Structures
Posted Feb 10, 2010 |
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MBA Toolkit: Corporate Finance Quiz #1
Posted January 29, 2010 |
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Rathke's Law may come back to haunt the Asian stock markets this decade
Posted January 06, 2010 |
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More on Risk Analysis of Multi-Asset Options
Posted January 02, 2010 |
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Risk Analysis of Multi-asset options
Posted December 25, 2009 |
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Maximizing Entropy and the 50:50 rule in the financial markets
Posted December 18, 2009 |
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“Who wants to be in the U.K.?”Adam Smith for sure, but what about Nassim Taleb
Posted December 11, 2009 |
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Are you Smarter than a Goldman Sachs Trader? Quiz (Quiz # 5)
Posted December 4, 2009 |
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New Equity Structured Product: Nifty Level Allocator
Posted November 20, 2009 |
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Raising Transition Probability Matrices to Non-Integer powers - a problem in Quantitative Finance
Posted November 12, 2009 |
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How do we model Stochastic Correlations?
Posted October 25, 2009 |
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Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio - An Eigenvalue problem
Posted October 13, 2009 |
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What is Model free Implied Volatility?
Posted October 12, 2009 |
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Estimating Implied Volatility using Newton-Raphson method
Posted September 27, 2009 |
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Analysing the Determinant of a Variance-Covariance or a Correlation Matrix
Posted September 22, 2009 |
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Borels Law and the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy
Posted September 16, 2009 |
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In Finance, we use the counterintuitive, Physics-type “Randomness”
Posted September 14, 2009 |
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What are “Linear” and “Non-Linear” systems?
Posted September 9, 2009 |
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Back to School Quiz (Quiz # 1)
Posted September 7, 2009 |
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Four Questions in Finance that befuddles the mind these days?
Posted August 31, 2009 |
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Are you Smarter than a Goldman Sachs Trader? Quiz (Quiz # 4)
Posted August 25, 2009 |
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Understanding the Black-Scholes Partial Differential Equation (PDE)
Posted August 9, 2009 |
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Are you Smarter than a Goldman Sachs Trader? Quiz (Quiz # 3)
Posted August 6, 2009 |
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Are you Smarter than a Goldman Sachs Trader? Quiz (Quiz # 2)
Posted July 23, 2009 |
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Are you Smarter than a Goldman Sachs Trader? Quiz (Quiz # 1)
Posted July 5, 2009 |
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Financial Engineering Problems FE Problem Set 18
Posted June 29, 2009 |
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Exotic Option Strategies for the current market
Posted June 20, 2009 |
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Financial Engineering Problems FE Problem Set 17
Posted May 10, 2009 |
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Worst of Up and Out Put Option Vega Risk and the Correlation Skew
Posted June 11, 2009 |
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What does the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formula really tell us?
Posted June 06, 2009 |
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Indias Unexpected Growth Is the Feldman-Mahalanobis Model finally paying off?
Posted May 31, 2009 |
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Worst of Up and Out Put Option Need for such a Structure and its Risk Management
Posted May 23, 2009 |
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The Problem with measuring risk sensitivities in Black-Scholes Option pricing model
Posted May 23, 2009 |
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Japan shrinking, East Asian Exports plunging are the “Flying Geese” finally dead?
Posted May 21, 2009 |
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Why are Asset paths unpredictable in the short run?
Posted May 16, 2009 |
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Like you, we are all Bayesians, Mr Greenspan!
Posted May 13, 2009 |
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Why do we have Log Returns in continuous time finance?
Posted May 10, 2009 |
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How Random are Random Numbers in a Monte Carlo Simulation problem
Posted May 08, 2009 |
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The Great Depression, the Great Inflation and the Great Moderation and now what?
Posted April 29, 2009 |
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Financial Derivatives Quiz (Quiz # 9)
Posted April 26, 2009 |
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“Bernie of Wall Street” and “Bernie the Beatnik” - A Half a Century of American Capitalism
Posted April 13, 2009 |
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True or False: Over the past thirty years “Even Warren Buffet got lucky.”
Posted March 31, 2009 |
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When a Stochastic Differential Equation blows up on an Excel spreadsheet
Posted March 25, 2009 |
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Market and Credit Risk Quiz (Quiz #4)
Posted March 17, 2009 |
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Debt-Equity Irrelevance: Is this the end of the Miller-Modigliani (MM) Paradigm?
Posted March 09, 2009 |
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The Problem with the Probability measure
Posted February 26, 2009 |
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Paul Volcker talks about financial engineers and the “Nuremberg” excuse
Posted February 21, 2009 |
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“Manhattan project” again - who created the Credit Default Swaps bomb?
Posted February 15, 2009 |
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"Economic Holocaust" and the Nuremberg Trials for Bankers
Posted February 14, 2009 |
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The Exotic World of Financial Options - Derivatives Quiz (Quiz#8)
Posted February 5, 2009 |
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Financial Derivatives Quiz (Quiz # 7)
Posted February 2, 2009 |
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Quiz on Financial Economics & Economic Sciences (Quiz #4)
Posted January 28, 2009 |
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Alan Greenspan and Robert Rubin Getting Killed by Probability
Posted January 23, 2009 |
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The American Affluent Society Is there a need for more Vacuum Cleaners or Street Cleaners?
Posted January 17, 2009 |
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Robert Rubin - Putting stars in the eyes of the Quants!
Posted January 11, 2009 |
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Uncertainty Principle in Quantitative Finance and Probabilistic Correlation
Posted January 1, 2009 |
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Quantum Random Walk Could this be a model of Financial Assets?
Posted December 27, 2008 |
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Economics and the Theory of Finance It Aint Physics!
Posted December 23, 2008 |
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The "Zero-Space" in interest rates, financial assets, and our lives! Part II
Posted December 19, 2008 |
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The "Zero-Space" in interest rates, financial assets, and our lives! Part I
Posted December 17, 2008 |
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Quantity Theory of Money the Fisher-Friedman Illusion!
Posted December 4, 2008 |
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India - E Pluribus Unum
Posted November 29, 2008 |
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FEAT 31 - Financial Engineering Aptitude Test.
Posted November 17, 2008 |
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Heston Stochastic Volatility Model and pricing second generation Exotics
Posted November 10, 2008 |
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Obama Victory – Let’s finally bury the Friedman Doctrine
Posted November 5, 2008 |
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Quiz on Financial Economics & Economic Sciences (Quiz #3)
Posted October 30, 2008 |
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Bringing Game Theory to Wall Street
Posted October 22, 2008 |
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Anatomy of a Recession and the Depression Economics
Posted October 15, 2008 |
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Paul Krugman and “The Return of Depression Economics”
Posted October 12, 2008 |
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A Credit Default Swap (CDS) is a proxy for a Put Option on the Assets of a Firm
Posted October 5, 2008 |
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Is this bailout then “History’s Most Expensive Orgy”?
Posted September 29, 2008 |
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Small Probabilities and Rare Events – What the Lehman Bozos didn’t Understand
Posted September 15, 2008 |
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“Random Walk” or the “Lehman Walk”?
Posted September 14, 2008 |
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Bankers Also Cry
Posted September 12, 2008 |
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The Resurgence of Stochastic Volatility Models
Posted August 10, 2008 |
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Trader’s Quiz on Volatility: Quiz # 4
Posted August 10, 2008 |
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Trader’s Quiz on Volatility: Quiz # 3
Posted July 21, 2008 |
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Marked to Myth: The Ackermann Prophecy and the Credit Crisis.
Posted July 18, 2008 |
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Marked to Myth: Double Agent at the Delhi-Bombay Bank
Posted July 3, 2008 |
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Pied Piper of Morgan Stanley
Posted June 20, 2008 |
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Is Corporate America run by Morons?
Posted June 16, 2008 |
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Trader’s Quiz on Volatility: Quiz #2
Posted June 5, 2008 |
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Asia's Brightest - Talking to Xavier Ducros in Hong Kong
Posted May 26, 2008 |
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Parabolas in Financial Markets
Posted May 22, 2008 |