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ING Direct Orange Key
ING Direct Canada will give you a $25 bonus (or $50 until the end of December 2012) when you open any account with an initial deposit of $100.
Financial Modeling by Simon Benninga
I’d heard good things about this book from my friends – they’d remarked that this booked helped them to translate financial modelling theory into practice.
Financial Ratios Explained
This guide introduces the most significant financial ratios that investors use to gauge the health of a company.
Find Financial Fraud with Benford’s Law
Discover how a peculiar concept called Benford’s Law helps detect accounting and business fraud, and get an Excel spreadsheet to help with your financial sleuthing.
Pick Winning Stocks with the Piotroski F-Score
Investing in the stock market is risky, but you can tilt the odds in your favour with a strategy based on the F-Score.
The Omega Risk Measure
Traditional investment performance benchmarks quantify how much investors could potentially lose, given the variance (or downside-variance) of the portfolio. These include the Sharpe Ratio and the Sortino Ratio, which generally favor…
The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas
Espen Gaarder Haug is an option pricing god. He’s passionate about derivatives, and in this book he’s documented almost every single option developed in the last 30 years.
Documentary: Impact of Black-Scholes Formula
A few months ago I wrote an article on the Black-Scholes formula and its effect on the direction of the financial markets over the last thirty years. I’ve just stumbled…
Downside Deviation as a Risk Measure
This article provides an Excel spreadsheet to calculate downside deviation (including VBA and a matrix formula). It also discusses why downside deviation is a better risk measure than the standard…
The Volatility Surface – A Practitioner’s Guide by Jim Gatheral
Much of my life as a so-called financial analyst has focused on understanding the abstract concept of the volatility surface.