One can only hope exotiq I'm very much a beginner here. Any ideas/links on how one would go about programming something this dandy in Excel ?

<t>Anyone have any advice on what analytical platform/software to use for your own portfolio? I'm talking about totting up and tracking all the investments you have in bonds, stocks, real estate, funds etc. I'm keen to find a centralised, cost-efficient platform to analyse the info and look at asset...

Thank you all for your comments. Unfortunately, I have recently relocated and will not have access to cable/DSL for another couple of weeks, so P2P or any file sharing is not possible. Math9: My e-mail is: vincent.mancini@gmail.combest,VM

Crouhy, Galai and Mark, Risk Management, McGraw Hill 2001Jorion, Philippe, Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, 2nd Edition---------------Much appreciated. VM

<t>naah, you don't sound too negative. you sound like an idiot who's trying to stir up a contrQuoteOriginally posted by: Arnheimhopefully i dont sound too negative, but i think the big days of the quants are over.as for my place for example (top five investment bank, one of the biggest), there are h...

<t>You're deciding on London/NY, learning French/German/Martian and wanna be reading trading books. Buddy, you need a girlfriend. Maybe you should be dwelling on that in the off-topic. QuoteOriginally posted by: exotiqOK, I got several recommendations for the classics that I've somehow never gotten ...

3rd edition by Lipschutz and Lipson. ISBN 0-07-136200-2

I am using this for self-study, but the detailed solutions to the "supplementary" problems are not given. Any idea where I can get them from ?

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: Javsternow now fellas,hate to tell you this but a few years ago i went to the after party of a career presentation and met the same HR women there.............started chatting, a few drinks later we were on the dance floor.....ill leave the rest to your imagination....i...

QuoteOriginally posted by: MarsdenIf the Xi-s are chosen randomly and not ordered, then don't they each just have the same distribution as the population?thats what I thought. thank you Marsden, MikeM.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: MikeMI like Marsden's answer. ...You could also apply the central limit theorem to some sample statistic, e.g. SUM[Xi - Mean(i)]/sqrt(SUM[var(i)])) approaches a normal distribution.yes, but that would be a statistic pdf , not applicable to an individual random variable ...

anybody ?

A simple question for most of you chaps: say we have X1, X2, ...........XN taken from a population whose pdf is (say) a Gamma dist'n. Can we say anything at all about the pdf of the individual random variables ......... the pdf of X1 ?

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: MattFQuoteOriginally posted by: VinceManciniIrongater's an idiot and so are you. seriously, you guys have to be fucking KIDDING me .......... The entire basis of pricing is assumption of assets prices following a lognormal random walk - is that something from psychology...