stop double posting

ok. interesting. I would have thought that the rating agencys have some "target" probability in mind.and where would i find those historical data?

Excuse my naivety, but is there a table of default probabilities S&P assigns to its rating classes?I have been searching their website and could not find anything like that. Any ideas? thx.

<t>QuoteI usually recommend options: they're cheaper than stock and if you pick the right strategies, they limit the overall risk. ok. i sell you one msft call (3month, atm) for 13, and you sell me one msft stock for 26. here you get one option for half the price of the stock! whow!now thats quite a...

<t>People measure and manage credit risk and other measure and manage market risk.maybe after 18 hours in the office i am missing something, but there is clearly a fair amount of corellation between those two (russia, enron).how do you take care of that? how do you model that corellation?any comment...

<t>my 2 cents:re q1: why not? many models have been tried, the perfect one has not been found. mean reversion models seems to work reasonably well and make sense - conceptually.re q2: long term rates are driven purely by supply & demand. you have a huge amount of natural buy and hold investors o...

as long as those dogs are not trained to detect my daily portion of dope which keeps me going ..... now that would really piss me off

just by a symmetry argument and since (64/2)*3= 96, I would come to the same conclusion as Halliron that Quoteclearly, the number of subsets for which (a+b+c)<95 = the number of subsets for which (a+b+c) >192 - 95=97"and the remainder is left to the reader."

you're welcome

<t>thats the point: i am not aware of any solution to your problem, which i read as direct data transfer bloomberg -> mathematica.whats the legal problem with a third product like mathlink for excel? blbg allows you to transfer data to excel. fine! there is no legal issue involved in transferring th...

<r>you are adding points which did not seem to be a problem in your original question.don't know what kind & quantity of data you are looking at, but if you are really concerned with speed forget mathematica (and bloomberg).i also don't see why there are legal issues involved in getting bloomber...

<t>do you have MathLink? this connects Mathematica with Excel.assuming you know how to download data from bloomberg to excel, you can then connect from mtmca to excel.bad news is, that mathlink was originally written for (i believe) Mathematica 3.0. And has not really been updated since, which makes...

herd, whats your reasoning for not switching?

QuoteI'm a little surprised we have all got big negative Social Libertarian/Authoritarian, umm just wait until mp & mikebell do this. their score will level the average at 0.

Economic Left/Right: -1.88Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.41