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by Buckaroo
June 1st, 2002, 6:24 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Info on country risk and quant models...thank you!
Replies: 6
Views: 189969

Info on country risk and quant models...thank you!

What is the difference between Country Risk and Soveign Risk
by Buckaroo
June 1st, 2002, 4:42 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Anyone trading electricity?
Replies: 4
Views: 190063

Anyone trading electricity?

<t>There is certainly some benefit to these banks to focus on a credit risk component to the energy trading. What I see is that with some advanced profiling there are significant margins in the service to the industry. While we are all trading ISDA's there is alway going to be a pretty large risk of...
by Buckaroo
May 29th, 2002, 11:54 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Energy....schmenergy
Replies: 5
Views: 190003

Energy....schmenergy

<t>On of the other major problems in the energy industry is that they all trade against eachother and their is little or no outsiders like the banking industry. See, the banking industry has counter-parties that it deals with which are from diversified backgrounds. They have counter-parties and cust...
by Buckaroo
May 29th, 2002, 11:10 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Methodology to compute Beta and why ?
Replies: 6
Views: 190130

Methodology to compute Beta and why ?

<t>Aaron & colleaguesWould you suggest that a markovitz model would have more predictive powers than that CAPM evaluation technique given that it has an error term which would explain some of the problems which you describe. Would it not be possible to then identify an arbitrage position based u...
by Buckaroo
May 29th, 2002, 11:00 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Green Eggs and Kelly
Replies: 8
Views: 191615

Green Eggs and Kelly

<t>Sorry guys need to learn that quote system. But I strongly agree Aaron. I'm involved in electricity trading and as we all know that the mean reversion, jump difusion analysis will educate us on is that the 1 in 20 year or 1 in 100 year event is the event which sends these companies to the dogs. Y...
by Buckaroo
May 29th, 2002, 10:56 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Green Eggs and Kelly
Replies: 8
Views: 191615

Green Eggs and Kelly

<t>[qi agree with your overall argument but this dismissal of profitable trading is harsh. after all, scores of arbitrage desks do this all the time. Or do you mean a customer traing from home can't do i?</i> >>No, I mean that even spec trading operations have to consider risk. If you give someone a...
by Buckaroo
May 29th, 2002, 10:42 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Private Bank Structures
Replies: 2
Views: 189503

Private Bank Structures

<r>Thanks Mark fd, I'm sorry guys, I did not realise that you did not know where I was if you could email <EMAIL email="Stevebuchanan74@hotmail.com">Stevebuchanan74@hotmail.com</EMAIL> it would be appreciated. I think that your recommendation on UBS is valuable. I'll check it out and let you all kno...
by Buckaroo
May 26th, 2002, 2:22 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Private Bank Structures
Replies: 2
Views: 189503

Private Bank Structures

<t>I require any information regarding a part of my research project, I need any information on surveys conducted on Private Banking organisations and how they are structured. I am trying to formulate if there is an optium structure for Private Banks in what they offer their clients in order to gene...