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by Wildbill
May 22nd, 2007, 10:10 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Your favorite u tube songs?
Replies: 45
Views: 77401

Your favorite u tube songs?

what do you mean ? favorite video music?
by Wildbill
May 3rd, 2007, 9:21 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Black Swan Event Last Night
Replies: 3
Views: 72548

Black Swan Event Last Night

What's his fund doing by the way. As someone i know said... bleeding for a long time and waiting for the black swan also leads to death.
by Wildbill
February 27th, 2006, 4:38 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: Exotic options brokers
Replies: 16
Views: 194243

Exotic options brokers

meaning it should be easy for new entrants ? it s life of products after all?Why would it be so hard to arrive tehre and establish a new business in a huge house or a small one ?
by Wildbill
February 21st, 2006, 1:55 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: Exotic options brokers
Replies: 16
Views: 194243

Exotic options brokers

Mainly EQD but I shall be surely interested to know about FI.Seems that the present players are Sunrise, Link and TFS. any other names ?
by Wildbill
February 20th, 2006, 3:32 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Dispersion Trading
Replies: 5
Views: 130675

Dispersion Trading

Very interesting link !
by Wildbill
February 20th, 2006, 2:56 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Correlation / Dispersion trading
Replies: 2
Views: 120543

Correlation / Dispersion trading

who quote these products ? once i ve been asked by a client (a mid size bank in Europe) to show some structures around Correlation swaps.
by Wildbill
February 19th, 2006, 4:50 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: Exotic options brokers
Replies: 16
Views: 194243

Exotic options brokers

Hey where are we now on the exotic option brokerage two years later ?I heard about names like Sunrise, TFS, etc.
by Wildbill
February 1st, 2006, 9:26 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Range Accrual Target Redemption
Replies: 1
Views: 181933

Range Accrual Target Redemption

<t>Let's say we have a Target Range AccrualType : EMTNIssuer : BN GeneraleCurrency : EURValue Date : Today + 4 weeksRedemption Date : Value Date + 10 yearsIssue Price : 100%Redemption Price : 100 %Coupon Frequency : Semi Annual,30/360Coupons : Interest Period 1 & 2 : 5%- : Interest Period 3 to 1...
by Wildbill
February 1st, 2006, 8:56 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: CreditGrades implementation in excel
Replies: 8
Views: 193805

CreditGrades implementation in excel

Since I am not on this market. I would like to know if you Traders,Quants,Sales use the Credit Grade ?Or is it just a model for buy-side people (Asset Managers, Banks, Insurance) to have an "independent" valuation of the CDS they buy ?It ll be worth to know.
by Wildbill
January 18th, 2006, 11:19 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Synth CDO
Replies: 0
Views: 122127

Synth CDO

Hi,I am searching for ML's Paper : Single Tranch Synth CDO published in Aug 03. Anyone has it ?Tks
by Wildbill
January 18th, 2006, 10:32 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Jesus; who was he?
Replies: 90
Views: 129819

Jesus; who was he?

I think what really brought him down was the syndicate of Bakers and Fishermen....He arrived in the middle of the afternoon and distributed bread or lot of fishes.... imagine the baker who had to wake up at 2am to prepare bread, and see someone ruining his business
by Wildbill
January 18th, 2006, 10:25 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Class modul in Excel VBA
Replies: 7
Views: 123501

Class modul in Excel VBA

<t>NoyghouThanks for the advice... following the first one, i just created an Empty spreadsheet, containing the VB Code in it, named "formula.xls"Then i changed all my formulas in other spreadsheet to include "=formula.xls!Delta_c_Eur(S,X,T,etc...."But I was not aware of this personal file opening e...
by Wildbill
January 17th, 2006, 9:52 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: snowblade
Replies: 3
Views: 126723

snowblade

<t>Names are quite interesting to notice. in Equity derivatives, it's generally Socgen who is the trendsetter.I wanted to issue some products too (innovative my a$$ ) and call them like "TomCat" "A-10 Tank Killer" just for the fun of it.Think of the Himalaya in EQD... someone issued the double Himal...
by Wildbill
January 17th, 2006, 9:16 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Class modul in Excel VBA
Replies: 7
Views: 123501

Class modul in Excel VBA

Noygou,Brilliant, this works! I only need to have this *.xls file open all the time.Ntruwant,I ll try your method.
by Wildbill
January 15th, 2006, 8:23 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Class modul in Excel VBA
Replies: 7
Views: 123501

Class modul in Excel VBA

<t>I have the following function to calculate the price of a Call option. It s written in a Modul. The main problem is everytime I am creating a new spreadsheet, i have to copy all the code in it.Is there a way to have this function to be called by any spreadsheet ? Thus, having a central VB code pa...