I have the total dollar return and not the rate of return . so i have just divided this total dollar return by the beginning period return to calculate the rate of return

use the unique function. x=unique(Y). However, I think you should use www.matlabcentral.com to post such questions

<t>Hi,I know this could be a very simple question but I am superstitious since anything wrong with the measure could make me use many months of work. I have a database where the total dollar monthly return is reported. If I want to compute the monthly rate of return , I should just divide by the pri...

<t>Hi all,I know that in general the categories in decreasing seniority are: Bank Loans, Senior Secured, Senior Unsecured, Senior Subordinated, Subordinated, and Junior Subordinated. In my database I have in addition to these categories junior debt and None (which indicates no seniority level). I am...

Hi,Is there any good book about technical analysis that you would recommend?thx

assuming i have continuous interest rates for example 10% and 3%. Can I simply add them (13%) or subtract them (7%) . or I need to do some kind of transformation. Sorry the question could look naive but I look at the internet without success.

I am teaching intrduction to investments and I am looking for a good book that would cover market efficiency and the anomalies in an easy way. The topic in the book I am using (investments Francis and ibbotson) is heavy for the students.Thx

Does it make sense to find out that yields on some corporate bonds maturing after one or two years is lower than the yield on treasury bills?

<t>HI Aaron,I am calculating the term structute by minimizing the difference between the actual prices (clean +accrued) and the theoretical prices (discounting the cash flow to time zero). I don't think that I am doing a mistake in my calculation because the program was adapted from a famous paper w...

I am calculating the term structure of interest rate from bond prices. The results didn't make much sense till I eleminated all bonds with maturities less than 4 years. Does anyone have any explanation for that?

<t>I have read a definition about credit spread that credit spread should be considered as the difference between yield to maturity on a zero coupon (and not coupon paying) corporate bond (corporate spot rate) and the yield to maturity on a zero coupon government bond (government spot rate) of the s...

Hello,I was reading about hedging using interest rate futures and I am confused about one point. can the seller close out its interest rate futures and deliver the bonds at any anytime or only on the maturity date of the future contract?thx

is the annual continuous interest rate simply the semi annual continuous rate x 2?Thx

<t> Hi,I know that every stock traded on the NYSE is assigned to a specialist but I am wondering how this security is assigned to the specialist. what if many members are interested to be a specialist to a certain stock? who would be make the decision to assign the specialist in this case and based ...

<t>Hello,I am facing a dilemma. I was reading an example about capital budgeting using different approaches (APV,FTE,and WACC) in Ross , westerfield and Jaffe's book (Corporate finance).Surprisingly each method yielded a totally different answer ? is this possible. Aren't they supposed to give the s...