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S&W Assets and Funds Management: November 2007
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S&W Assets and Funds Management. S&W (Second Life and World Stock Exchange) Assets and Funds Management was created by a group of RL investors who discovered a need for potential investors in Second Life to receive adequate and unbiased information in order to prospect on SL companies. Thursday, November 29, 2007. I promise to improve over the coming week (having said that, we will all be away over the weekend! From the CEO's this week:. Hope Capital Ltd (HCL) dropped back this week below the $L1 mark, b...
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Second Chaos: Mathematical Evangalism: The Monty Hall Problem
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Perspectives on Second Life. Strange's Second Life Blog. Subscribe to Second Chaos. Wednesday, April 9, 2008. Mathematical Evangalism: The Monty Hall Problem. Every once in awhile, I have to go on a streak of public education for the betterment of society. The Monty Hall problem presents such an opportunity and just cause for such evangelism, as this non-intuitive probability problem routinely trips up even sharp-minded folk. So, I present to you a problem:. Got an answer in mind yet? This is an experime...
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Second Chaos: Lessons in FM: Part I - Present Value
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Perspectives on Second Life. Strange's Second Life Blog. Subscribe to Second Chaos. Saturday, November 24, 2007. Lessons in FM: Part I - Present Value. I'm going to start a series of educational posts about the basic concepts of Financial Mathematics, my major. These are not intended to be overly complex and I will do my best to keep the calculus out of it. There will be a mix of mathematics and economics, and the symbols used will likely be actuarial. The equation we start with is pretty basic:. So long...
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Second Chaos: Retained Earnings
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Perspectives on Second Life. Strange's Second Life Blog. Subscribe to Second Chaos. Friday, October 3, 2008. One little description, so much power. The description of Retained Earnings on the SL CapEx template balance sheet formerly read. TAKE DIRECTLY FROM LINE 523 of INCOME STATEMENT". Let's think about how to calculate RE. The first question is, "What is earnings? The next question is, "How does a company retain earnings? It's actually easier to address how a company does not retain earnings, and that...
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Second Chaos: June 2008
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Perspectives on Second Life. Strange's Second Life Blog. Subscribe to Second Chaos. Tuesday, June 10, 2008. Noun: A dictatorship in which the leader. Has power only because the people. Choose to allow them to remain. This necessitates a wise use of power. And generally prevents abuses since the benevolent dictator. Loses power if they are unsuitable. (From the Wiktionary. There is currently some debate going on here at Your2ndPlace. And at the International Stock Exchange. When the VSTEX was started ther...
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Second Chaos: November 2010
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Perspectives on Second Life. Strange's Second Life Blog. Subscribe to Second Chaos. Wednesday, November 24, 2010. Interesting Note and Reminder. As most anyone has probably noticed, this blog is pretty much inactive. However, I've looked back over it, and I wrote a lot of good stuff on financial mathematics, finance, and accounting. I'm still available for questions/comments at guardian.market@gmail.com. (I've set it to forward to my RL email, so I'll get emails much quicker now.). Enter your search terms.
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Second Chaos: Options: Lesson 2
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Perspectives on Second Life. Strange's Second Life Blog. Subscribe to Second Chaos. Saturday, May 17, 2008. Guardian's Note: This is a continuation (though much overdue) of a previous post. Which I wrote awhile ago. Reading that post will likely be necessary for a good understanding of this one. Now that you have a good intuitive understanding of what a call and put option on a stock are, and how to use them, let's think about how to price them. Suppose we have a stock at price S. The option will pay (S.
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Second Chaos: My Lack of Posting
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Perspectives on Second Life. Strange's Second Life Blog. Subscribe to Second Chaos. Friday, May 2, 2008. My Lack of Posting. Has been due to studying for my next actuarial exam, Exam MFE. Scroll down a little to the Financial Economics segment). I'll be more active after the 15th. My apologies for the lack of mathematical reading. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your search terms. There was an error in this gadget. My Lack of Posting.
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Second Chaos: November 2008
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Perspectives on Second Life. Strange's Second Life Blog. Subscribe to Second Chaos. Saturday, November 22, 2008. Retained Earnings Part II. In my previous post, I explained that. RE(t) = RE(t-1) NI(t) - Div(t). Retained Earnings.RE(t) = NI(t) - Div(t). This way, an investor can look and see how the Income Statement carries through to the Balance Sheet. However, Bogart has confirmed (I believe) that the GAAP method is acceptable as well. At least, he hasn't stopped me from using it on SLR's finances, ...
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Second Chaos: Options: Lesson 1
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Perspectives on Second Life. Strange's Second Life Blog. Subscribe to Second Chaos. Friday, March 14, 2008. One of my favorite topics in finance is that of options. I've mentioned options in a few previous posts. And I would like to dedicate a few posts to the mechanics of options and option pricing. Coincidentally, this is also the same material that I'm studying for my next RL actuarial exam, exam MFE (Modeling: Financial Economics). Read those two sentences again. And again. One more time. This is bec...