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John's Blog: "Monotony Collapses Time. Novelty Unfolds It"

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Sunday, March 25, 2012. Monotony Collapses Time. Novelty Unfolds It". Psychologists have done experiments which show that packing more events into your life stretches. Your experience of time (see. In one experiment a psychologist locked himself up for two months in complete isolation. When he was pulled out he had only one month of entries in his journal. In effect he had lost a month. Time as he experienced it halved. Collecting as many memories as possible is not too bad a goal.

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John's Blog: Python and QuantLib - Bonds

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Thursday, May 01, 2014. Python and QuantLib - Bonds. Previous post in this series. A hundred years ago equities were the modern derivatives of mass destruction du jour, only traded by financial whizz kids. Today the global debt market still dwarfs the equity market; but equity has a larger mind share amongst the public, perhaps because fixed income is harder to understand. In finance, as with the wider world, simplicity and complexity are often two sides of the same coin. 00003, Period(1,Months) ,. This ...

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John's Blog: Finite Games

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Thursday, February 09, 2012. At the end of the Super Bowl last weekend there was an odd moment a minute from time. A New York Giants player found himself rushing towards the goal line and couldn't stop himself from scoring a touchdown. You may think that would be the dream of every American - to score a touchdown and help win the biggest prize in American sport. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.

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John's Blog: Pulling the Moon to the Bottom of the Ocean

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Saturday, July 21, 2012. Pulling the Moon to the Bottom of the Ocean. A really nice phrase. Hi go to www.al-ghla.net :). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Pulling the Moon to the Bottom of the Ocean.

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John's Blog: Forecasting Dividends - Part 2

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Wednesday, October 01, 2014. Forecasting Dividends - Part 2. Imagine you woke up tomorrow morning, the calendar was open at tomorrow's date - but 10 years ago. What could you do? Earn a lot of money! And save the world perhaps). How could you earn that money? Invest in the stock market? Apple hasn't introduced the iPhone yet and Nokia hasn't jumped off a cliff. Time travellers have an unfair advantage; but like many other travellers; they have new information which people will pay a handsome price for.

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John's Blog: QuantLib and Python - iPython Notebook Screencast

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014. QuantLib and Python - iPython Notebook Screencast. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. QuantLib and Python - iPython Notebook Screencast. QuantLib 1.4 Packages on Debian Stable. Python and QuantLib - American Equity Options. Python and QuantLib - Equity Option Example Source. Quantlib and Python - Putting Fingers to Keyboard. Quantlib and Python - Getting Started. Quantlib and Python - An Introduction.

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John's Blog: Quantlib and Python - Putting Fingers to Keyboard

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Saturday, April 05, 2014. Quantlib and Python - Putting Fingers to Keyboard. Read the previous part in this series here. You want to be an ueber powerful super hero capable of all sorts of impossible feats; then again don't you want to lead a simple life away from all the complexities of having rubbery hands and being able to become invisible? No wonder super heroes resort to having those Clarke Kent and Bruce Wayne alter egos. In any case let's drop into Python's interactive interpreter. Finance is obse...

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John's Blog: Quantlib and Python - Getting Started

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Friday, April 04, 2014. Quantlib and Python - Getting Started. See part 1 of this series here. When it comes to open source software Linux is the only way to go. Why would you use anything other than Photoshop on a Mac or a cutting edge game on Windows? Using Linux is just easier for Python development and all the quant lib packages come ready made for your machine (no messy compiling required! In order to install Quantlib for Python on Debian (sure to work on Ubuntu and Mint also) Linux system run:.

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John's Blog: Pop Up Restaurants

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Friday, December 23, 2011. A restaurant goes out of business and the landlord is finding it difficult to lease the space - so they rent out to people on a short term basis at lower than normal rents. Hey presto, you have a pop up restaurant! Thanks for popping by; apologies for my late reply. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.

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John's Blog: Forecasting Dividends - Part 3

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Friday, December 05, 2014. Forecasting Dividends - Part 3. Of this series we covered the theory behind predicting dividends; this post is where the rubber hits the road. The maths for our previous wordy description is. F = S * e [(r-c) * t]. F : future or forward price of the stock. S : spot price. R : interest rate. T : time to the forward's maturity. We haven't mentioned the convenience yield yet. For equities the convenience yield is. Q : dividend yield. E : error term, or other miscellaneous factors.