| LINK | COMMENTS |
| about these TUTORIALS | Just some explanatory notes ... |
| the spreadsheets | Where you can find them ... |
| Gain-Loss Spread | Another risk measure |
| Candlestick Combos | Find 'em! |
| a coin flippin strategy | Buy on Heads, Sell on Tails |
| Following the Trend | a Buy & Sell ritual |
| Which Price to use? | Open? Close? (1/3)Open + (2/3)Close? |
| Another candlestick | a la Heikin-Ashi |
| Poker Odds | Texas Hold'em, eh? |
| Standard Error(s) | Trying to understand the K-Ratio  |
| CORDIC stuff | How do computers calculate? |
| some Calculators | How long to double? Triple? |
| the High/Low Oscillator | ... fiddled. |
| a Quiz | to see if'n you been listening. |
| Dividends | ... historical. |
| Musings | (Brought on by old age?) |
| Exchange Rate | ... historical. |
| 200-day MA | Simplest Moving Average |
| Turtle Trading | What is it? |
| DOW futures | What are they? |
| Smile! | Do volatilities smile?  |
| Volatilities | ... for 30 stocks (or more). |
| Selling Calls | Covered ... and out-of-the-money |
| Go to sleep | ... and wake up to a profit. |
| Financial meltdown | ... and what to buy? |
| Portfolio Evolution | Random and Actual: compared |
| Missing the best days | ... or the worst |
| Buy & Sell | Do it yourself calculations  |
| Option things | Necessary CAGR to make money? |
| Safe Withdrawal Rates | Quick & Dirty |
| Stock Attractor | regression line as a magnet |
| More on Correlations | Correlation Babel ... |
| Market Musings | a look at the past (and future?) |
| Candlesticks and Crashes | Can you find a pattern? |
| Mkt Crashes | ... a la Sornette |
| gEMA Moving Average | Another moving average ??? |
| Monte Carlo | ... while you're investing |
| Gains & Losses | The bestest and worstest. |
| the DOW vs the World | Does the DOW influence world markets? |
| a Duffing oscillator | Market waves ... and chaos. |
| Other Moving Averages | There are jillions of 'em !! |
| Bonds? Stocks? | Take your pick. |
| Predicting next month | Is there a "best" predictor? |
| Path Volatility | Different route, different volatility |
| the Chaikin Oscillator | ... and Volume Flows |
| India Stocks | ... an attempt to download from BSE or NSE. |
| ETFs | ... and their Net Asset Value |
| Wavelets | Build a time series with wavelets |
| penny Stocks | They can be fun!! |
| DSO | Daily Stock Oscillation |
| Predicting Highs & Lows | The search for "cousins" |
| DSA#2 | yet another Daily Stock Activity |
| Technical Analysis | ... a few TA things, charted. |
| Historically Compare | ... then predict the future.  |
| ACB | an Adjusted Cost Base calculator |
| Download | Open, High, Low & Closing prices |
| ADX | Average Directional Movement thing |
| CAGR & Drawdown | Is there a relationship? |
| CAGR & Volatility | Is there a relationship? |
| Correlations, correlations ... | Which one to use? |
| DSA | Daily Stock Activity (?) |
| Buy & Sell | a Strategy that (sometimes) works |
| Volatility Pumping | ... to Beat the Market, eh? |
| Portfolio Contests | This is great fun!  |
| Rent? | ... or keep the house? |
| Risk, eh? | What is this thing called "Risk"?? |
| Drawdown | It was worser in the past |
| Historical Comparison | Does the present look like the past? |
| Rebalancing | Yes or No? |
| Return on Investments | IRR or XIRR or what? |
| a Modified Bollinger | Bollinger Bands revisited |
| Money Management | How much to Buy ... or Sell? |
| Donchian Channels | Identifying UP- and DOWN-trends |
| the Ulcer Index | An ulcer-generating risk measure |
| Market Crashes | Can they be predicted? |
| Fed Rates | ... and the probability of a change |
| Expense Tracker | ... might be a handy spreadsheet (?) |
| Multiple Downloads | Download a bunch of stock prices |
| the Stock and the Pillow | What allocation Pillow? |
| gDOW | another DOW Index |
| Black Swans | Huh? |
| DMA | Displaced Moving Average |
| Sectors | a la Fidelity |
| Kalman filter | linear estimation |
| Asset volatility | Good or Bad? |
| Stock Talk | Listen to stock info. |
| Contour plots | courtesy of FundTalker |
| Return Data | ... to play with. |
| Backtesting | A neato spreadsheet! |
| a bug? | ... in XIRR |
| Buy or Rent? | Take your pick! |
| downsideBeta | downside Who? |
| Regression stuff | Can you trust historical data? |
| R-squared | ... and causal relationships. |
| Portfolio Tracker | A simple tracker. |
| Sister Stocks | Try to find 'em ! |
| Correlations? | between Prices or Returns? |
| ATP | All Time Periods |
| Stock Charts | Stock Charts: a collection |
| Drawdown | ... as a measure of risk. |
| Short Interest | Pretty selling-short pictures |
| Stochastic Dominance | What is it? |
| Serial Correlation | ... and Monte Carlo |
| Capital Gains & Dividends | Tax considerations |
| Multiple download | Make your own calculations! |
| Ito & Options | What's a Call option worth ... in the future |
| Trade Log | Keep track of your trades |
| g-Risk | Another kind of "risk" |
| maxima | ... for tougher Math !! |
| eigenMath | Let it do your Math !! |
| Your Portfolio | ... versus an Index. |
| Five year analysis | Best days? Best months? |
| Correlations | ... between 30 stocks. |
| What Returns? | There are SO many of 'em ! |
| Net Present Value | What is it? |
| Multiple Returns | ... and fictitious returns! |
| Toss 10,000 coins | just to see what happens  |
| Sortino Ratio | versus Sharpe ratio |
| Trends | and when they Ends |
| Loans | and Newton's Method |
| Volatility | and correlation with the Market |
| Buy in the Fall | and Sell in the Spring |
| SAD | worst months - by country |
| Canadian Returns | and "safe" withdrawals. |
| Exchange Rates | a spreadsheet. |
| Noise in stock returns | How to measure it? |
| Stocks go Up & Down | ... but how often? |
| DCA | ... or all-at-once? |
| Predicting stock prices | ... using the Laplace distribution. |
| 30 stocks | Download and construct a portfolio |
| Buy & Sell signals | ... using candlesticks. |
| Monte Carlo | Which returns to use? |
| TrafficLights | When to Buy, Sell or Hold |
| Predicting Prices | ... and other stuff |
| Average Returns | Do you trust 'em? |
| Average True Range | ... and a fiddled version |
| Moving Averages | a spreadsheet to play with |
| Gann charts | ... or the Square of Nine |
| PCA | Perfectly Confusing Anal... Principal Component Analysis |
| Risk, eh? | What is it? |
| ODE | a differential equation (?!) |
| Making Money | (Just kidding!) |
| Market Down | Probability of price decreases, eh? |
| Momentum | An investment strategy (maybe) |
| MFI | Money Flow Index |
| Velocity of Trades | Moving to a price target (maybe) |
| Price Probabilities | and related stuff |
| Pairs Trading | The long and short of it  |
| A.I.M. | A Buy & Sell strategy |
| Linear Regression | ... for umpteen variables |
| Pivot Points | and resistance and support levels |
| Time Weighted Returns | What are they? |
| Covariances | ... a spreadsheet |
| an option problem | What's the annualized return? |
| Black-Litterman | a model for asset allocation |
| Yield stuff | Buy this ... or that? |
| MC stuff | Monte Carlo for a dozen stocks |
| very safe withdrawals | ... guaranteed! |
| YTD | ... and XIRR |
| DGIS | Dividend Growth Investment Strategy |
| IRR | ... and NPV |
| Stock Splits | Then what? |
| re-Ordering annual returns | and then what? |
| Perfect Correlation | How to get it, eh? |
| Spearman Rank Correlation | again! |
| Copulas | ... more of 'em |
| Correlations | and Copulas! |
| 2 stocks | and Monte Carlo |
| Raff regression | to identify trends |
| Active or Passive | Which Fund is better? |
| Sam retires | ... and plays with Monte Carlo |
| PV | a Present Value problem |
| Coin tossing | ... and Reversion to the Mean |
| P&F charts | Huh? Whazzat? |
| CEFs | Closed End Funds |
| rMA | Another moving average |
| Stock Data | Download & Calculate |
| Returns formula | Test your formula(s) ! |
| PE Ratios | and Bond Rates |
| Risk | ... and volatility |
| Candlesticks | Fun stuff!! |
| Hikkake | and candlestick |
| Risk | ≠ Standard Deviation !! |
| Deletions | Deleting the best and worst days |
| Hurst exponent | What is it? |
| Implied Volatility | versus Historical |
| RS indicator | ... and other ratios |
| What's hot? | and what's Not? |
| EMA | ... the magic formula (?) |
| Time Diversification | What is it? |
| reBalancing | ... good or bad? |
| Aroon Indicator | When is the stock gonna go up (or down)? |
| Templeton | 22 investment maxims |
| Doom & Gloom | Is it justified? |
| options | in the money |
| Volatility | and the square-root-of-time |
| gRANK | ... revisited |
| Colouring | ... financial things |
| hedging | to reduce volatility, eh? |
| Johnson curves | ... and probability distributions |
| regret | What is it !&$%#@? |
| the Stutzer Index | to rank a portfolio |
| YTD | ... and XIRR |
| Buy an annuity | A good idea ... or not. |
| Deja vu | ... all over again |
| Coherent Risk | What is it! |
| Maximum Withdrawals | ... more on this stuff |
| world's worst investor | ... that's ME! |
| E10-P stuff | ... more on this stuff |
| E10/P | E10/P and Safe Withdrawal Rate(s) |
| TV stuff | about them new fangled TVs |
| Seasonality | Do prices depend upon the season? |
| Nobel Prize | ... for 2003 |
| myPortfolio | Well ... your portfolio |
| a Contest | a Portfolio Contest spreadsheet |
| Weekly Stuff | stock stuff, weekly |
| Options | ... and Volatility |
| Stock Stuff | stock ... stuff |
| PreMarket | ... and predicting the opening price |
| Fat Tails | ... and how to get 'em |
| Parabolas | fitting them to stock prices |
| Bonds | ... and Interest Rates |
| Returns and Volatility | ... the effect of volatility on CAGR |
| gRANK | ... revisited |
| Asset Correlation | ... and diversification |
| a Game | Play the Efficient Frontier game |
| reSampling Efficiency | reSampling the Efficient Frontier |
| Omega | ... a characteristic of distributions: Gain / Loss |
| Pensions | ... and Life Annuities |
| Liquidity | Amivest Liquidity Ratio |
| Put Options | What's the Break Even ? |
| XIRR | XIRR and ROR stuff |
| Approximation | approximation to Normal/Lognormal distributions |
| FOREX | Trading in Foreign Exchanges |
| Monte Carlo | Should we believe MC predictions? |
| forecasting | An attempt at forecasting |
| GMS | Geomagnetic Storms (and the markets) |
| sorta VA | Variations on Value Averaging and DCA |
| SWR | More on Safe Withdrawal Rates (!) |
| gDX | Variations on a theme |
| Constant Returns | When are they better? |
| Put/Call Ratios | Do they predict market movement? |
| Bayes' Theorem | ... and (maybe) the Market |
| reordering | What happens when you reorder returns? |
| Covariance | ... and Correlation and R-squared stuff |
| SWR | "Safe" withdrawal rates (again) |
| FOREX | Download Foreign Exchange Rates from Yahoo |
| Stock stuff | Get a bunch of data on a stock |
| beta | Don't trust it (?) |
| CAGR | Annualized Returns. |
| VDX | VDX ... and other stuff |
| Stocks and Bonds | What's the meaning of a "best" mix? |
| EPS | Forecasting EPS ... maybe |
| Another Distribution | ... with fatter tails |
| Zweig's Rule | Zweig's 4% (and other) Rules |
| Return Distributions | Generating Return Distributions |
| WWW | A (wee) history of the World Wide Web |
| Future Prices | Predicting future prices :^) |
| Wilshire 5K / GDP | Yet another ratio to see if the market is overpriced. |
| Call Options | Which to buy ? |
| Bernoulli | Lift, on an airplane wing |
| download | download a webpage to Excel |
| Bachelier | the Father of Financial Stuff |
| to Mars | launch an Explorer to Mars :^) |
| forecasting | Predicting moving averages etc. |
| XIRR, not Dietz | Don't do the Dietz! |
| DCA vs LumpSum | DCA over 12 months, eh? |
| Williams %R | Buy & Sell a la Williams |
| Beta | Beta and the "Best line" fit to data |
| Spearman Correlation | Looking for common trends |
| Bollinger | About Bollinger Bands |
| Special Sum | Volatility of the sum of n stock prices |
| gRANK | Assorted PEG-type Ratios |
| Huh? | How many trades to win? |
| Gold! | Gold: is it cheeep? |
| RTM | Reversion to the Mean (?) |
| Oktoberfest | October ... again! |
| Another strategy | A withdrawal strategy. |
| Buying for less | Effect on your annual return. |
| Fractals | Fascinating stuff! |
| XIRR | Comments on calculating portfolio returns. |
| a Coverup? | ... interesting questions ... |
| Cointegration | Identifying trends & stuff |
| Monte Carlo | ... random musings |
| a Small World | ... ain't it? |
| Relativity | Einstein says ... |
| the DOW goes up (down) | How often does the DOW go up N days-in-a-row? |
| Inflation | incorporating inflation |
| Monte Carlo | a simple-minded Monte Carlo spreadsheet |
| Cash in an Annuity | Converting (some) annuity to a lump sum payment? |
| CPI | Inflation and REAL returns |
| Bond Convexity | Whatzzat? |
| Standard Deviation | SD of Returns vs SD of Prices |
| Reordering Returns | ... then what? |
| SWRs | Safe Withdrawal Rates (again!) |
| Portfolio | Track your portfolio investments |
| Sharpe Ratio | Maximize allocations a la Sharpe Ratio ... maybe! |
| Retiring? | List your expenses |
| Safe Withdrawals | This topic ... again! |
| Median Returns | Calculate the median return (maybe) |
| Sam and Sally | Die early ... and live it up! |
| VA | More Value Averaging (!) |
| Ito Calculus | Random stuff: stochastic processes, Brownian motion, Black-Scholes ... |
| Simple Download | Download data |
| Derivatives | What are they? |
| Withdrawals | Max Rate of Withdrawal ... and Life Expectancy |
| Miscellany | Some financial calculation rituals ... |
| Asset Allocation | ... and John Nash |
| Sector Rotation | Is there a good strategy? |
| RESPs | Education Saving Plans |
| Value at Risk | Whatzzat? |
| Reincarnation | A strategy to make a killing ... |
| Do the Dietz | Modified Dietz Return calculations. |
| Asset Allocation | The "best" mix ... maybe. |
| Stock/Bond ratio | The "best" mix ... maybe. |
| PEG Ratios | What do they mean? |
| Elliott Waves | Ride the Waves ! |
| Crashes | Market Waves ... and crashes ! |
| Waves | Finding periodicity in stock prices ... or NOT |
| Kurtosis | Skew and Kurtosis - whattzat? |
| Rebalance-when? | Is there a best time? |
| Santa Claus | Does St. Nick have a rally? |
| Kelly Ratio | How much to invest in your next trade? |
| Moving Averages | Find the best (maybe :^) |
| ODEs | Differential Equations |
| Distribution | Stock Returns ... Normal? Lognormal? What? |
| Stock Prices | Distribution of Stock Prices (maybe) |
| Ratio Call Writing | Write Calls, Buy the Stock |
| a Magic Sum | It's magic, eh? |
| Approximations | Approximations to portfolio evolution. |
| Coin tossing | Toss a coin ... and get your return! |
| Return Predictor | Using historical returns as predictors |
| Rebalancing Bonus | The bonus in rebalancing (?) |
| Portfolio Blues | DOWN she goes, UP she goes ... |
| Bond Calculators | Play with a calculator or three |
| Allocations | Play with (historical) allocations |
| Download data | a neat way to get Yahoo data |
| Option stuff | ... just a comment or two ... |
| Monte, again | Monte Carlo ... again!? |
| Bond Ladders | What kind of financial equipment is it? |
| DCA and VA | Dollar Cost and Value averaging |
| CAPM | a Capital Asset Pricing Model |
| Dividend Discount | What price, stock? |
| Asset Concentration | Should you concentrate on one Asset Class? |
| Utility Theory | Your personal optimization? |
| Option Strategies | What's the probability of losing? |
| Life Expectancy | ... and Life Annuities |
| Latin Hypercube | another method to sample returns |
| Stock Evolution | the Binomial Distribution ... and stock growth |
| Black-Scholes | the Black-Scholes option pricing formula |
| Risks & Rewards | Another Risk / Reward Ratio |
| Risk/Reward Ratio(s) | How many are there? |
| Try an annuity | Should you buy an annuity? |
| Save for Retirement | Part II ... it ain't easy !! |
| Maximum Withdrawals | the Maximum Rate of Withdrawal is ... what? |
| Sensible Withdrawals | Safer withdrawals ... and more Monte Carlo. |
| Asset Correlation | Is correlation good or bad? |
| P/E & Bond Rates? | Is the market over-priced? |
| Growth vs Value | Optimal (golden) Ratios |
| Growth vs Value | Slice and Dice ... |
| Bonds | Some stuff on Bonds |
| another Frontier | ... to minimize Risk |
| Efficient Frontier | ... to minimize Volatility |
| Passive or Active MFs | Take your pick! |
| Another distribution | Take your pick! |
| Equal-weighted Indices | Better or worser? |
| Monte Carlo simulation | a spreadsheet by the Count of Monte Carlo |
| Normal/Lognormal | Which is the better fit to market returns? |
| Random? | Are the markets random? |
| Volume weighting | include VOLUME in Moving Averages: ADX=>VDX |
| R-squared.htm | Covariance, Correlations and Beta. |
| Mutual Fund figures | How does YOUR gain compare to the Mutual Fund - or The DARK SIDE of DCA |
| Rotation | Rotating Portfolio components. |
| Life Expectancy | Drop dead ... when? |
| a Strategy | a Strategy to avoid big losses ... maybe. |
| Invest Early | Start investing early ... for your retirement. |
| Bond Yields | an Inverted Yield curve predicts a recession? |
| Re-Balancing | Sell the good stuff to buy the bad. |
| the Rule of 72 | How long to double, triple? |
| Reversion/Regression | Does Reversion to the Mean apply to the market? |
| P/E ratio | What's P/E ... and how to get one for an Index? |
| Stocks & Bonds | Is there a "best" mix? |
| Annualized Return | How to calculate it. |
| Rate of Return | How to calculate it accurately ... and Dietzly. |
| Mean, Annualized & SD | What's the relation? |
| Average Gains | Think "Annualized", not "Average". |
| a Random Walk | What is it? |
| Save for Retirement? | What fraction of your salary should you save? |
| Safe(?) Withdrawals | You're retired: What's a Safe Withdrawal rate? |
| about Risk? | Risk, Volatility and Standard Deviation. |
| What's RISK? | Risk Measures ... or "A Mathematician's Folly" |
| a Break Even Strategy | Trying to Break Even in the market :^) |
| Market Indexes | How to calculate 'em. |
| Best and Worst Months | The effect of missing the "best" or "worst" months?
OR Market Timing: good or evil? |
| Portfolio Growth/Decay | How does your Portfolio grow:
Constant & Random gains. |
| Value Averaging | How does it compare to DCA: Dollar Cost Averaging? |
| Excel charting | A spreadsheet: how I chart. |
| HTML Praxis | Hyper Text Markup Language: The language of the Net. |
| HTML overview | The language of the Net: a summary |
| Technical Analysis | Investing ... by the charts. |
| Lessons in C | What I larned about this $!@*&% computer language. |
| Years to Zero | How long will your portfolio last? (the MATH) |
| Mortgages | How much do you pay? (the MATH) |
| Life Annuities | How much do you get? (Approximately!) |
| Volume-weighted Averaging | The average price paid for a stock. |
| a Wave Theory | Do stock prices have periodicity? |
| Adjusted Cost Base | How to calculate this guy. |
| LIF Maxima | How to calculate this guy. |
| Leveraging | Borrow to invest? How much does it cost? (the MATH) |
| Bond Duration | What is it?! (the MATH) |
| Invest inside or outside an RRSP | (the MATH) |
| Biotech Stock Valuation | How much is a biotech stock worth? |
| Best Fit | Fitting "the best" straight line to some data. |
| DCA Part 1 | Dollar Cost Averaging. |
| DCA Part 2 | Dollar Cost Averaging ... for masochists. |
| Geosynchronous satellites | Where are they? |
| the DOW index | How now? |
| Computers | a (wee) History of Computers |
| the Mathies | hardly a tutorial ... but wee bios of famous mathematicians. |
| Calculus | a course. |
| about Call Options | What I larned 'bout trading in Options. |
| Vedic math | A fascinating way to do math |
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