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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...ccount. "The Economist" has recently proposed yet another dimension of risk: "The Chicago Board Options Exchange's VIX index, a measure of traders... ... (132%). The paper notes wryly: "Just as with equities in the late 1990s, property bulls are now coming up with bogus arguments for why rampant ho... ...the same software does not necessarily mean that everyone would make the same stock picks. Moreover, the CAPM and similar models are now being chal... ...tes is very large. Practical Importance Option contracts began to be traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) in April 1973, one month ... ...rated this effect convincingly in the Japanese banking system in his November 2001 draft paper titled "What Happens in Banking Crises - Credit Crun... ... But why do shareholders cooperate with such corporate brigandage? In an important Chicago Law Review article whose preprint was posted to the Web ... ...the same software does not necessarily mean that everyone would make the same stock picks. Moreover, the CAPM and similar models are now being chal...

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