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Plotting Volatility Smile in R

The main flaw of the Black Scholes model is that it assumes that the volatility of options contracts is constant for di...

Will Cash Make A Comeback In 2020?

Cash could make a comeback in 2020 given that certain people need cash because of their location, situation, or job. Th...

Need Extra Cash? Here's Something You Can Do

Everyone has experienced sudden expenses that threatened their savings account. This may have happened to you once in y...

4 Useful Tips to Pass The Exam for Finance Students

Finance exam, just like any other test encountered by a student, often appears totally different from what the cour...

Credit Card Debt: 5 Ways to Pay It Off

Have you ever gone on a shopping spree with your credit card doing all the purchasing for you? It must have been eu...

Black Scholes Options Pricing Model in R

The Black Scholes model estimates the value of a European call or put option by using the following parameters: S = ...

Review of Options Contracts

Options are financial instruments that give the holders certain rights that they can exercise at the time of expiration...

Exploring Open Interest for Futures Contracts with R

In this article we will explore in greater depth the Open Interest variable of the futures contracts price data and see...

Contango and Backwardation

The concepts of Contango and Backwardation are related with the term structure of the futures contracts. During the lif...

Creating Term Structure of Futures Contracts Using R

The terms structure of the futures contracts for a specific asset is generated by the contracts prices at different exp...

Different Parties in the Futures Market

The future market is composed of different types of agents that go to the futures market for a specific purpose. These ...

Comparing Futures vs Spot Prices for WTI Crude Oil

In this post, we will be comparing the Futures vs Spot Prices for WTI Crude Oil, i.e., the WTI Futures series with the ...

R Visualization of Statistical Properties of Future Prices

Future contracts have some particular properties that make them a special assets class. In this article, we will learn ...

Exploring Crude Oil (CL) Future Data from Quandl in R

It would be useful to download a dataset of historical future contract prices and explore it using R programming langua...

How to Create Futures Continuous Series

Futures Contracts A future contract is a standardized contract with precisely specified contract terms. This contrac...

Overview of Derivatives with R Tutorial

This tutorial on derivatives with R provides a conceptual and practical guide to analyzing derivatives instruments such...

When Is The Right Time For A Car Loan?

Can you believe that somewhere into the twentieth-century, people would consider a horse-driven stagecoach as their...

Neural Networks Overview

Neural networks is an advanced technique which is within the field of Deep Learning. As we know, machine learning invol...

K-Means Algorithm Python Example

In this post, we will provide an example of the implementation of the K-Means algorithm in python.  This K-Means a...

Unsupervised Learning Models

Unsupervised learning models are composed of features that are not associated with a response. This means that this typ...

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