Another important distinction between futures and forwards is that the futures exchange guarantees to each party the performance of the other party, through a mechanism known as the clearinghouse. This guarantee means that if one party makes money on the transaction, it does not have to worry about whether it will collect the money from [...]
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ACCURACY OF CORPORATE LOSSES
Risk management is a hugely information-hungry process. Keeping an up-to-date record of banking or fund winners and losers is a data-intensive exercise. Completeness and the accuracy of the data are the bedrock for corporate scrutiny. Banks can be strange animals when it comes to releasing data; they may not even be fully aware of their [...]
Constructing Rate of Change Measurements
Rate of change measurements can be made for any period of time and can be based on hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly data. In my own work, I frequently employ daily closing prices of key market indices or levels of the advance-decline line (a cumulative total of advances minus declines on the NYSE or on [...]