Investments Flashcards
“Top Down” Fundamental Analysis
- the analysis of companies by sales management and competition
A stocks intrinsic value is composed of its current market price in order to determine if it is undervalued or overvalued
Alpha Calculation
Alpha= Rp-(Rf + (Rm-Rf)Bp)
Same as
Rp-(Capm)
Systematic Risk what is it?
Diversify able risk
PRIME
Purchasing Power REINVESTMENT INTEREST RATE MARKET EXCHANGE RATE
What is a CMO
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Collateralized Mortgage Obligations
Issues serval maturities based on repaying loan mortgage
CMOS offer investors protection- prepayment risk
Within a Tranche principal repayment may be made on a pro rata basis
Seeding financing
Early stage business funding for research and development of an idea
Coefficient of Determination
Is the correlation coefficient squared
It tell you the amount a portfolio is effected by the market.
It also tells you the opposite of how much is unsystematic risk by subtracting 1-r2
Instructor value of a security
The present value of expected future cash flows discounted at an appropriate discount rate. Taking the risk into consideration
Hardship withdrawals from 401k can be taken for
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Purchase of a primary residence
College tuition
Medical expense
Burial of spouse of dependent
Prevent eviction
What’s is a Zero Cost Collar
It’s a long position in anatomy I protected by:
Buy a long out to protect and also writing a call to create the premium to cover the cost of the options.
An increase in expiration price will cause an option drive to?
Decrease they have an inverse relationship
Futures contracts
Trade on the Mercantile Exchange
Usually commodities or trill/bonds, munis, foreign currency
Daily settlement on Margin accounts
Taxed at 60/40 long term to short term and position must be treated as closed by year end
Futures:
Someone that produces a commodity is:
Long the position because they own it and would take a
SHORT HEDGE positions by selling wheat futures
Futures:
When someone needs the commodity
They are shirt the position and would use a
LONG HEDGE AND buy the commodity in the future
European Options can only be expired
On date of expiration
American options anytime until expiration
Black Scholes option Valuation
Measure the call price of the option based on effecting variable:
Current price of stock =directly related. Price goes up option price goes up
Exercise price = inversely related(the lower the call option price the more in the money the more it costs)
Time to expire= directly related. Longer more expensive
Volatility= directly related more vomited more expensive
Risk free rate increases= directly raelated
What are the riskiest options
Writing a naked option
Or a short straddle