Interesting WEB-Sites for Per Bjarte Solibakke

 

Click here to get the free Adobe Acrobat reader.

Patrick Gannon shows how to calculate option pricing formulas using an HP financial calculator.

SEC's Edgar for viewing and downloading financial reports

You can convert Edgar files to WordPerfect format (readable also in Microsoft Word) by using this downloadable program

The SP bond info site contains a wealth of information. Before going to this site, see my hint about speeding up the viewing/printing of Adobe Acrobat documents.

Three other interesting bond sites are Bonds On-Line and Moody's.

J.P. Morgan's site: Will lead you to many interesting things, including RiskMetrics

Bloomberg

The New York Times Business Section

 

Futures markets and related sites

Chicago Merc

Chicago Board of Trade

Minneapolis Grain Exchange

Kansas City Board of Trade

NY Coffee Sugar and Cocoa Exchange. Has links not only to contract specifications, regulation etc. but also historical price information for Coffee, Sugar 11, Sugar 14, Cocoa, Cheddar Cheese, Milk and more in downloadable form (it seems to fit nicely into an Excel worksheet). There are graphs as well.

a link to all futures exchanges

Nice introductory materials on trading futures

Charts and other data from a commodity broker

Gary Snyder is a trader who reports on how/why he makes his decisions. A lot of pork bellies. Fascinating stuff.

Some material on basis from Sasketchewan

William Margrabe (former Wharton professor, now in business) has a really amusing and interesting site

 

Options-related sites

Finance Watch has a nice Web site about derivatives.

A site run by Numa Financial Systems offers on-line pricing models for options, warrants and convertibles. Also a lot of other information and a discussion forum.

A site run by the Options Council provides links to the various options exchanges.

 

GAUSS / GAUSSX sites

            GAUSS:         http://www.aptech.com

            GAUSSX:      http://www.aptech.com/gaussx10.html

 

            GAUSS Resources: http://www.aptech.com/links2.html

 

            Introductory courses in GAUSS with application in Corporate/Empirical Finance is available here.

 

OXMETRICS sites

http://www.timberlake.co.uk/

 

EVIEWS sites

                        http://www.timberlake.co.uk/

 

 

C /C++ AND ASSOCIATED SOFTWARE

                       

LINUX / UBUNTU 13.10 with associated software

                   www.ubuntu.com

 

Excel sites

Note: There are a lot of Excel sites! Send me the addresses of neat sites only. Here are some that I've found:

http://www.prenhall.com/levine/ book about statistics using Excel as a vehicle--great home page

http://www.stlcyberjew.com/alan/excel/ Alan Barasch's cute Excel page with examples

http://www.100folhas.pt/software/excel.html A really extensive Excel resource

http://www.j-walk.com/ss/ John Walkenbach's page

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/thomas_igel/ Thomas Igel’s page

http://Frontline Systems, the creator of the Excel Solver, has an excellent Web-page with tech info about the Solver

http://University of British Columbia has a tutorial on using the Excel Solver

http://Craig Holden has some excellemt materials, including an interactive “movie” about term structure dynamics

http://Macro Systems – a site full of helpful stuffs

 

Data Download sites

 

1.    Yahoo Finance – Business Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/

 

2.    Free Forex – Historical data:

http://www.global-view.com/forex-trading-tools/forex-history/index.html

 

3.    FRED. Economic Data. ST.LOUIS FED

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DJIA

 

4.    The Polish site:

https://stooq.com/

 

5.    Google Finance

https://www.google.co.uk/finance/

 

6.    Microsoft apps

 https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/?src=office/

 

7.    Stock data solutions

https://www.stock-data-solutions.com/

 

Ålesund

25/02/2019