Author: Jérémie Smaga
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CFA Level 1 Review: Quantitative Finance, Time Value of Money.
In this post, I will present a summary of the quantitative finance part of the CFA Level 1 exam. The time value of money is a trivial concept in Finance, which can be summarized as “one dollar today is better than one dollar tomorrow“, because of the risk-free interest rate \(r\). The following formulas allow…
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A new challenge has entered the ring!
My first social life in the first 6 months of year 2012 has been compromised by a new challenge I decided to take on this year, the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) curriculum. The CFA program is divided in 3 exams denoted Level I, II and III. The candidate gets the CFA designation upon completing the…
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My wishes for 2012
Good evening everyone, As we are converging towards the end of 2011, I would like to come back on the major events of this year and share with you my views on the upcoming one. Finance Let’s first start by a global overview of the financial world. As a matter of fact, 2011’s second semester…
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Handling interaction between the Business Layer and the UI with the MVVM design pattern
Hi everyone, I’m taking the time to write this little post because I came across a great design pattern to handle interaction between the Business Layer (BL) and the user interface (UI). This problem usually arises when creating multi-layers application which can be used by different kinds of users. As this blog is mainly dedicated…
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Asynchronous Financial Data processing using F#
Hi everyone, I was looking at a book to find some algorithm to detect clusters within financial data. I managed to find a decent algorithm for that matter, but I then wanted to test it on some real data. Hence, I had to get the data from somewhere and I chose to use Yahoo! Finance.…