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... disking and harrowing the soil in late winter and planting in the spring to hoeing and weeding, topping and suckering, priming (i.e., picking) and curing in the summer, to selling in the Winston ... took the other side And if the Dodgers in the National League, why the Indians in the American? Because, I’m almost certain, of the ’54 World Series when the Indians played the Giants, 22 Off the ... reaching the hospital Some—with bulbar polio, the kind that affected respiration—were placed in the dreaded iron lung Others had legs and other limbs paralyzed And others, including me, endured the...

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... hilltop in Ramallah governorate, commands the surrounding area, including the Palestinian village of ‘Ein Qinya (foreground) Photo by J.C Tordai, 2007 17 Settlements and other infrastructure in the ... Annex and 41 Settlements and other infrastructure in the West Bank Military infrastructure in the West Bank The IDF operates 48 military bases in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, controlling ... examines the humanitarian impact on Palestinians from the ongoing construction of settlements in the West Bank and other Israeli infrastructure, such as the Barrier and the roads that accompany them...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... the underlying to’ the opposing party The decline in the value of other party, the put seller, consequently incurs the an underlying asset potential obligation to purchase the underlying Buying ... components The first of these is the amount equal to the difference between the strike price and the price of the underlying, and it is termed the intrinsic value The second component is the time ... period The put buyer has the right, but not the obligation, to sell the underlying The put seller has the obligation to buy the underlying at the put buyer’s discretion These are the terms of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... went to the floor and wedged my way into the crowd, and I waited, knowing that I was covered The bell sounded and the shouting began, and after a few brief stops the FTSE landed at 4400 The traders ... investors On the other hand, a 19 per cent probability of December Corn moving to 440 by expiration may be the point at which another investor wishes to cover a short position in the underlying ... at the close, I knew I was going to bear the cost of the time decay That night the US cracked The next morning, the BBC news was calling for serious losses in London, and I knew there were going...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... expiration, the gammas of both the atthe-money options, and the options near -the- money, increase The effect of time decay, however, causes the gammas of the far out-of -the- money and far in- the- money ... Those nearest the money, the 360s and the 400s, also have increased theta The far out-of -the- money and deep in- the- money options can have decreased theta, but this is because they contain only a ... said in Chapter 3, all options lose their value at an accelerated rate as they approach expiration The at -the- money options, the 380s, have the most increase in theta because they contain the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... The further a spread is from the underlying, the less cost or income it has, and the less probability it has of becoming in- the- money 1×1s and volatility skews In the stock or bond markets, the ... spreads There are other ways of financing the purchase of a directional position Those that we will discuss in this chapter are variations of the long call and put spreads Again, they involve buying ... spread has the greater probability to profit The probability of either spread expiring in the money can be approximated by the delta of the strike that is nearest the underlying In the above examples,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... Below 328.50 the spread profits point for point with a decline in the stock price, and the maximum return is the full extent of the shares’ decline (There are probably buyers for Marks and Spencer ... break-even level is the strike price minus the cost of the spread, or 350 – 21.50 = 328.50 Above 371.50 the spread profits point for point with an increase in the stock price, and the maximum return ... is the 85 put in the same transaction In order to trade to sell a put this spread, you must be reasonably certain that the underlying is due to increase in value, because the short put incurs the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... advanced topics such as how the Greeks interact Bear in mind that the Greeks have non-linear variables, and so you need to read about them and work with them In other words, reading this part will give ... buy stock and write the call, and if there are no dividends involved, and if you’re a short-term investor, then just sell the in the money put and save yourself commissions You’ll have the same ... I don’t recommend the buy-write as an initiating trade On the other hand, if you’ve inherited the stock from your father, who bought it for $20 or thereabouts, and we’re at the start of a bear...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... and puts The calls are losing value because the stock is moving away from them, but they are gaining value as the increasing implied volatility increases their premium There is increased demand ... to remain relatively stable when the underlying remains in the current trading range The belly of the skew accounts for this The increasing slopes of the parabolic skew indicate that the implied ... because slackening demand results in their grinding lower Negative call skews in stock indexes indicate that as their markets move steadily higher and the value of their indexes increases, an...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... reading this book: it may lead to you being fired One thing they all had in common: they cut costs while increasing risk In other words, they didn’t buy the put, or worse, they sold the put These ... appears – and I can’t say for certain – that they increased the volume of their derivatives exposure in order to maintain their profit level Fair enough But they also increased their leverage They ... closing positions our books and to avoid pin risk But then again, between market-makers the arbs try to pay 19.75 for the above box, and they try to sell it at 20.25 They often this by trading the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... call increases in value at half the rate of the underlying, while the 0.50 delta put decreases in value at half the rate of the underlying If the underlying moves down, the call decreases while the ... decreases in price by 20 per cent for a small upwards move in the underlying 265 266 Questions and answers False, they both change the same amount in either case If the underlying moves up, the 0.50 ... volatility, and that they may be overvalued Another possibility is that the options are anticipating a near-term increase in the historical volatility, and if so, they are correctly valued Questions and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... somewhere outside the BSC, and inoculated ECE safely transported in and out of the BSC and the containers with ECE repositioned into designated racks in the incubator Midwest Research Institute is ... decontaminated with alcohol, and a hole punched over the air sac without piercing the CAM The ECE were inoculated with up to 100 μl of virus-containing material using a ml tuberculin syringe and ... analyses, interpreted data, oversaw the training of technicians, and drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... concentrations in mothers, fathers and the mixed samples of hair The difference between mothers and fathers is significant at the p < 0.05 level The increased levels of contamination in the mothers relative ... mothers in were over the age of 30 and only two parents (a father and mother) over 40 None of the parents (all of whom are Moslems) reported drinking alcohol Four fathers and none of the mothers ... from the nape of the neck with stainless steel scissors and placed in a sealed polythene bag The centre of the first 15 cm of the scalp end of the lock was employed in the case of the mother Fathers’...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... enthusiasm for other and sharing knowledge, experience, information to each other that definitely result in improving performance of each individual and the whole organization, and vice verse ... responsible for hand delivering and collecting the instruments and return to author for coding and analyzing Indirectly: Email to the personal email of the participants who accept to take part in this ... with many interesting members of the program who have interacted and helped me so much in studying and in many other fields Therefore, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude and deepest...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2015, 20:09

... on past earnings and other information not contained in past earnings, such as changes in the competitive environment o f the firm or new product introductions Since accounting earnings are generally ... fiiture earnings using past earnings and other information voluntarily provided by firms I examine the voluntary disclosure o f other information that firms make in their annual reporting to shareholders ... f Other Inform ation 18 18 25 Research Design and Empirical Results for the Relative Roles of Earnings and Other Inform ation 4.1 Time Series Properties o f Abnormal Earnings and Other Information...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 16:44

... feminine/feminine pairings are becoming increasingly common and accepted within the community, although they are not as prevalent as masculine/feminine pairings; they are also often invisible because ... because of their femininity, as they can be mistaken for heterosexual friends At the other end of the spectrum exists the masculine/masculine pairing, which may include andro/andro 31 These relationships ... being discriminated against, I feel like in certain situations [being a lesbian] is kind of cool… in Singapore being lesbian is like nothing, nothing Nobody really cares, and it’s totally fine.”...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 12:56

... enthusiasm for other and sharing knowledge, experience, information to each other that definitely result in improving performance of each individual and the whole organization, and vice verse ... responsible for hand delivering and collecting the instruments and return to author for coding and analyzing Indirectly: Email to the personal email of the participants who accept to take part in this ... of the effects reveals that in both state sectors and other sectors Earning has the strongest effect on employees’ performance, and in state sectors it affects stronger than in other sectors The...

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... The New England Journal of Medicine Downloaded from nejm.org on January 6, 2013 For personal use only No other uses without permission Copyright © 1994 ... Massachusetts Medical Society All rights reserved The New England Journal of Medicine Downloaded from nejm.org on January 6, 2013 For personal use only No other uses without permission Copyright © 1994 ... Massachusetts Medical Society All rights reserved The New England Journal of Medicine Downloaded from nejm.org on January 6, 2013 For personal use only No other uses without permission Copyright © 1994...

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... coef®cient, then such generational cleavages in ideology appear stronger in the US than in the other two countries, perhaps indicating that the experience of the civil rights and antiwar movements of the ... coalition in the United States is 2.24, while in Sweden it is 2.41 The mean values for the unionized segments, on the other hand, differ signi®cantly (p < 0.001): 4.97 in Sweden and 3.72 in the United ... predicting individuals' class consciousness, the country in which they live or their class location and class experiences? We will then break the data into the three national samples and analyze the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... photosynthesis, wave action, or other natural means The microorganisms instead deplete the oxygen of the receiving waters, doing grave harm to other living things in the water According to the EPA, primary ... of drinking and recreational waterborne diseases in humans in the United States In the spring of 1993 in Milwaukee, municipal drinking water that was within bacterial standards was contaminated ... Chapters, and Wetlands Alert, Inc.256 The groups maintain that sewage effluent and other fluid contaminants injected into Florida’s aquifer system, via hundreds of shallow and deep wells throughout the...

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