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believe the rules are too complex andthe costs too high.
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Calculators.”
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calculators available on the Web. The Department of
Labor does not endorse a specific calculator or the
products...
... according tothe annotation
scheme used, and (iii) stochastic: the parse selected
by the stochastic disambiguator. The error reduc-
tion row lists the reduction in error rate relative to
the upper and ... constraint-based parser and
a stochastic disambiguation model. We re-
port on the results of applying this sys-
tem to parsing the UPenn Wall Street
Journal (WSJ) treebank. The model com-
bines full and partial ... free text. The approach presented in this
paper is a first attempt to scale up stochastic parsing
systems based on linguistically fine-grained hand-
coded grammars tothe UPenn WallStreet Journal
(henceforth...
... samples, and compared them
with the Treebank partial bmcketings of the sentences of
those samples. For each sample, we counted the percent-
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Parsing theWallStreetJournal with the
Inside-Outside ... taken from theWall
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algorithm for stochastic context-free grammars.
The initial grammar for the inference process
makes no ,assumption of the kinds ... of the available
training material ,and evaluate the effect of the training
size on the bracketing perform,'mce. Then, we describe a
method for reducing the number of parameters in the...
... things as the income statement and balance sheet, the
numbers leap off the page at you.
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58 THE A GILE MANAGER’S GUIDETOUNDERSTANDING ... statements to evaluate a company’s con-
42 THE A GILE MANAGER’S GUIDETOUNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
because you’ve used funds to pay down the overall balance in
the account.
The company’s...
... unit for all the goods avail-
able for sale. Multiplying that figure by the total units in ending
inventory gives you the inventory’s value.
56 THE A GILE MANAGER’S GUIDETOUNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL ... perfectly willing to pay lots
more for the stock on the open market than they’d get if the
company were sold. But the greater the gap between book value
and market value, the greater the risk.
Calculations ... will warm to like a
cold dog to a hot stove.
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don’t want any other object, now or in the future, to become coupled to
them (the way they work or even that they exist at all). ... one to two years old and you need to add a new func-
tion, there is effort to write the function and then effort to integrate it
into the system. Where do you spend most of your time? Writing the ... addition to these individual authors and thought leaders, we also
want to acknowledge the thousands of students and consulting clients
who have contributed endlessly to our understanding of...
... curves for three separate
IBM put options: the far-out-of -the- money 80 put, the at -the-
money 95 put, andthe deep-in -the- money 115 put.
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... differences in the risk curves for the
far-out-of -the- money February 80 put option andthe deep-in-
the- money February 115 put option. Many traders are lured into
buying the inexpensive out-of -the- money ... (100 ì $5). The option premium is the amount that
the option buyer pays tothe option writer. It also repre-
sents the total amount of risk assumed by the buyer of
the option andthe maximum...
... of money if the stock rises or falls,
whereas another position will only make money if the stock
does not rise or fall beyond a certain amount. Understanding
how to craft a position to achieve ... succeed consistently in the long run are those
who make the effort and take the time to learn the skills re-
quired to achieve lasting success. They apply these lessons in the
real world, trade ... the
money? Should I buy or sell in -the- money or out-of -the- money
options? The PROVEST method uses option deltas and the
volatility of the underlying security to measure the probability
that a given...
... wealth. The number one reason that most people
want to become traders in the stock, futures, and options markets is
to attain financial rewards. Stories about the large sums of money to
be made andthe ... where they need more capital to
finance further growth. Many times the solution to this problem is to offer
stock in the company tothe public through an initial public offering (IPO).
To do this the ... best-sellers, The
Options Course and Trade Options Online, and co-written with his part-
ner, Tom Gentile, two others: The Stock Market Course andThe Volatility
Course. These “definitive guides to trading”...
... known as moneyness.
The terms in -the- money (ITM), at -the- money (ATM), and out-of -the-
money (OTM) are used with reference to an option’s moneyness. A call
option is in -the- money if the strike ... agree to sell the stock at a prede-
termined price until the option expires. On the other hand, if you are a put
seller, you have the obligation to buy the stock, or have it put to you, at the
option’s ... than the price of the underlying security and
out-of -the- money if the strike price is below the price of the underlying se-
curity. A call or put option is at -the- money or near -the- money if the...
... by
purchasing the stock and selling the call at the same time. The idea is to
sell a call against stock that is already owned. If we do not want to give up
the stock, we must be willing to buy the option ... occurred on the long stock position and you are ready to sell
another call to offset your risk.
ã The stock falls below the initial stock price but stays above
the breakeven: The long stock position ... underlying stock continues to rise or remains stable:
Wait for the option to expire worthless and keep the credit received
from the premium.
ã The underlying stock reverses and starts to fall: Exit
the...
... mathematical rela-
tionships of these Greek variables:
1. The delta of an at -the- money option is about 50. Out-of -the- money op-
tions have smaller deltas and they decrease the farther out-of -the-
money ... enter the trade, and then wait for the announcement date. In the
normal case, on or about the announcement date the volatility will spike
up andthe stock will make its move one way or the other. ... different let-
ter in the Greek alphabet—delta, gamma, and theta. In the beginning, it
is important to be aware of all of the Greeks, although understanding
the delta is the most crucial to your success....
... Losses begin to develop as the
stock moves below the breakeven and are limited tothe stock falling to
zero. In this case, if the stock falls to zero, one short put will cover the
long put and result ... 100 and then
adding the net credit received. The maximum risk is limited tothe stock
going to zero and equals the lower strike price minus the difference be-
tween the two strike prices plus the ... only if you hold the po-
sition to expiration andthe underlying stock closes at the option
strike price.
ã Unlimited Reward: Unlimited tothe upside and limited to the
downside (as the underlying...