Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Exchange Traded Funds(ETFs) in NSE India

I have come up with an article on "Exchange Traded Funds(ETFs) in NSE India". I have briefly discussed the following ETFs traded in NSE.

BankBeES tracks the performance of CNX Bank Index.
NiftyBeES tracks the performance of S&P CNX Nifty Index
LIQUIDBeES - short-term government securities and money market funds with short maturities. No big returns with this fund, but provides safety.
GoldBeES - Corresponds to the domestic price of the gold.

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Estimate your 2010 Federal Income Taxes

I have come up with an article on "Estimate your 2010 Federal Income Taxes". It also includes a downloadable calculator for your desktop. Click the following link to see how much you are paying for Federal Taxes on each bracket.

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Friday, June 18, 2010

C++ Basics and Advanced Concepts

Basics

Struct, Class, Struct and Union, Constructor, Destructor, Copy Constructor, Assignment Operator, Operator Overloading, Pre/Post Increment, Inheritance,Multiple Inheritance, Virtual Functions, Abstract Class, Abstraction,Polymorphism, Data Hiding, Encapsulation

Advanced

3-D Dynamic Arrays, Double / Triple Pointers, Pointer vs Reference, Function Pointers, Function Templates, Class Templates, Singleton Class,Exceptions & Stack Unwinding, Shallow & Deep Copy, Casting Styles, static_cast, dynamic_cast, reinterpret_cast, const_cast, Mutable, Pragma Pack, Comma Operator



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Taking advantage of Child Tax Credit

Do you know that 2010 may be (!) the last time you get $1000 as child tax credit? You can make yourself qualified if you plan it ahead of time. Click the following link to read the entire article.

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Friday, June 11, 2010

Leveraged Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)

The Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are very good investments rather than a single stock as it contains many stocks in small proportions usually in the same sector. We can trade during market hours unlike mutual funds. However there are some ETFs with so much of leverages; We need to be very careful while playing with those funds.

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Emergency Cash Needed?

If you need huge money, lets say 6 months or one year of your gross salary, as an emergency, then consider other options rather than depending on credit cards. Click here to read the entire article



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Saving Money with Credit Cards

Credit card became most popular in today's world. Banks of doing excellent job in offering credit cards to the customers and monitoring them. But form a customer point of view, are we using the credit cards effectively? Lets read this entire article completely to know more details.

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Free Implied Options Volatility Calculator

Are you trading stocks or options? Are you interested in knowing the future volatility of a stock? Download our free implied Options Volatility Calculator and give the following inputs.

1. Call or Put Option
2. Option Price
3. Stock Price
4. Strike Price
5. Risk Free Rate
6. Time to maturity in days.


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Calculating Implied Option Volatility in C++

Implied volatility of a stock is the future volatility and is calculated using the derivatives of the underlying stock. The factors used in calculating implied volatility are given below:

1.Risk Free Rate
2.strike price
3.Spot price
4.time to maturity
5.option's price.
6.option type - call / put

Given the stock historical volatility, finding the option price is easier using black–scholes formula. To know more Black–Scholes Formula, click here.
But finding the volatility using this formula is a bit difficult, to read the complete article click the following link.

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Free Option Price Calculator

Are you trading options? Are you sure you are paying the correct price? Check it with free option price calculator that uses Black-Scholes formula.


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Home Price Valuation Based on Inflation

I have come up with an article on Home Price Valuation Based on Inflation. It discusses the relationship between increasing home prices and US dollar inflation rate.


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Calculating Historical Volatility in C++

I have come up with an article on calculating the historical volatility of a stock using C++ program.


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Retirement Accounts - 401K and IRA

I have come up with an article on Retirement Accounts - 401K and IRA. Navigate through the following links to read more.


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Gold prices ready to go down?

Gold prices rallied from year to date (04 Jan - 14 May 2010) by 9.79% in USD, 6.83% in INR, 22.39% in GBP and 27.82% in EUR.

Is this is the right time to buy Gold?
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Exchange Traded Funds with short term futures

I have written an article about Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) with short term futures and its risk. This article explains about UNG, a fund of natural gas near month futures contract price.

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Dow Jones Industrial Average - 1000 point intraday swing

On May 06, 2010, Dow Jones Industrial Average had 1000 point intraday swing.





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