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What is the correct way of calculating the “average” price based on the “Open,High,Low,Close” daily trade fields?
Open,High,Low,Close
I have these fields, representing the "opening" amount, the highest for the day, the lowest for the day, and what it closed at.
I'm trying to determine the "average&...
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Why does financial trading data not include “average” for a day? [closed]
Unix Timestamp,Date,Symbol,Open,High,Low,Close,Volume BTC,Volume USD
These are the fields that the financial data provider shows in a CSV file, showing per-day Bitcoin trading data between USD.
As ...
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Why might it make sense to buy bonds in a company facing restructuring?
In this video, Sal Khan states, "If you really thought that Lehman Brothers in the long term was going to come back, what you might want to do is somehow try to become one of its bondholders, and ...
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How can I represent this observation regarding options in a formula?
By observing how an option's expiration P/L changes as its underlying asset price changes, we can discover the following system of equations:
$\begin{cases}S_{Long} = C_{Long} + P_{Short} \\ S_{Short} ...
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Why would oil suppliers choose a lower priced contract?
The West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures contract has ranged from \$6 to \$20 in the last 48 hours. The May Shanghai International futures contract is 205 Yuan (CNY). At 7 CNY per USD, that comes ...
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Uniform price vs discriminatory price double auction
Uniform price and discriminatory price double auctions are the most commonly used auction mechanisms in the trading markets especially in peer to peer energy trading markets. However, I could find ...
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Continuous trading economies
Continuous trading economies. I see this expression in many papers but I do not know what it means in the precise technical sense. And I'm not an economist.
Maybe it could refer to an economic ...
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Banks providing loans
Banks are providing loans.
While granting a loan two scenarios can take place
The Loan is repaid
The Loan is not-repaid
The benefit from a re-payed loan is small profit. (Let's say 5% in general)
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what is exactly total bid quantity and total ask quantity?
this is the definition formulated by me:
Quantity total bid: It’s the sum of currently open (remaining untraded and active) orders on the bid side.
Quantity total ask: It’s the sum of currently open ...
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Optimal price function: application of calculus of variations
The problem, I am trying to solve is based on the paper by Rochet and Vila 1994 (see literature below). In fact, it is a variant of the seminal paper of Kyle 1985 in the finance/economics literature. ...
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Commonly used indicators for currency pair strength?
I am attempting to write a program in Python that monitors a single currency pair, GPB/NZD to be specific. My main focus will be to run constant calculations every 2 to 3 minutes in order to give ...
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Is it possible for shareholders to get a companies assets in place of currency?
To my knowledge being a shareholder is owning a portion of a company. Then by that logic shouldn't a shareholder be able to request a companies assets instead of money? As an example, if I own 100 ...
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Are there internationally published sources of trade sanctions?
How to implement embargoes with respect to a trading company?
Let's assume i am a small trading agent which assists and guides small exporters and importers while keeping embargoes and light ...
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How is bartering (goods for goods) conceptually related to trading (goods for money) and monetary (money for money) exchange?
My terminology may be off on this one but I can't get a definitive answer on how the above are related. To me, it seems like bartering is a superset of trading which is itself a superset of monetary ...
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Why is bartering uncommon in modern countries?
Recently, I witnessed two acquaintances of mine engaging in bartering, where one traded his services for the services of the other. Both services had about the same value. By trading them directly, ...
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How is it possible that all currency exchange rates are fixed w.r.t. to each other?
I wondered if it would be beneficial to exchange a currency through one or more "in-between" currencies.
For example: instead of trading Russian Ruble (RUB) to Euro's (EUR), one would trade from RUB ...
