...Landscape & Beginning Literature Review Introduction The goal of my capstone project, the Simulated Investment Fund and Technology Blindside Strategy, is to develop a simulated investment fund and study particular firms that are part of the investment fund to understand the technology blind-side risks within those firms. A major part of it is to build a successful trading strategy. “In finance, a trading strategy is a fixed plan that is designed to achieve a profitable return by going long or short in markets. The main reasons that a properly researched trading strategy helps are its verifiability, quantifiability, consistency, and objectivity” [1]. Currently we have two trading strategies combined together. The first strategy is called Polynomial Regression Strategy, which uses mathematical method to calculate the high degree polynomial regression line. Based on the trend we could find the signals to buy or sell stocks. The second trading strategy is called Discounted Cash Flow method, which is a part of fundamental analysis strategy. It uses future free cash flow to discount them back to arrive at a present value, which is used to evaluate the attractiveness for a potential investment. However, there are so many different strategies in the world except for what we are working on right now. The most popular five trading strategies are as following: Mean Reversion In the world of technology analysis, moving average is one of the most popular and widely used indicators. What started...
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...claims measure the number of filings for state jobless benefits. This report provides a timely, but often misleading, indicator of the direction of the economy, with increases (decreases) in claims potential signaling slowing (accelerating) job growth. On a week-to-week basis, claims are quite volatile, and many analysts therefore track a four week moving average to get a better sense of the underlying trend. It typically takes a sustained move of at least 30K in claims to signal a meaningful change in job growth. Goal: The goal of this project is to model seasonally adjusted initial claims and then predict the initial claims for the future because it is used by financial institutions, especially in currency trading, to get a better idea about the direction of the United States economy. Note: The data is acquired from the Federal Reserve Economic Data website: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ICSA II. Exploratory Data Analysis The plot of the time series...
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...these operators can be transformed into individual blocks when constructing the circuit for computing the multiplicative inverse. From this simplified equation, the multiplicative inverse circuit 〖GF(2〗^8) can be produced as shown in Figure. Fig 3.3 Multiplicative Inversion of S-box The legends for the blocks within the multiplicative inversion module from above are shown in the below figure. Legends for the building blocks of Multiplicative inversion module 3.4 ISOMORPHIC MAPPING AND INVERSE ISOMORPHIC MAPPING The multiplicative inverse computation will be done by decomposing the more complex 〖GF(2〗^8) to lower order fields of 〖GF(2〗^1), 〖GF(2〗^2) and 〖GF((2〗^2 )^2) . In order to accomplish the above, the following irreducible polynomials are used. 〖 GF(2〗^2) ► GF(2) : x2 + x + 1 〖 GF((2〗^2 )^2) ► 〖GF(2〗^2) : x2 + x + φ 〖 GF((2〗^2 )^2 )^2) ►〖 GF((2〗^2 )^2) : x2 + x + λ Where φ = 〖{10}〗_2 and λ...
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...At this point it is necessary to expand each of the polynomials, multiply the results by the coefficients, and combine like terms. Do this and you will get a polynomial of the form: This equation has five possible roots, since the highest powered term is of degree 5. So now you need to look up the general solution to the quintic equation and plug in the coefficients and calculate the five possible roots. There is just one problem, though. There is no general solution to the quintic equation. Never was and never will be (that was proven by a mathematician named Abel about 200 years ago). There are general solutions up to the quartic (highest degree is 4), but those will not help here. This problem cannot be solved with a simple mathematical formula. There is a practical way around this problem called interpolation, and that is how such problems are solved. It is exactly like playing the children’s game “battleship”. You guess at an answer, and if it is right, great. If it is wrong, guess again. In this case, you make a guess at the appropriate discount rate and solve for the NPV. If you guess 6%, the NPV would be around $21. Since the NPV is positive, you had not discounted the cash flows by a large enough value, so try again. This time if you guess 10%, you would get an NPV of about -$21, so you had discounted too much and need to try a lower value. At a discount rate of 8%, you get an NPV of $0, and this is the IRR. But there is still a difficulty. The original problem...
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...Project appraisal techniques are used to evaluate possible investment opportunities and to determine which of these opportunities will generate the best return to the firm’s shareholders. Therefore, it is vital for the firm if they wish to continue receiving funds from shareholders to employ the best techniques available when analysing which investment opportunities will give the best return. There are two types of project appraisal techniques: non-discounted cash flows and discounted cash flows. The Net Present Value and internal rate of return, examples of discounted cash flows, are in use in many large corporations and regarded as more effective than the traditional techniques of payback and accounting rate of return. In this paper, I will examine the use of the Net Present Value, and the provisions it makes for specific cases, such as unequal lives and mutually exclusive projects. Then I will conclude with the technique that has been proved the best for investment appraisal through the analysis and comparison of project appraisal techniques. The Net Present Value (NPV) method is used by 75% of firms when deciding on investment projects. The reasons for its wide use is that firstly, the NPV rule takes into account the time value of money, meaning that it recognises that a pound today is worth more than a pound tomorrow as the pound today can be invested to start earning interest immediately. Secondly, NPV depends solely on the forecasted cash flows from the project...
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...critical path analysis c) work breakdown structure d) resource breakdown structure A ____ is used to allocate money into an organization’s budget. Select one: a) final estimate b) rough order of magnitude estimate c) budgetary estimate d) definitive estimate ____ addresses the ease of performing maintenance on a product. Select one: a) Performance b) Maintainability c) Reliability d) Functionality Good ____ is very important to project success because it helps improve the accuracy of time, cost, and resource estimates, it defines a baseline for performance measurement and project control, and it aids in communicating clear work responsibilities. a) scope definition b) scope management c) scope planning d) scope verification ____ allow for future situations that are unpredictable. a) Contingency reserves b) Known unknowns c) Indirect reserves d) Management reserves After discovering WBS items and structure using the ____ technique, you could then translate the information into chart or tabular form. a) bottom-up b) analogy c) top-down d) mind mapping A ____ is a bell-shaped curve that is symmetrical regarding the average value of the population (the data being analysed). a) symmetrical distribution b) polynomial distribution c) normal distribution d) skewed distribution A ____ is a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines...
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...Natalia Perez Portfolio September 28, 2012 Table of Contents Statement of Authenticity …………………………………………………………………...……3 Personal Mission Statement……………………………………………………………………….4 Elevator Speech …………………………………………..………………………………………5 Education………………………………………………………………………………………….6 Resume…………………………………………………………………………………………….9 Professional development and Training ……………………………………………………..…..10 Reference…………………………………………………………………………………..…….11 Reference List …………………………………………………………………………….……..12 Awards and Accomplishments …………………………………………………………….……13 Volunteer History ………………………………………………………………………………..14 Professional Affiliations …………………………………………….…………………………..15 Career Path ………………………………………………………………..……………………..16 Work Samples ………………………………………………………………………...…………17 Statement of Authenticity I, Ani Ohanian am the writer of all of the statements you are about to read. None of these statements of information is plagiarized. All of the information you are going to read is valid. These statements are honest representation of what I represent in skills as a career in the Business Administration field. Personal Mission Statement I am a smart, determined and compassionate woman that will not give up on my dreams. I will not let anything get in the way of my success as it is for me and my family. I will...
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...Shirking of one’s duties is often encountered in team production settings because A. few individuals are well-intentioned b. teamwork is recognized as less significant than individual performance c. teammates face a dilemma posed by a dominant strategy to shirk d. reputation effects dominate in long-term teams e. teamwork can be less than the sum of the individual parts Generally, investors expect that projects with high expected net present values also will be projects with low risk high risk certain cash flows short lives The approximate probability of a value occurring that is greater than one standard deviation from the mean is approximately (assuming a normal distribution) 68.26% 2.28% 34% 15.8 The ____ is the ratio of ____ to the ____. standard deviation; covariance; expected value coefficient of variation; expected value; standard deviation correlation coefficient; standard deviation; expected value coefficient of variation; standard deviation; expected value Based on risk-return tradeoffs observable in the financial marketplace, which of the following securities would you expect to offer higher expected returns than corporate bonds? U.S. Government bonds municipal bonds common stock commercial paper A change in the level of an economic activity is desirable and should be undertaken as long as the marginal benefits exceed the ____. marginal returns...
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...novel approaches to longstanding problems. In the next update of C-Atlas, Ensoft intends to update the capabilities of C-Atlas. These improvements are intended to provide a customizable approach to evaluating a program’s design, structure, and security. Such an update seeks to address any number of problems. Analyzing a C program’s memory management is one such problem. This project would seek to use C-Atlas to better analyze C memory management. In memory leak (memory management) analysis, the user must show that for every path forward from an variable’s allocation, there exists at least one deallocation site for that variable. This task is trivial, unless the variable’s allocation and deallocation(s) are separated by a vast field of possible control flow. C-Atlas offers a flexible interface for data flow graph generation as a solution to this problem. Through this interface, one may then produce connected data flow graphs, allowing a single variable’s path to be traced through multiple functions. This visual aide can greatly increase the time efficiency of performing memory leak analysis. The idea of this project was to write a script to produce meaningful data flow graphs for analyzing memory leaks. This script will seek to help confirm (or dispute) if some allocation site is dominated by some deallocation-site along every feasible data flow path. Finally, the script will be tested on a release of the XINU kernel. RESEARCH The research portion of this...
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...CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PRACTICUM INTRODUCTION According to Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners Second Edition (2011), practicum or practical means involving or relating to real situations and events. In the other words, it is the activity which not only about theory but facing the real world works. Students will be trained to apply the theory during this period. In Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), practicum is obligated for students in some courses as a fulfillment in the course structure. Practicum program is also designed to provide and expose student to real world problem situations before the end of graduation. From this program, students are given the opportunity to practice and apply their understanding and theoretical knowledge that have been learned in classroom with the help and guidance from the university and the attached organization. It is a platform of training and preparing the student before entering the job market. Practicum program is compulsory for all students pursuing Bachelor of Business Mathematics with Honors in UUM. This program can also be seen as a method to integrate the theoretical knowledge with the hands-on training. In this way, students would have an opportunity to apply their understanding of theories into the real working environment within industries. Practicum program provides opportunities for students to improve two vital skills which are soft kills and hard skills. It aims to help student to apply these two skills...
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...Desk Calculator BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, PILANI WORK INTEGRATED LEARNING PROGRAMMES DIVISION BITS-WIPRO Collaborative Programme: MS in Information Technology, YEAR-2012. Abstract: The project is to solve an infix expression using a desk calculator. Input is given as an infix expression and output is obtained in a text file. Method followed to solve the expression is, the input is fetched from the input text document and converted to postfix notation using expression tree data structure, the resulted RPN expression is evaluated and the result is shown in output text file. Infix is converted to postfix because, it is easy for the compiler to execute the expression in postfix format. Commonly used data structures for evaluating expressions are stacks and expression trees, both of the above data structures are analyzed and concluded that expression trees are the best suited data structure for solving infix expression. 1.Introduction: Consider a situation where you are writing a programmable calculator. If the user types in 10 + 10, how would you compute a result of the expression? You might have a solution for this simple expression. But what if he types in 3 * 2 / (5 + 45) % 10 ? What would you do then? The expression that you see above is known as Infix Notation. It is a convention which humans are familiar with and is easier to read. But for a computer...
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...number of subjects such as business studies, marketing, accounting and financial management, operations management, qualitative techniques, history, science, statistics, dissertation and its proposal development, human resources and organizational behaviour are covered. In pertinent to the given subjects, academic assistance is a kind of help provided to the students in developing particular topic related subjects content. Academic assistance is not only limited to provide a notes specific to subjects, but also it covers a full helps in completing the project steps such as authentic data collection and then presentation. As a service provider, we are providing academic assistance to all grades of students including school, college and Phd students. Our professional subject writers provide you a tailor made content and helps pertinent to the subject query. Accounting can be explained as the recording, reporting and analysis of different financial transactions as per the Generally...
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...i Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach Draft of a book: Dated January 2007 Comments welcome! Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak Princeton University complexitybook@gmail.com Not to be reproduced or distributed without the authors’ permission This is an Internet draft. Some chapters are more finished than others. References and attributions are very preliminary and we apologize in advance for any omissions (but hope you will nevertheless point them out to us). Please send us bugs, typos, missing references or general comments to complexitybook@gmail.com — Thank You!! DRAFT ii DRAFT About this book Computational complexity theory has developed rapidly in the past three decades. The list of surprising and fundamental results proved since 1990 alone could fill a book: these include new probabilistic definitions of classical complexity classes (IP = PSPACE and the PCP Theorems) and their implications for the field of approximation algorithms; Shor’s algorithm to factor integers using a quantum computer; an understanding of why current approaches to the famous P versus NP will not be successful; a theory of derandomization and pseudorandomness based upon computational hardness; and beautiful constructions of pseudorandom objects such as extractors and expanders. This book aims to describe such recent achievements of complexity theory in the context of the classical results. It is intended to both serve as a textbook as a reference for self-study. This means...
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...algebraic expressions, linear equations and inequalities, solving problems in a linear programming involving graphical method, simplex method, transportation method and assignment method, the break even analysis, the decision theory, business forecasting and inventory. GRADING SYSTEM: To obtain a passing mark, students should at least master 75% of the lesson. Computations of grades are shown below: For Prelim, Midterm and Final: |Class Standing (70%) |Examination (30%) | |Quizzes (20%) |Assignment (10%) |Project(20%) |Participation(20%) | | |Tentative Grade = Class standing + Examination | |Final Grade = Prelim (30%) + Midterm (30%) + Final (40%) | COURSE CONTENT: |Time Allotment |Unit Content |Specific Objectives |Teaching Methods |Activities / Projects / |Mode of Assessment | | |...
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...Support Vector Machines Operations Management Project Report by- Suryansh Kapoor PGPM (2011 – 2013) 11P171 Section – ‘C’ Supervised by- Prof. Manoj Srivastava Abstract In today’s highly competitive world markets, high reliability plays increasingly important role in the modern manufacturing industry. Accurate reliability predictions enable companies to make informed decisions when choosing among competing designs or architecture proposals. This is all the more important in case of specialized fields where operations management is a necessary requirement. Therefore, predicting machine reliability is necessary in order to execute predictive maintenance, which has reported benefits include reduced downtime, lower maintenance costs, and reduction of unexpected catastrophic failures. Here, the role of Support Vector Machines or SVMs comes in to predict the reliability of the necessary equipment. SVMs are cited by various sources in the field of medical researches⁶ and other non-mining fields¹ to be better than other classifying methods like Monte-Carlo simulation etc. because SVM models have nonlinear mapping capabilities, and so can more easily capture reliability data patterns than can other models. The SVM model minimizes structural risk rather than minimizing training errors improves the generalization ability of the models. Contents 1. Objective 2. Literature Review * Introduction of Reliability * Introduction...
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