Throughout their history, puts and calls [1] on common stock have been criticized as mere gambling opportunities. Recently, the creation of listed options on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and three regional exchanges in the United States, has given new respectability to options as investment vehicles. By year-end 1977, listed options to 217 common stocks were a...

the goal of this research is to predict total stock market index of tehran stock exchange, using the compound method of arima and neural network in order for the active participations of finance market as well as macro decision makers to be able to predict trend of the market. first, the series of price index was decomposed by wavelet transform, then the smooth's series  predicted by using...

In the period November 2003 to February 2004, there was an unambiguous upward trend in the U.S. stock market. Over the same period, the U.S. dollar kept depreciating against all major currencies. Analysts kept trying to predict when this downward trend would come to an end based on the U.S. trade deficit. Was not the exchange rate affected by the stock market instead? In this paper, I study if ...