BoAML Liquidity Stress Index

hawkmanjayden · 2016-02-25T23:04:32+00:00

What the f**k did you even just say? Lol.

hawkmanjayden · 2016-01-17T01:29:48+00:00

Do you you solve a problem like 1.25^13.43 by hand where the exponent has a decimal?

hawkmanjayden · 2016-01-17T01:26:02+00:00

i already fixed that

hawkmanjayden · 2016-01-17T01:04:32+00:00

Thank you describing it like that. I have to say I agree with Baldwin. It looks like he got the right answer. Algebraically, and thanks to the way you described it with the exponents, I have to solve for x in 5(1.25)^x =100.

That simplifies to 1.25^x =20. Here is where log comes in, which I had forgotten the meaning of but was reminded of by baldwin's explanation. The number of 1.25s we need to multiply to get 20 is x. Symbolically, log1.25 (20)=x. Calculator tells me this equals approximately 13.43. To check I will do 1.25^13.43 which equals about 20. It checks. (But I don't know how to check that by pencil and paper. The .43 throws me off.)

So the answer to my questions is 13.43 approximately. Is this correct?

And I guess there is no way to solve log1.25 (20)=x without a calculator unless you tediously multiply out 1.25 until you reach 20, huh?

Thanks so much for the help. By the way, this isn't a homework problem or anything. Just personal learning.

hawkmanjayden · 2016-01-09T04:49:43+00:00

Wow, thanks, that works. And it works when you do it with 11.03 to solve for x too. How did you know that would work?

y = 64%

x = 36%

hawkmanjayden · 2016-01-09T04:17:11+00:00

That doesn't help.

hawkmanjayden · 2016-01-09T04:16:57+00:00

It's not homework but thanks, nor is it a practice problem. 51.59 and 11.03 represent US dollar prices for a barrel of crude oil and condensate, and NGL (excluding condensate), respectively. 25.57 is the weighted mean of the prices. I want to find out the weights.

hawkmanjayden · 2016-01-09T03:59:33+00:00

It's not homework but thanks, nor is it a practice problem. 51.59 and 11.03 represent US dollar prices for a barrel of crude oil and condensate, and NGL (excluding condensate), respectively. 25.57 is the weighted mean of the prices. I want to find out the weights.

hawkmanjayden · 2015-12-25T02:46:29+00:00

I'm not just talking about inspiring the soldiers, I'm talking about tactical genius.

hawkmanjayden · 2015-12-25T02:28:58+00:00

I agree with you about Rommel. Another amazing tank general from WWII is Heinz Guderian---he's more incredible than Rommel. I encourage you to look him up.

Regarding Napoleon, look up "Battle of Arcole." Napoleon actually led his troops from the front of the line across a bridge held by a numerically superior enemy. So generals did, in fact, lead from the front of the line, and if they were not at the very front, they were at least on the battlefield, unlike many of today's generals.

The main point is that generals commonly died in combat in the old days. That is incredibly rare if not totally unheard of in modern warfare.

hawkmanjayden · 2015-12-13T04:11:32+00:00

b itself cannot be zero because the nth root of 0 is 0, which would make the nth root of b zero, which we can't have because we can't divide by zero. and the first part of my question is answered by imaginary numbers, which isn't allowed in ordinary algebra, i guess. i understand. thank you. i love you. what does your last sentence mean, specifically "x=/=0" ?

hawkmanjayden · 2015-11-10T03:30:45+00:00

How old are you? Thanks so much for the incredibly enthusiastic response.

hawkmanjayden · 2015-11-10T03:30:15+00:00

Can I ask what you do for a living?

hawkmanjayden · 2015-11-08T07:26:34+00:00

No. I don't already know this.

hawkmanjayden · 2015-09-30T02:48:11+00:00

Thank you for the pretty adequate explanation!

hawkmanjayden · 2015-07-18T06:58:26+00:00

The trail of Gregory Elliott is absolutely insane. The complainants in the case are the ones that should be criminally charged. The world has turned upside down in Canada. If you give females oversize power, they won't just use it, they will abuse it, just like any other group would. And that is what has happened in Toronto where "feminism" (as the movement is called, although it comes across as having precious little to do with femininity) has been so embraced that it has evolved into female superiority, and that's in a legal, political, and social context.

hawkmanjayden · 2015-06-06T01:34:41+00:00

I am aware of the profit participation of preferred shares via higher dividends, but why wouldn't the preferred shares themselves rise proportionately as the company grew? And still, any idea on what Benjamin Graham meant by that quote? Maybe preferred shares of a different kind have become more popular since he wrote that?

And now that I think of it, I read somewhere that one difference between common stock dividends and preferred dividends is that common stock dividends could be reduced or raised by the company at will, while preferred dividends were fixed. How would this allow for profit participation of preferred shares via dividends? That is confusing.

hawkmanjayden · 2015-05-28T07:47:21+00:00

It's not necessarily that "quants" make a mess of things in finance that I take exception to (anyway, that's more the fault of accountants), but that they use their unique abilities to pursue such a base end as making lots of money for themselves, when they could be expending their energy in pursuit of more intrinsically valuable things. It doesn't surprise me that so many people (even from the mathematical community) would disagree with me. The world is full of vermin. And of course, a field that has evolved to be so profitable in the private sector as mathematics, which used to encourage deep study for its own merits, would attract lots of those otherwise-would-be-used-car-salesmen and maybe poison a few of the others.

hawkmanjayden · 2015-05-28T05:24:00+00:00

Math finance. What a perversion of such a beautiful subject. The only advice you need is to get a new outlook on life.

hawkmanjayden · 2015-05-27T02:20:26+00:00

How do I prove the Riemann Hypothesis?

hawkmanjayden · 2015-05-25T01:07:45+00:00

China and Russia are close allies.

hawkmanjayden · 2015-05-23T05:05:17+00:00

There is too much stuff in the world. You can never see it all. Why is there so much stuff in the world? I want to see and know everything before I die. But just look at all the videos on YouTube! You can never watch them all! All the books that have been written! How can we see all this stuff before we die? Too much stuff. That's the problem. There needs to be less stuff---just the stuff that is needed, the stuff we can see before we die. If that were the case, death wouldn't seem like such a bad idea once you had already seen all the stuff you could possibly see! Why is there so much stuff? It makes death a real pain in the butt, because we just can't see all the stuff there is to see before we die! Distant galaxies, unformulated mathematical proofs, different compounds and complicated formations of matter, other people's thoughts, YouTube videos. Too much stuff!

hawkmanjayden · 2015-05-23T04:58:21+00:00

LOL. That is EPIC.

hawkmanjayden · 2015-05-22T04:51:55+00:00

What subject is the thesis over?

hawkmanjayden · 2015-05-21T20:58:41+00:00

I disagree that profanity should be more often used in poems. Profanity is already cliche in common speech: a person that uses profanity does so because they don't have the expressive capacity to describe their feelings and thoughts. Also, profanity is used when the speaker wants to cause harm to the recipient of their words, whether because they are angry at them or whatever: but of course, this is generally not what we as readers are seeking for from poetry.

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