This was a fun video to make… a high level discussion of the importance of finance. Check it out! VIDEO SUMMARY This video is on the Big Picture of Finance. If you work in finance you will spend a lot of time generating financial reports, calculating equations, and sifting through data. It is really easy to …
This week’s video talks about Qualitative metrics (as opposed to Quantitative metrics). You need both! Watch to see the details… VIDEO SUMMARY This video is on qualitative financial metrics. I have been talking lately about performance metrics, and I have been talking mostly about quantitative metrics. We just talked about Jensen’s alpha. Now there are …
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Check out my explanation of one of the most popular financial metrics… VIDEO SUMMARY This video is on Jensen’s Alpha. In my last video I talked about finance performance metrics. Alpha, is one of the most famous finance metrics. Alpha was a metric created by Michael Jensen in 1968, to evaluate the performance of mutual …
Check out this explanation of Financial Performance Metrics. I have been so excited about this video and discussing the theoretical importance of metrics! VIDEO SUMMARY Financial performance metrics are data that describes whether you are doing a good job with your financial decisions. So whether you are an investor, or a business, it is helpful …
Check out this description of a famous option strategy example… VIDEO SUMMARY In this video we are going to talk about Option strategy. Now there are so many different option strategies, and so many different reasons to use options. I am actually only going to focus on one example, we are going to talk through …
In this video I discuss the famous equation from Black-Scholes… VIDEO SUMMARY In this video we are going to discuss the Black-Scholes pricing model. This is a mathematical formula first published in 1973 by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes. And they received the Nobel Prize in 1997 for their work. What this equation does is …
Check out my explanation of the basics of options… VIDEO SUMMARY In this video we are going to talk about the fundamentals of options. Now when most people talk about options, they think about trading stock options. I’m actually going to talk about options in a broader context, because there is a valuable theoretical idea …
Check out my discussion of Game Theory and Options… VIDEO SUMMARY In this video we are going to talk about the biggest difference between stocks and options. It is pretty easy to trade both stock and options on most trading platforms today. Now there are lots of differences between stocks and options, but there is …
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Check out this exploration of the most common types of financial derivatives! VIDEO SUMMARY In this video we are going to talk about Types of Derivatives. I love talking about this stuff. It’s so interesting, but more than that, Derivatives can be valuable financial tools for organizations. So what I am going to do is …
Check out my latest video where I explore the cool world of Financial Derivatives… VIDEO SUMMARY This video is on financial derivatives. I am going to outline the basics you need to know to understand financial derivatives. This is a very cool subject area, so let’s get started with some basics. A financial derivative is …