Trying to learn a bit about algorithmic trading: https://www.quantopian.com/tutorials/getting-started

Wish I had had the agency to buy SBUX when the news broke of them being /our coffee/

Can't get lower...but now. Wait, can it?

It can, but I think the recent boycott news is priced in now. These emotional libby things I expect a quick dip then return, which is what already happened (dip on Friday, and then climb back up on Monday, so I think that ship has sailed already)

Any reason to think the VA 30-year mortgage rate will move in the next 20 days? I'm floating the rate at the moment.

@Zyzz @SamanthaM ^^

@Tycho Brahe

@Argument of Perigee there is a fed meeting May 1-2. I don't think they are expected to hike rates but you never know

4/27 we have the 1st reading (out of 3) of 1Q18 GDP

negative news here would be in your favor

and then of course 1st fri of every month we have the unemployment reading

Always appreciate your input @Zyzz Thank you, Sir!

Rate hike on this much federal debt? Probably not.

They have been climbing...

@Argument of Perigee
Prediction: Long term rates will continue to rise.
Spring is the beginning of "home-buying season." This year loans are more expensive with less properties for sale nationwide.
There has also been an increase in govt interest in the wake of the Trump tax cuts. Although it won't be a dramatic increase, by any stretch of the imagination.

Ugh god the (((Black-Scholes))) formula is going to be the death of me this semester

Oh come on, basic economics

jk

That stuff hurts my head

I can't stand when #'s get too theoretical.

@ophiuchus what class is that? I actually know a little bit about that

Actuary hell

I’m retarded, so 1 sec

Have I set this up right

squareroot of 0.25 is 0.5

it looks good

I keep borking it somehow

Man that is some crazy jew wizardry.

d1 here is -0.3931, I’m just trying to work out how

Got -0.4323 last time I worked it out

Using a calculator?

Pardon my lack of experience.

Order of operations?

Has to be something with that

I got -0.34896 just now

Or how you are rounding the numbers

to the hundred thousandth place with each number?

So if I get it to (ln0.94+0.02)/0.12

It’s just ln of 0.94 right, not ln(0.94+0.02)

Now that is too big brain for me

Better?