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"Avon calling" -- calling for a younger crowd, overseas reps, and improved global operational efficiencies. Avon Products, the world's top direct seller of cosmetics and beauty-related items, is busy building a global brand and enticing more consumers to buy its products. Direct selling remains its modus operandi; sales also come from catalogs and a website. Its lineup includes cosmetics, fragrances, toiletries, apparel, home furnishings, and more. Avon boasts more than 6 million independent representatives worldwide. With sales and distribution operations in more than 100 countries, nearly 90% of sales come from outside the US. Avon is working to transform its business amid falling sales and profits.
Geographic Reach
Avon calls on households in some 65 countries worldwide. Indeed, Avon Products rings up just over 10% of its sales in the US. Latin America is a major market for the cosmetics company, accounting for nearly 50% of sales. (Brazil alone contributes 20%.) It also operates in Russia, China, the UK, and Germany, among other countries.
Avon sells beauty, fashion, and home goods, accounting for 71%, 16%, and 10% of sales, respectively. The company's core beauty business consists of color cosmetics, fragrances, skin care, and personal care. Fashion consists of fashion jewelry, watches, apparel, footwear, accessories, and children's products. Home consists of gift and decorative products, housewares, entertainment and leisure products, children's products, and nutritional products. It exited direct jewelry sales in mid-2013 with the sale of Silpada Designs.
Sales and Marketing
Avon Products recruits sales reps and customers largely through personal contact, including recommendation from current representatives and customers, and local market advertising. Sales promotions and sales development activities are directed at assisting reps. The company also relies on television and print advertising to sell its cosmetics and other products. The company reported advertising expenses of about $202 million, $251 million, and $309 million is 2013, 2012, and 2011, respectively.
Financial Performance
Avon has struggled to consistently grow sales, while dealing with a steep decline in net income. Its sales declined 7% in 2013 versus 2012, to just shy of $10 billion, and Avon reported a loss of $56.4 million. A decline in the number of active independent sales reps in 2013 compared with 2012, was partially offset by a 1% increase in average order size. Sales of beauty and fashion products declined, while sales of home products increased.
On a geographic basis, the decline in sales and profits was driven by lower sales in North America and the Asia-Pacific region, partially offset by improvements in Latin America, and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Growth in Latin America was led by Brazil and Venezuela, primarily due to inflationary pricing. In EMEA, growth was driven by South Africa, Russia, and Turkey, while revenue fell in the UK. The poor performance in Asia Pacific was due to weak sales in China, where Avon's business is predominantly retail, and operational challenges in the Philippines.
Cash flow from operations again declined in 2013 for the fourth consecutive year.
CEO Sheri McCoy, who joined Avon in 2012, is working to stabilize the business and return it to sustainable growth. To the end, the company has set a cost-savings target of $400 million by the end of 2015. To get there, Avon is reducing global headcount, including about 650 jobs by the end of 2014, and exiting the South Korea and Vietnam markets, as well as noncore businesses.
For a company known for its personal touch, Avon in recent years appears to have lost touch with its customers. The company's plans to use money freed up by its recent reorganization to fund investment in consumer research, product innovation, and advertising (for selling products and recruiting sales reps). In 2014 the company launched a redesigned website, which is a critical component of its digital strategy to enhance the social selling experience for Avon representatives and their customers.
Building on its growing business in Latin America, in 2014 the company and Greek skincare brand KORRES entered into a partnership there to develop, manufacture, and market KORRES products. Also in 2014, Avon stuck a deal with fragrance giant (and former hostile suitor) Coty under which Avon Brazil's 1.5 million independent sales reps will sell select Coty fragrances in Brazil.
Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
Avon in July 2013 sold its Silpada Designs (acquired in 2010) direct sales sterling silver jewelry business for $85 million in cash (plus an earn-out of up to $15 million if Silpada achieves specific earnings targets over two years.) The sale to Rhinestone Holdings, a newly-formed company created by Silpada's founders, allows Avon to focus on reviving its core business.
The struggling company became a takeover target in 2012 when its smaller rival Coty made an unsolicited $10.7 billion offer for the business, which Avon rejected.
Investment firm T. Rowe Price owns more than 10% of Avon Products' shares.
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You may feel sensitive about the opinions of others and find yourself seeking approval and acceptance today. While this can provide a boost to your confidence, it won't be a lasting change, and you will find yourself seeking more approval to get that emotional high again. If you instead take some time to build a stronger belief in yourself and your abilities today, you will feel more confident regardless of the feedback you receive from others. You might first begin by thinking about your past accomplishments. These could be achievements you've made during your lifetime, or even difficult situations you triumphed over. You can also give some thought to your talents and skills and acknowledge yourself for your unique gifts. After just a few minutes of these activities, you should feel proud and appreciative of your ability to excel in any situation.
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Taking your pen to hand – or more often keyboard, in these times – is not always a simple undertaking. That's not to say writing is bothersome. No, rather the opposite. Writing is wonderful, awesome, enchanting, and a hundred other things. The problem then is that there are too many distractions. Loud noises, flashing lights….not just outside of your window, but on your computer as well.
Perhaps you have better concentration than I do, but for me my best writing happens in a comfortable, reliable and distraction-free place. If you want to, as Neil Gaiman said, "Make Good Art". Make yourself a beverage, find comfortable seating and open up a decent writing tool.
Maybe you've already encountered your own diamond in the desert. As we well know, there's no shortage of great Mac apps. But if you're using an office suite or notepad application to spin sentences (as opposed to writing reports), you're definitely missing something out. Allow me to introduce you to Byword, a beautiful, simplistic writing tool.
Byword ($9.99)
The Byword writing app is a text editor available for Mac OS X and iOS. In this article, we'll mostly be focusing on the desktop client. What you should know starting out is that Byword is no traditional office text editor or notepad application. Rather, it's a very simplistic rich text and markdown editor, intended to be completely (or as much as possible) distraction-free.
It's not just a prettier alternative to TextEdit, though. Byword is completed with a variety of features that assist you while you're writing your next novel, article or literary doodle. It's a simple package, all in all, but very rich in usability. Add in other techniques to help you focus and stay productive for a killer combination.
Rich Formatting Versus Markdown
By default, Byword will function as a markdown editor, similar to FountainPen which was previously reviewed on MakeUseOf. In case you're wondering, Markdown is a way to impose styling (for example, bold text or headers) on a document in plain text, all without hindering reading the document in its current form.
Byword provides a guide to pick up on its own MultiMarkdown formatting. The guide itself was, in fact, written in MultiMarkdown in Byword.
If markdown editors are not your cup of tea, don't worry. You'll be able to switch to rich text formatting in the settings. These formatting options are a far cry from what you'd find in most rich text environments, but Byword hopes to offer what you really only need to structure your writing.
This covers three different text sizes, the usual bold, italic underlining, alignment, bullet lists and highlights. A nice finish is the formatting pop-over, which is activated by pressing command+T, and lets you stylize currently selected text.
Fullscreen Mode
One of the first things you do when you don't want to be distracted is close your door. The analogous action on your computer is to put your application in full-screen. Byword can be put full screen by pressing the Command and Enter keys on your keyboard.
Your text is centered on the screen and Byword's word and character counters are still visible on the bottom of your screen in a light grey. Apart from that, there's absolutely nothing. It may sound strange to describe it so, but it's a view that I absolutely love. Especially when you switch the color profile from white to black in the application settings, as you can see in the screenshot above.
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Another two cool features that Byword adds to the mix are line and paragraph focus. The idea of paragraph focus is simple: the paragraph you're working in looks normal while the rest of the document is greyed out. Not the best idea for documents where you need overview at all times, but good for almost any other scenario.
Line focus is similar, only the current line is spared instead of the entire paragraph.
Typewriter mode offers another novel way to keep your focus on the text you're currently working on. Not through shading, though, but through placement. Like the typewriters of old, this mode puts the line you're working on in the vertical center of your screen. Start typing somewhere else, and it readjusts. Not only is this a great way to keep focus, it also does a lot to prevent eye fatigue.
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La Bique
Charming house in beautiful setting
Sleeps 14 (7 bedrooms)
Property description
Set amongst fruit orchards and sunflowers on the slopes overlooking the Lot Valley, this charming property is close to the mediaeval village of Clairac, with its restaurants, market and shopping and within a short drive of some of the regions most picturesque bastides.
A farm since records began, La Bique was divided in two in the late 1960s and the main house was carefully renovated by a French/American owner who retained many of the original features seen here today.
The spacious and tastefully furnished interior is designed to comfortably accommodate 12 to 14 guests, whilst the beautiful terraces, gardens and pool complete the idyllic French summer experience.
The Garden: The terraced pool sits in a subtly landscaped acre of lawns, cypress, olive, lavender, rosemary, vines, wild flowers and woodland, which from Spring to Autumn is a riot of colour and scent.
A secluded walled garden to one side of the house has access from the kitchen and is the perfect spot for al fresco dining, be it a casual breakfast or dinner for all. Below this the pool shimmers invitingly and another terrace, accessed by a series of French windows, runs the width of the house, offering views over the garden and the valley below.
To the other side of the house lies a small lawn, sheltered by woodland on one side and an old tobacco drying barn on another, which stands as a reminder of La Biques history. A downstairs bedroom has French windows opening onto this secluded part of the garden.
La Biques outdoor furniture tastefully enhances the open air experience, be it dining on the terrace, stargazing on a lounger by the pool, or simply reading a book in the shade of a tree.
The House: The spacious interior is cool, airy and light and although traditional in appearance is modern in practicality. Oak beams prevail throughout, with a degree of exposed stonework and floors of oak and terracotta. Windows and doors are large to allow summer breezes to waft through the house and the furniture is an eclectic and tasteful mix of antique and contemporary.
The kitchen is equipped for even the most demanding of chefs and our dining room comfortably sits 14 around a single refectory table.
Guest book: Upon completing the balance of payment we will mail you our guide book so that you can familiarise yourself with the house and surrounding region and start to plan your holiday. The book includes details of places of interest, market days, activities and restaurants.
Accommodation description
All bedrooms are spacious, with ample storage in wardrobes, cupboards and chests of drawers. They are simply decorated with soft lighting, comfortable beds and crisp white linen.
We have two travel cots for babies and toddlers which can be erected in any of the bedrooms but please bring your own linen for them.
Bedroom 1 :
1 Double Bed
Bedroom 2 :
1 Double Bed
Bedroom 3 :
1 Double Bed
Bedroom 4 :
1 Double Bed
Bedroom 5 :
1 Sofa bed/Futon
Bedroom 6 :
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Bedroom 7 :
2 Single Bed
Bathroom 2 :
Shower Enclosure, Bidet, Toilet
Bathroom 1 :
Toilet, Bath with Shower, Bidet
Bathroom 3 :
Shower Enclosure
Bathroom 4 :
Kitchen, Dishes & Utensils, Pantry Items, Blender, Dishwasher, Refrigerator, Freezer, Hob, Oven, Microwave, Grill, Cooking Utensils, Coffee Maker, Toaster
Books, Books - Fiction / Non-fiction, Books for Kids, Table Football, Game Room, Games, Games for Kids, Ping Pong Table, Video Library, DVD Player, Television, Radio, Stereo, CD Player
Barbecue, Garden, Parking.
Hob/Stove, Oven, Fridge, Fridge/Freezer, Microwave, Dishwasher, Washing Machine, Iron.
TV, Telephone, Central Heating, Internet Access, High Chair.
Events Allowed, Long-term Renters Welcome, suitable for elderly or infirm, children welcome, pets considered
This property has the following outside: Bicycles, Garden, Terrace, Balcony, Deck Chairs, Beach Towels, Patio, veranda, Barbecue, Barbecue, Child's Swing. There are 22 garden chair(s) 12 beach chair(s) available.
Important notes on accommodation
As well as the facilities mentioned above, we have a boule court under the shade of a willow, a games room in the barn with table tennis table and a selection of board games.
Rental Basis: Per property
Rental rates quoted in:Euros
Rate Period | Nightly | Weekend Night | Weekend | Weekly | Monthly | Event | Minimum Stay |
Spring Mar 28 - May 29, 2015 |
€400 | €2000 | 3 nights | ||||
Early Summer May 30 - Jun 26, 2015 |
€500 | €2500 | 3 nights | ||||
High Summer Jun 27 - Aug 28, 2015 |
€600 | €3000 | 3 nights | ||||
Late Summer Aug 29 - Sep 25, 2015 |
€400 | €2000 | 3 nights |
Additional information about rental rates
Farmhouse in Marmande area, Aquitaine
About the area
Golf is available near this property.
Nearest golf: , 10 Kilometres
How to get there
Car necessary
Nearest AIRPORT - Bergerac: 70 Kilometres
Nearest FERRY - St Malo: 647 Kilometres
Nearest TRAIN - Tonneins: 9 Kilometres
Nearest MOTORWAY - Aiguillon Jct 6 on A62: 14 Kilometres
Nearest BEACH - beach: 174 Kilometres
Nearest BARPUB - : 2 Kilometres
Nearest GOLF - : 10 Kilometres
Nearest RESTAURANT - : 2 Kilometres
Further Details
Location Information: Clairac is a mediaeval town situated on the River Lot in the heart of Lot et Garonne. La Bique is two kilometres outside town so it is close enough for a brisk morning bread walk or a healthy stroll to one of its excellent restaurants for lunch. The region is well known for its duck, goose and fois gras but we are also in the heart of plum country with the world famous Pruneau dAgen the local delicacy. Several of Lot et Garonnes forty bastides are visible on the ridges to either side of the Lot Valley. These fortified hilltop towns were built just before or during the Hundred Years War, between 1222 and 1307. They are all worth a visit for the architecture and views alone but many have superb restaurants and great markets. With its rolling hills and valleys, the countryside here has been compared to that of Tuscany. Mediaeval villages, fantastic views, quiet shaded roads, fields of sunflowers, fruit orchards and rivers will leave you needing no excuse to get out.
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Send an enquiry to the owner for booking or further information
Property Ref FR10319
Contact Name:
Andrew Cawte
+852 91225288
8 hours ahead of GMT
Always call the owner on the telephone number displayed before proceeding with payment.
If no telephone number is listed, please contact us.
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Originally Posted by MommyMine
I have to say I have a hard time believing stories like this. Was he always such a man of low character? What posessed you to have three kids with him?!
... even that story about guys who forgoe promotions just to avoid cs increases- I just don't buy it. Cs is ONLY 20% of salary so you still get 60% more! It just doesn't make sense in any rational cost benifit analysis. I have certainly seen and heard peopel say "hey it is more work, it messes up my home/life balance and hey it will all go to cs and taxes so why take the promotion" but that to me is really them making the call on other reasons...if they wanted the promotion they would take it despite taxes and cs increases. .... |
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Wow Mommymine I wish we lived where you live. Here every time my DH gets a check they take 65% of it YES I said 65%:.
Originally Posted by MommyMine
there has to be more to that story like 12 kids or he owes back support or they consider him voluntarily underemployed.
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So again as you can see it is all frustrating...I wish I could blink and be over the fighting for money.....It's just not that easy....
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I really do understand it is best to let it go. I really do, but it is soooo hard when I know he is just doing this to make me angry. ...
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I am a sahm and it sucks being a sahp with prior kids to support. But I can't have too much sympathy for your plight. I would say he is voluntarily unemployed and we knew in our house that it wasn't an option for dh to be the sahp since he had a prior cs obligation to fulfill.
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Dh's potential income would NEVER support the 3 of us. With or without the support arrangement.
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Bruce Lindeman-TByte: You need to read the content at Rational Response.
Your first cited study is 111 people, that's all that needs to be said about that. Your second citation used the same bloody personal correspondence stats that I mentioned previously. Going to show how little that university values integrity...
The stats that supposedly demonstrate that .2% of atheists supposedly come from this 1997 document. Interestingly, there is no mention of religion in that exhaustive report...
This is what we know about where that .2% comes from:
"The data came from Denise Golumbaski, who was a Research Analyst for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The data was compiled from up-to-the-day figures on March 5th, 1997. (Note that as of the year 1999, Analyst Golumbaski is no longer working for the Federal Bureau of Prisons; I had telephoned Analyst Golumbaski to request the latest figures, and was told by another analyst that Golumbaski was no longer employed there.) The data was requested by Mr. Rod Swift, who passed it on to me for my web site. I later called the Federal Bureau of Prisons and confirmed that the data did in fact come from their database."
So that student paper and other propagandists are basing their stats on hearsay and personal correspondence. There is simply no solid evidence to back up the claim that there are less atheists in prisons. And no, 111 interviewees does not constitute evidence.
You can continue to make personal attacks all you want, that don't change a thing about your being in error.
I'm really ticked off now…..BIG TIME!
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Soderbergh was born in 1961 and so grew up with the shows of what is generally regarded, in both the US and UK, as the first golden age, which stretched from the early 1960s to around the mid-80s. Drama – the genre on which Soderbergh was commenting – from this era tends to dominate polls of TV's Greatest Ever Shows: whether The Prisoner, Edge of Darkness and The Jewel in the Crown in Britain or NYPD Blue, Columbo and Star Trek in America.
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Those last two shows were produced by the pioneering American cable network HBO, a fact that has some significance to Soderbergh's remarks. The press conference at which he bigged-up the small-screen was part of the promotion for Behind the Candelabra, his Liberace biopic produced by HBO films. Soderbergh's film, with Michael Douglas as the sexually secretive entertainer, was refused backing by major studios before he benefited from HBO's decision to extend to film the license it brought to TV: supporting projects that the US TV networks regarded as likely to frighten the audience, advertisers and regulators.
The second golden age of American TV was built on a new funding model, led by HBO and taken up by AMC (Breaking Bad, Mad Men) and Showtime (Dexter, Homeland, The Big C): subscription channels that shaped a creative space similar to American independent cinema – allowing subject-matter, language and action that the ancient studios would have cut – but with a more fixed supply of funding and audiences.
The complication of Soderbergh's stance is that he still seemingly prefers Behind the Candelabra to have a Cannes entry and cinematic release; just as the Channel 4-supported work of Michael Winterbottom, such as Everyday and The Look of Love, tends to have a movie-theatre release before its TV premiere. This suggests a residual snobbery among directors.
But what both Soderbergh and Winterbottom, who are very similar in being restless experimentalists drawn to different structures and genres, have seen in TV is its narrative flexibility. Their made-for-TV shows – Soderbergh's K Street and Unscripted, Winterbottom's The Trip and Family – have luxuriated in the time and space that a serial narrative allows.
In that context, it's slightly odd that Soderbergh commends TV for those who want their stories "narrow and deep". Because the key quality of TV fiction is length. Television gives actors, writers and directors the chance to dramatise an element that has always proved infuriatingly elusive to movie directors and novelists: the passage of time.
Plots such as Breaking Bad and The Big C, in which a diagnosis of cancer changes the lives of the characters, would be simply glib in a cinema film that needed to resolve the crisis inside two hours; similarly, The Sopranos and The West Wing already more or less existed as movies (Goodfellas and The American President respectively), but TV was able to go far deeper by giving Martin Sheen and James Gandolfini around 100 hours to portray the impact of politics and criminality on the bodies and minds of their characters. A factor common to most of the shows of both the first and second golden ages of TV is that they played out over multiple episodes or series.
As it happens, neither of Soderbergh's TV dramas made it to a second run and, if his Cannes compliment suggests a hunger to work further in the medium, he may have come to the table too late. The British producer Tony Garnett, responsible for drama from Cathy Come Home to This Life, told me in a recent interview that, if he were starting now, he would not go into the TV industry at all, but turn to online. And, notoriously, the most talked-about TV fiction this year – Kevin Spacey's remake of House of Cards – was released by Netflix online rather than on TV.
It remains terrifyingly unclear, though, how the economics of online television might work. Soderbergh's second golden age may already be over.


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You may want to look at Chapter 5 - "The Quest for the Option Formula" from the Derivatives. The book is available online for free and it has a very descent review of approaches that were used 20-30 years before the Black-Scholes-Merton equation.
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Black-Scholes made it possible for an idiot with a calculator to imagine that he was smart enough to judge the value of options ... it has always been possible to determine option value -- ...
I think this slightly misses the point. Before Black-Scholes options prices were set entirely by human judgement, just like prices in many other markets are set, which is why this model was so important. Peter Bernstein has a good recollection of this kind of behavior in "Capital Ideas".
There is a missing link to early options pricing literature which had been overlooked. Put-call parity along with static delta hedging were understood in actionable detail well before BSM and trading and risk management were accomplished through heuristic methods which indeed continued to be used after BSM.
Would point to "Why we Have Never Used the ...
Options and futures were common instruments in France at the end of the 19th century. Louis Bachelier, in his 1900 thesis, derives the price of a European option when the underlying asset is normally distributed. Interestingly, he seems to have some strong opinions about mathematical finance in his introduction to his thesis:
The calculus of ...
To add on to what others have said: the formula still does not provide a price -- just a way to calculate "implied" volatility. The BSM calculates a hypothetical value (using binary branchings as the storytelling tool) and this hypothetical merely provides a reference for this common "what-if" question.
The only sense in which "arbitrage free" entered the ...
I dusted off my oldest option theory books and searched the indexes for "vega". The oldest reference I found was in Option Volatility and Pricing Strategies (1st ed.) by Sheldon Natenberg, copyright 1988. When discussing the sensitivity of prices to volatility (p. 132), he says,
[T]here is no single commonly accepted
term for this number. It is ...
You find lots of info in part 3 "(3. Myth 1: people did not properly "price" options before the Black–Scholes–Merton theory)" of this paper:
"Option traders use (very) sophisticated heuristics, never the Black–Scholes–Merton formula": http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167268110001927
(a free preprint can be found here Page 217)
Another source ...
Ed Thorp is of the opinion that he could price options properly before Fischer and Myron:
link here (doc)
Sounds like he was using a risk-neutral approach
You can get quite a bit of structured data for free from the SEC's Edgar system via XML:
Even the older stuff that's not xml based, is fairly readily parsable.
Another source that is easier to deal with, but not free, and possibly expensive, is CapitalIQ (where Yahoo Finance gets their data ...
I have no reference, but it's largely phonetic.
Must variables in econ/finance are Greek versions English letter you'd want to use. $\omega$ for weight, $\rho$ for rate, $\epsilon$ for error, and so.
Vega is partial derivative of price with respect to V olatility. But there's no Greek letter for V. Vega sounds kind of Greek.
The Early History of Option Contracts
Haven't read this so can't vouch for whether they get into etymology.
This chapter discusses the history of option contracts from ancient times until the appearance of
Theorie der Prämiengeschäfte by Vincenz Bronzin in 1908. The history examines the use of
contracts with option features prior to the ...
If you're looking for free data, I've heard this question many times asked to derivatives professors at the end of a lesson. They answered was most of the time to step by their offices so that they could give data they imported from the university data provider. So apparently, if even academy has to do it this way, I'd be surprised if you found.
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what you are trying to do is not recommended; especially in FX market.
here is why:
- The spread changes depending on time of day and trading venue.
- FX market is based on quotes. What you see is not what you get. This also depends on the broker you are using.
- FX market changes all the time; hence the spread today; may be different than same day last ...
One of the largest misconceptions of derivatives is that they destroy wealth. In fact, derivatives cannot destroy wealth by their construction, rather, they merely transfer wealth from one party to another. This is because generally, derivatives are voluntary contracts between two parties, where one side's gain exactly matches the other's loss.
The ...
Although I think your question will be flagged for "basic knowledge" you can find free sources for this data including Yahoo Finance, Quandl. Commercial data vendors also provide this information.
However, you really need to define what sort of data you are trying to find. Spot prices (for physical delivery), spot prices (for cash settled) or futures data ...
The specific procedure depends on details of the problem such as
What is the objective function? Sharpe ratio? Terminal wealth?
What is the model of transaction costs?
What is the data resolution? (If it's very high the problem may become challenging computationally).
There are many papers, e.g. this one, that solve various problems of this sort. These ...
you can smooth your data and then find the zeros of the slope of the smoothed data. You can adjust for the costs with the degree of smoothing.
I think what you're trying to do is to construct a portfolio from inside out, i.e. picking stocks based on idiosyncratic factors. I have never heard anyone (within the industry) succeed with this, and, to my knowledge, the literature in this direction is pretty slim.
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