Win prizes for forum participation!!

[Nicole Seaman]

It is time to announce our winners for this week! Thank you to everyone who participated!

The winners are:

@Roshan Ramdas and @superpocoyo

Congratulations to our winners! Please email me at nicole@bionicturtle.com, reply to this post or start a conversation with me here on the forum to let me know if you would like to redeem your prize now or let it accrue.

Prizes:

• $15 iTunes gift card (US only)
• $15 Amazon gift card
• $15 Starbucks gift card

 

[superpocoyo]

Thanks, Nicole!

I would like it accrued, until I pass the FRM exams

Melody

 

[Nicole Seaman]

It is time to announce our winners for this week! Thank you all for your participation in the forums!!

The winners are: @Aenny and @HALCOLM1

Congratulations to our winners! Please email me at nicole@bionicturtle.com, reply to this post or start a conversation with me here on the forum to let me know if you would like to redeem your prize now or let it accrue.

Prizes:

• $15 iTunes gift card (US only)
• $15 Amazon gift card
• $15 Starbucks gift card

 

[Aenny]

Thank you Nicole,

I would like to accrue

 

[Nicole Seaman]

It is time to announce our winners for this week! Thank you to everyone who participated!

The winners are: @Aenny and @Roshan Ramdas

Congratulations to our winners! Please email me at nicole@bionicturtle.com, reply to this post or start a conversation with me here on the forum to let me know if you would like to redeem your prize now or let it accrue.

Prizes:

• $15 iTunes gift card (US only)
• $15 Amazon gift card
• $15 Starbucks gift card

 

[Aenny]

Hi Nicole,

if it weren't be called suicide strategy, i would say : "Double or nothing" - .

No seriously, let it accrue. Thanks

 

[David Harper CFA FRM]

Here are the entries, only so far, for this week's (the week of 9/20 to 9/26 which draws two winners on Friday the 26th):

• @capri.g.c for a helpful CAPM-related insight (the difference between returns that are normal and investors who only care [utility function] about the first two distributional moments) https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/...derivation-capm-elton-gruber.5253/#post-31311
• @hamu4ok for sharing a graphic which somehow lists virtually all of the assigned exotics on one slide @ https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/hull-exotic-options.7478/#post-31349
• @Aenny for taking the time to make several corrections to our completely messed up Hull 6.11 Q&A @ https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/hull-06-11.3777/#post-31353
• 9/23 Fabian Moa [Facebook visitor] here on the FB page for correct answer to *fun* "question: If the price of a non-dividend-paying stock is $100 while the risk-free rate is 4%, at what strike price will the value of a European CALL exactly equal a European PUT with the same maturity of one year? Don't peek at the answer, you can figure it out yourself!
  
• 9/24 @Roshan Ramdas for showing that Malz' endogenous LVaR can be added to (is compatible with) Dowd's exogenous LVaR at https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/p2-t7-303-liquidity-and-leverage-malz.6863/#post-31379
• 9/24 Shakti Singh Rathore for a variation on the FB question
• 9/24 @Aenny for spotting the currency typo @ https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/hull-07-05.3785/#post-31366

 

[Nicole Seaman]

Great participation in the forum this week!!

Our winners are: @Aenny and @hamu4ok

Congratulations to our winners! Please email me at nicole@bionicturtle.com, reply to this post or start a conversation with me here on the forum to let me know if you would like to redeem your prize now or let it accrue.

Prizes:

• $15 iTunes gift card (US only)
• $15 Amazon gift card
• $15 Starbucks gift card

 

[hamu4ok]

thanks alot. I would like to accrue it till Nov exams (I hope)

 

[Aenny]

thank you nicole, I would like to accrue it also

 

[David Harper CFA FRM]

Here are the entries, only so far, for this week's (the week of 9/27 to 10/3 which draws two winners on Friday the 3rd):

• Paul Zevallos on the FB page for responding to this question
• Uzi (@monsieuruzairo3 ) for helping to highlight the confusing difference between VaR confidence and backtest confidence at https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/backtesting-var-calculations.8032/#post-31507
• @Em for helpful customer-service oriented assist (thank you!) at https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/reading-notes-for-p2t8.8040/#post-31506
• @Roshan Ramdas for identifying a weakness in ES/coherent question at https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/...ating-coherent-risk-measures.3657/#post-31472
• @Roshan Ramdas again for finding a mistake in CVaR answer at https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/p2-t6-305-credit-value-at-risk-cvar.6816/#post-31498
• @Aenny for attention to detail on discount rate calculations (it helps to have our math stress-tested!) at https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/...es-extracted-from-swap-rates.6881/#post-31509

 

[Nicole Seaman]

Thank you for all of your participation in the forum this week!

Our winners for this week's participation contest are: @Em and @Roshan Ramdas

Congratulations to our winners! Please email me at nicole@bionicturtle.com, reply to this post or start a conversation with me here on the forum to let me know if you would like to redeem your prize now or let it accrue.

Prizes:

• $15 iTunes gift card (US only)
• $15 Amazon gift card
• $15 Starbucks gift card

 

[Em]

Thank you Nicole,

I would like to accrue it

 

[David Harper CFA FRM]

Here are the entries, only so far, for this week's (the week of 10/4 to 10/10 which draws two winners on Friday the 10th):

• @murrayf for the TI BA II+ tutorial share @ https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/ti-ba-ii-plus-tutorial.8051/
• @m123mikmik for catching the typo at https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/...ametric-volatility-estimates.7167/#post-31541
• @southeuro for the error not reverted to PDF at https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/volatility-smile.4563/#post-31536
• @HALCOLM1 for the EAGLE EYE that noticed "the uniform variable in the question be .2420 instead of .2429" at https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/...ulation-and-gbm-topic-review.7274/#post-31550
• @Nicole Manley for the great help at https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/garp-frm-exam-questions.7965/#post-31565 sadly she is not eligible but I think she enjoys helping intrinsically
• @southeuro again for a brave (heroic?) attempt to explain the intuition behind the relationship between DV01 and premium/par/discount bond, do you buy it? at https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/duration-question-garp-practice-2008-q-15.810/#post-31572

 

[Nicole Seaman]

Thank you for all of your forum participation this week!!

Our winners are @m123mikmik and @HALCOLM1

Congratulations to our winners! Please email me at nicole@bionicturtle.com, reply to this post or start a conversation with me here on the forum to let me know if you would like to redeem your prize now or let it accrue.

Prizes:

• $15 iTunes gift card (US only)
• $15 Amazon gift card
• $15 Starbucks gift card

 

[David Harper CFA FRM]

Here are the entries, only so far, for this week's (the week of 10/11 to 10/17 which draws two winners on Friday the 17th):

• @capri.g.c for spotting the typo w.r.t. future value @ https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/...rry-and-normal-backwardation.4547/#post-31628
• @m123mikmik for identifying the typo in the credit migration matrix calculation @ https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/...it-ratings-and-credit-events.6255/#post-31641
• @Roshan Ramdas for a keen disagreement with GARP's market risk Q&A on the effective duration of an IO tranche @ https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/io-po-strip-effective-duration-query.8064/
• @southeuro for the reminder that there are (at least) two ways to estimate spread given default rate and LGD @ https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/...based-default-probability-pd.6235/#post-31679
• @Roshan Ramdas for reminding us about a revision that has not reverted to its PDF @ https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/...-credit-exposure-terminology.6191/#post-31682
• @hamu4ok for inventing a mnemonic device for exotics (I would not have thought this possible, this is very creative!) @ https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/hull-exotic-options.7478/#post-31687
• @hamu4ok for his incredible Basel infographic based on our slides, wow! See https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/basel-ii-market-risk-amendments-summary.8071/
• @alinafrmmaster for spotting a calculation typo @ https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/p1-t2-403-probabilities.7947/#post-31698

 

[Nicole Seaman]

Thank you for all of your forum participation this week!!

Our winners are @alinafrmmaster and @Roshan Ramdas

Congratulations to our winners! Please email me at nicole@bionicturtle.com, reply to this post or start a conversation with me here on the forum to let me know if you would like to redeem your prize now or let it accrue.

Prizes:

• $15 iTunes gift card (US only)
• $15 Amazon gift card
• $15 Starbucks gift card

 

[Nicole Seaman]

Here are the entries, only so far, for this week's (the week of 10/17 to 10/24 which draws two winners on Friday the 24th):

• hamu4ok for helping out user in forum: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/...d-start-compound-and-chooser.7607/#post-31757

• hamu4ok for helping out user in forum: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/p2-t6-307-hazard-rate-malz-section-7-2.6932/#post-31758

• m123mikmik for finding typo: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/p1-t2-406-distributions-ii.7966/#post-31727

• hamu4ok for creating helpful infographic: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/dowd-liquidity-lvar-var-summary-in-one-slide.8079/

• capri.g.c for finding typo: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/p1-t3-412-foreign-exchange-fx-risk.8049/#post-31752

• capri.g.c for finding typo: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/p1-t3-413-bonds-basic.8054/#post-31753

• HALCOLM1 for finding typo: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/p1-t3-411-stock-option-trades.8036/#post-31748

• hamu4ok for answering a user's question: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/var-calculation-short-doubt.8083/#post-31798

• Roshan Ramdas for helping to answer a user's question: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/tranching-numerical.8086/#post-31824

• Roshan Ramdas for helping to answer another user's question: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/...ssues-in-op-risk-cap-modeling.8090/#post-3184

• alinafrmmaster for finding typo: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/p1-t1-410-apt-and-multi-factor-models.7910/#post-31863

• capri.g.c for finding typo: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/p1-t4-414-option-greeks.8087/#post-31866

• Aenny for pointing out contradicting question: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/hull-04-18.3752/#post-31865

• alinafrmmaster for finding typo: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/threads/p1-t4-412-binomial.8080/#post-31858

• tosuhn for finding typo: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/...rest-rate-and-currency-swaps.8017/#post-31857

• tosuhn for pointing out another approach to question: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/...es-and-interest-rate-futures.8000/#post-31856

• Roshan Ramdas for finding mistake: https://www.bionicturtle.com/forum/...le-procyclical-amplification.4494/#post-31850

 

[Nicole Seaman]

We had great forum participation this past week!!!!

Our winners are @capri.g.c and @Aenny!!

Congratulations to our winners! Please email me at nicole@bionicturtle.com, reply to this post or start a conversation with me here on the forum to let me know if you would like to redeem your prize now or let it accrue.

Prizes:

• $15 iTunes gift card (US only)
• $15 Amazon gift card
• $15 Starbucks gift card

 

[capri.g.c]

Thank you Nicole!
I would like to accrue it until the next November exam (fingers crossed