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except that the loans can continue to be rolled over. sounds like perm financing to me. and they will stay in effect until they are no longer needed; if that means beyond next year, then that's what will happen. to believe anything else is delusional because if they aren't willing to stop them...

didn't see this until after I posted, but that sounds good. we'll use your excel data sheet and go from there.

I am in the process of teaching myself RM as well. I'll play around with your files so we are working with the same data. Won't be until after the weekend as I'll be out of town, but should be a good learning experience.

dt, not an expert here, but without even using Jerry's suggestion of using technical indicators as attributes, maybe normalizing the #s by taking the % change would lead to a more predictive model? just a suggestion to see what that model would do vs the model you first built and how much...

All this really is is that the fed gov't is going to take over sub-prime lending so that you and I are directly on-the-line instead of the banks (that would be bailed out anyway). Didn't we just get done with the great push the subprime/no down payment experiment?

see how well this type of thing has worked in the past... [B]http://www.crainsdetroit.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070604/SUB/706010372/-1/toc Subprime mortgage lending still bad for city Subprime mortgage lending decimated many of Detroit's older neighborhoods 40 years ago as an...

I am relatively sure there is an easy answer to this, but, after searching, I don't know what it is. within excel I want to simulate wins and losses separately based on the avg and std dev of both. for example: avg win: $300 std dev of wins: $200 avg loss: $200 std dev of losses...

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Exactly. Not to mention the reflexive action of increased values of comps (resulting from increased prices that were driven by cheap money, tax changes, etc.) for other homes being purchased. It's really all one big reflexive episode.

Yes! Let's save some money and let Iran get nukes. How about we just sell them a few and MAKE some money instead?!? Great plan!

Steve, I happen to have lawyers in my family as well, and I have found that they will always advise a client to keep their mouth shut if given a choice. So, I can buy that Praetorian is following their advice and probably the less said the better for him.

Michael Steinhardt

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

Just trying to get a comparable slope across different stocks, etc. Thanks for the ideas

Actually, I am trying to do it in excel. Any ideas? Thanks

I have been playing around with that. Looks like it may work, but I am not sure if it is mathematically sound. Thanks for the suggestion

Is there a way to normalize the slope of the linear regression of price data so that different units from different stocks/commodities can be compared? Thanks in advance, Jonathan

This might be some software that does (not sure if this is what you are referring to, though). The program is @risk "Define Uncertainty with Ease Choosing which @RISK distribution function to use for a cell containing uncertain values doesn't have to be complicated. @RISK comes with...

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Check out WCI 37 out of 50 developments in FL and "# of remaining tower sites" = 67 in FL not including 8 currently with units for sale. Hope this helps