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Finance: What is Alpha?
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What is Alpha? Alpha is an investing term that describes the success of an investment. It looks at the investment’s ability to beat beta (or mark...

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Finance: What Does a Financial Analyst Do?
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What does a financial analyst do? Financial analysts research the market and recommend investments. There are quite a few licenses required to be a...

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Finance: What is a Random Walk hypothesis?
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The random walk hypothesis is a financial theory that suggests the market is unpredictable, and can't be beaten. (Cough-cough-B.S.)

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Finance: What are Weighted Averages and Expected Values? 13 Views


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What are Weighted Averages and Expected Values? Weighted averages are averages calculated to account for the number of changes that a variable, such as price, may have, especially when the same asset may have been added to the portfolio in varying quantities and price costs over time for a cumulative total. Expected Values is an anticipated prediction of an asset’s value over a specified time that is calculated as the total of possible results times their statistical probability.

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