Additional Resources

Tutorial on finance and data sources

· Chicago Board of Options Exchange Here you will find more information on financial derivatives, and lots of financial data

· Treasury Bills quotes

· The Motley Fool

· Market data from Bloomberg

· Historical stock data on Yahoo follow the link for historical data

o Kerry Back’s website

o Probability and Finance: It's Only a Game by Glenn Shafer and Vladimir Vovk

o Chapter 9 in the book above is about the Black-Scholes formula

Probability overview: Power Point Presentations

· Introduction to Probability

· Discrete Random Variables and their Distributions

· Continuous Random Variables

· Joint Probability Distributions

· Point estimation and Confidence intervals

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