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An Option with a Negative Value?

2006-07-28 08:38:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...negative value Conceptually, an option with a negative value does not make sense. A negative value means that the option seller (writer) pays the option buyer. This results into a "free lunch" as described by one of the posters (waiter222). The option buyer will always win out in this case. He can exercise and make money when "in-the-money"....
 
Tags: option, negative option, option seller, option writer sells, option buyer, option position, negative, position, writer
 
 
 
 
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An Option with a Negative Implied Volatility?

2006-08-14 06:27:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...negative value . This time, it was asked in Wilmott if there are real-life cases where options have negative implied vols Here's my take on the subject matter Since implied volatilities are derived values, based on observed market parameters and a model or formula, it is indeed possible to have negative results. But does it make sense?...
 
Tags: negative, negative results, market, market parameters, volatility measure, model, subject matter, option, arbitrage opportunity
 
 
 
 
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HACKED BY THE RBN!

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2008-04-01 15:52:09 by HASH0x8b24a94 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...negative attitude regarding the RBN's operational activities. A negative attitude that's been nailing down the RBN's cyber coffin as early 2007, prompting us to hire extra personel, thereby increasing our operational costs Hijacked readers of this blog, executing the harmless to a VMware backed up PC setup files below, will not just...
 
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Your Turn At The Bar Again? Security Costs in a Pay Per Drink Cloud

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2008-05-01 20:55:26 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...negative side, poor design or implementation are problems only the vendor can address. Site specific issues arise through all kinds of madness - customers failing to read the label and provision properly, insufficiently trained people making poor configuration choices or simply relying on the default settings in a very non-default...
 
Tags: security costs, costs, runtime security costs, security runtime costs, security, security tool, security tool inefficiency, security tools plays, plays
 
 
 
 
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Why is there a need for a download adware spyware removal?

2007-08-01 19:27:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...negative manner Sometimes the negative becomes so popular that more and more people will choose to take part in these bad actions. The evil genius behind spyware is a traitor to all its victims who totally unaware of its existence that is not until it messes up a seemingly functional system. There is nothing right at all with collecting...
 
Tags: adware, adware spyware removal, spyware, programs, programs essential, bogus programs, office duties, office, system
 
 
 
 
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How to Sell Security

2008-05-26 05:57:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...negative sell One solution is to stoke fear. Fear is a primal emotion, far older than our ability to calculate trade-offs. And when people are truly scared, they're willing to do almost anything to make that feeling go away; lots of other psychological research supports that. Any burglar alarm salesman will tell you that people buy only after...
 
Tags: security, loss, risky loss, risky larger loss, gain, risky larger gain, security purchase, directly, security directly
 
 
 
 
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Smart Cards and Risk

2007-10-29 00:00:00 by Sean Kline in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...negative connotation, such as the chance of suffering some type of loss or damage. From a finance perspective, risk is perhaps a more neutral term in that with increased risks (there is a relationship to volatility), one expects a greater return. This has relevance in information-centric security as well
 
Tags: risk, neutral term, finance perspective, negative connotation, volatility, damage, relationship, emc, focus
 
 
 
 
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Bogus Microsoft sweepstakes emails

2007-08-19 22:35:48 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...negative? One could interpret the subject line this way: "Congratulations! You've won the privilege of sending 500,000 pounds to Microsoft! Warm up your check book The email insists that you contact Mr. Peter Garry, Microsoft's "fiduciary agent." There are some capitalization errors in this particular sentence There are several...
 
Tags: microsoft sweepstakes, sweepstakes, microsoft, email, email insists, domain, american domain, subject line, emails
 
 
 
 
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The Shark3 Malware is in the Wild

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2008-01-31 19:10:57 by HASH0x8b23a0c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...negative publicity of the malware that's actually promotd as a RAT, the authors supposedly abondoned the malware, they seem to have logically resumed its development. And so, the Shark3 malware is continuing its development What's new? Anti-debugger capabilities in particural against - VmWare, Norman Sandbox, Sandboxie, VirtualPC, Symantec...
 
Tags: malware, malware tools, built-in spyware functionaly, script kiddies, shark, aggressive service, negative publicity, rat, authors supposedly
 
 
 
 
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Nobody Is That Dumb ... Oh, Wait IX

2008-02-05 07:44:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -