FNM Also Suspends Foreclosures Thru January
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FRE Suspends All Foreclosures, Evictions of Occupied Homes Thru January 9, 2009
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S&P/TSX Down 765 Points, a 9% Decline to 7724 at Close
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10yr Yield Drops to 3.05% (Lowest Ever)
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Dell Beats in Q3 - 37 Cents/Share vs. 31 Estimated
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BoNY Cutting 4% (1,800 Jobs)
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Citi: Strong Capital Position, Liquidity --CNBC
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TSY - no other funds in TSY's temporary money mkt guarantee program rec'd a similar liquidation notice from the SEC
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TSY's Exchange Stabilization Fund will buy any remaining securities in The Reserve Fund at amortized cost
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TSY is helping The Reserve Fund to ensure "order and timely" liquidation
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Office of Thrift Supervision says 225 banks seeking funds are pending Agency Review
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OTS says 1/3 of Thrift Banks have sought bailout funds
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TSY - The Reserve Fund's securities are s/t Gov't paper and FNM, FRE securities
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TSY will serve as 'buyer of last resort' for The Reserve Fund's securities
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30yr Yield Drops to 3.61% (Lowest Ever) on Biggest Day Drop Since Sep-01
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TSY had taken The Reserve Fund into the Temporary Guarantee for Money Market Funds program
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TSY says they agree to help liquidate fund due to "extraordinary and unique" circumstances
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TSY agrees to help liquidate The Reserve Fund's U.S. Gov't Fund
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Long Bond Up 5 Handles in Panic-Buying
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S&P Down 5.1% to 765, Lowest Since Apr-97
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This issue of Automated Trader marks the launch of a new set of tradability statistics called Alphability. Andy Webb outlines some examples of their construction and their application as tools to expedite the development of automated and algorithmic trading models.

αlphability

Alphability statistics are intended to provide an indication of the relative ease of capturing alpha from specific markets and time frames using generic categories of trading model. The two categories presented here are trend and reversal strategies. (Metrics and a database of matching engine rules for scalping and other ‘order book’ type strategies will be added later.)

In addition to the metrics published in these pages, more comprehensive Alphability statistics, including a larger range of time frames and volatility weighted scores, will shortly be available at www.automatedtrader.net. Automated Trader subscribers will also be able to download historical datasets from there.

Why?

The main motivation for introducing Alphability is the growing need among market practitioners to develop more models and to develop them faster. The objective is that Alphability metrics should assist by guiding practitioners towards the optimum marriage of market/time frame characteristics and model type. ...

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