Equities

Overview

Equities represent an ownership share of a company, and are regulated by Securities Law. Equities are structured legally such that the shareholders own a proportionate share of a company, however, they are personally shielded from the companies liabilities.

Equity Analytics

• Technical Analysis : the traditional analysis of stock traders going back to the time of Charles Dow which seeks to use patterns in stock charts to forecast future trends.
• Equity Quantitative Analysis : equity analysis is similar to the analysis of many other asset types that follow the same mathematical structure, the geometric brownian motion. This includes standard time series analyis (an technical analyis), statistical factor analysis, and portfolio analysis.

Topics

• Equity Strategies - discusses strategies that a particular to equity assets
• Sectors - common categorizations of firms by the type of product or service.
• Equity Price Data is more complex and requires more care than most other types of financial price data.