Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Finance & Investment/Archive 1

SME Rating Agency of India

Can I request a few volunteers help me develop the article SME Rating Agency of India. It would be highly appreciated.

Massive Cleanup required

I will attempt to do some of this myself, but really the only way it can happen is if a large group of people do it.

1. There are a lot of duplicate articles which need to be merged: Modigliani-Miller theorem vs Capital structure irrelevance principle is a case in point. They either don't cover what they're supposed to in the title, or they cover exactly the same material.
2. Inter article links need to be much more strong, i will use my finance text book to push this point. While Corporate Finance is good, it really needs to feed better into other articles.
3. There needs to be way more graphs illustrating many of the concepts, especially in the Capital structure pages. I find the graphs greatly ease understanding. Unfortunately, i dont' really know how to do it myself, so if someone would offer to teach me, or else do it themself that would be great!

Thanks Suicup 10:42, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Things to do

What is the first step? Is it to fix the page List of finance topics --DrewWiki 14:37, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Finance Revamp

I am cutting and pasting a convo I had on Transhumanist's talk page because I think it works through most of the questions and allows for someone to see exactly what I am talking about

I saw that you had weighted in on the deletion decision for list of finance related topics and I am looking for a more experienced wikipedian than my self for guidance about a finance related issue.

I also agree the list should stay, but finance on wikipedia is in a terrible state, very un organized and haphazard. I am trying to fix this and have struggling for days to come up with a way to do this. This is what I have come up with:

Rework all finance related templates, and split them into two groups: Top layer topics, which will be templates on the right hand side (like Template:Finance sidebar), and Sub layer topics which would be listed on the bottom of the screen type templates (Template:Financial markets). The over arcing structure is taken partially from the list of financial topics but re-worked so that it makes more sense. The following would be the upper layor break down: user:drewwiki/sandbox1 Then each of the second row topics would have a template that goes one level futher, see user:drewwiki/sandbox2, user:drewwiki/sandbox3, user:drewwiki/sandbox3, user:drewwiki/sandbox4, user:drewwiki/sandbox7, user:drewwiki/sandbox6

After this, for the topics that have even more levels and sublevels, the system would switch to the bottom type template. Ie Template:Financial derivatives The Financial deriviates page would have the financial deriviatives subpages on the bottom and the Financial markets template on the right. This way a user could move within finance on the right and within financial derivitives on the bottom.

If I implement this, there would be lots of editing, lots of template creating and lots of time and energy, I want to make sure that this system makes sense. I would appreciate any advice or comments you would have. I tried to create a wiki project finance so I could ask them this type of question (Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance but there it was unable to really get going.

--DrewWiki 14:45, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

They look too much alike. Change that picture if possible so that the templates are easier to tell apart. Like a skyscraper for the corporate finance, etc. The Transhumanist 15:44, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that, yeah the images there were just for show, like a beta, but is the concept solid? --DrewWiki 16:15, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm browsing the finance section now, and your templates, to get a feel for the whole project. I should have an answer for you in less than 2 hours. The Transhumanist 16:35, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

You've got a financial markets template which goes on the right, and then there's another one named the same thing that goes on the bottom. Why 2 styles for the same template content? The Transhumanist 16:53, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Let me see if I have this straight: sandbox1 would only go on the article Finance? Then the main subtopics of finance (call these the 2nd tier) would each get their own sandbox, and each article that was a subtopic of the 2nd tier would also display the same sandbox as their 2nd tier parent? Do I have that right? The Transhumanist 17:06, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry I probubly was not clear when I wrote originally. The only thing I created was sandbox1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. All of those would be Right side Templates. Sandbox 1 lays out the section of the FINACE section as a whole( In my opinion, finance consists of: Financial Markets, Financial Market Participants, Corporate Finance, Personal Finance, Public Finance, Banks and Banking, and Regulation. Each of those section will have its sub right side template. These templates you see as sandbox 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (and then 7 and 8 later). They, essentially just show 1 level deeper. After this level, all sub levels would be of the bottom template type, (I havn't made any yet but they would look like the one I mentioned earlier, that one is currently existing). Here would be an example, for the page exchange traded derivatives, you would see on the right hand side the template that is The Financial markets, (user:drewwiki/sandbox2) then at the bottom of that page would be a template very similar to Template:Financial derivatives. Does that make more sense?--DrewWiki 17:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

So, the (right side) templates would each be for one article (of the same name), plus lists of that name as well. They would not be displayed on subtopic pages. That's not generally how we use templates here, but I'll reserve judgement until I've learned more about the bottom templates you envision. Tell me more about those please. The Transhumanist 17:42, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Sure, Let me build a few more, and a test page on my sandbox area, I'll get back to you tonight probably --DrewWiki 17:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually it took a lot less time than I thought to put together a mock up of the basic structure. Let me walk you through it.

Go to user:drewwiki/finance: This is the top level page on Finance, on the right you see the Finance sub topics. Imagine you clicked on Financial markets (from the template), it would look like this user:drewwiki/finance1 Notice that the template on the right is one level lower. Now image, from there you click on The Derivatives Market (in the template on the right) you would see User:Drewwiki/finance2 Notice on this page the template on the right leading you to the sections on the Financial market, and the fiance world in general, but at the bottom, you see the entire Derivatives world. Any page within the derivatives world would have BOTH of these templates thoughts?--DrewWiki 18:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Thus providing lateral and vertical navigation options. Extremely cool. My advice is to differentiate the side templates by giving each its own picture, and then as soon as you've done that, move forward: placing what you've created so far in the various articles (renaming the "sandboxes" to templates, of course), and developing them further in place so that readers may benefit immediately (as long as nobody objects). As you do so, update the list of templates at Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance, and provide instructions on how to apply them to the subject of finance as a whole on Wikipedia. So far, so good, and keep up the excellent work. The Transhumanist 00:36, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Cool, I'll start work now, I'ts going to take a while, and i'll stage it all so I can do it all at once when there done on my sandbox --DrewWiki 02:10, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

User template

Took the liberty of creating one. It looks like this:

This user is a member of WikiProject Finance & Investment.

I chose gold coins from Venice, as this was one of the first organized bourses. --Leifern 23:08, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Banner template

Started futzing around with it, but needs more work. See Template:WikiProject Finance. I really want to start adding these to all the articles that are included and also start rating them, at least for importance. --Leifern 23:31, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Templates - Objecting to their irrelevance in articles they are placed in

These templates that are popping up all over accounting and financial articles are just eye candy. How do they improve the article? Why should a corporate finance template be place in the accountancy article? Someone else placed an accounting template in the same article which I removed. There would now be two irrelevant templates in the article. There are link sections at the end of each article where required. These templates do not relate to the articles and are not turning wikipedia into something that looks nice but has irrelevant links and will confuse the reader with the enormous amounts of links which are not directly linked with the article. NilssonDenver 23:58, 7 February 2007 (UTC)NilssonDenver 23:35, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

The idea is to have both verticle and horizontal navigation abilities. So your interested in finance, specifically your interested int he bond market, so when you go to the bond market page you will see, in a template on the bottom all the articles pertaining to the bond market, but in addition, you can move vertically to any other market, or for that matter back to the top, to any other finance page. If you feel it would be best i'll take out accounting --DrewWiki 01:27, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

You are making assumptions that the links you make are relevant to the reader and the ones you leave out are irrelevant to the reader. How close or far an article is linked to another article is on a template is subjective. You could have a huge number of links and I feel these reduce the impact of the article. These navigation templates are dominating the article. The article should be the main attention of the reader anything else is secondary and should not distract from the article.

We have links in articles to other articles, we have links at the end of an article, we could then have multiple templates within an article, where does it stop. NilssonDenver 22:01, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I am not wedded to the format I am trying, and I am interested in your commments. I was trying to address a huge problem I saw within the finance related articles, in that there was no easy way to navigate through from one to the other keeping the whole structure in your mind. Maybe a portal is the best way to do this, but having links just in the article is not enough, IMOP. When I am reading about the stock exchange, I want to see where this relates to the whole world of finance. A year a go, before i was a contributing member of wikipedia, I looked up structured finance, and asset-backed securities, and was thoroughly confused by where they fit in finance, and what they were in general. Now that I have been doing these things professionally for a year, I wrote those articles, but I still wanted to fix the main issue i saw. I would be very interested in any ideas you have. I was not convinced this was the best way either, and that is why i consulted a more experienced wikipedian.

About templates dominating articles, the bottom templates definitely do not dominate the articles because they are at the bottom and people rarely scroll all the way down there, however if, because they have looked at other finance articles, know that it will be there and let them know what else is in finance, they will scroll down. About the side templates, These i dont' feel, dominate to too much of an extent, they give the reader perspective and I don't feel, hurt the aesthetic too much. But that is IMOP. Certainly not doing these templates would give me LOTS more time to fix up the articles. Can you please propose some alternatives that would give readers an idea of where a page fits within --DrewWiki 03:04, 9 February 2007 (UTC) finance.

PS would you like to join the wiki project finance?

What is the criteria for a "Finance" Article. My knowledge is on the Accounting area rather than finance. I will support any project that improves any section and will write and actively take part in any section I can offer help to.

The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Business_and_Economics is being relaunced and rather than set up a separate project, make this a project within the Business and Economics category. Also there is a push on now on the accounting section http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Business_and_Economics#Major_Overhaul as a project within the Business and Economics category. NilssonDenver 19:17, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I already categorized this project as party of the Business and Economics project, and you'll see that we're trying to minimize disruption to that area. I think we'd define "finance" for our purposes as "the commercial activity of providing funds and capital...among organizations, as opposed to finance in the broader sense. --Leifern 00:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Additional templates: Concepts in finance?

I'm wondering if we should have an additional template and structure covering concepts and theories in finance, ranging from simple time value of money articles all the way through to arbitrage topics. What do others think? --Leifern 23:36, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Sure can you map them out on the main page first? ALso, I need a lot of help implementing these templates and distributing them to all of the finance articles DrewWiki 20:18, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Topical structure of finance

I am uncomfortable with using templates as the primary means to provide topical structure to the finance area. I understand the need to get a handle on the various finance related articles, and I'm impressed by the hard work that has gone into creating these templates. However, I wonder if we can explore alternatives, particularly the use of summary articles and the category namespace.

We could provide a topical framework just as easily by

• associating articles with appropriate categories
• providing links to those categories in the see also section
• when relevant, writing summary articles for high level subject areas

Among my concerns:

• Usability. Templates take up a lot of precious screen real estate and crowd out other images. This presents a difficulty to some readers (mobile) and to article editors. If an editor has found an image that is specific to the topic and is, in their opinion, more suitable for the introductory paragraph's side bar he will be forced to make a choice between our templates and the integrity of his article. I don't want to put anyone in that position.

• Point of view Templates run the risk of over emphasizing the association with finance at the expense of other business disciplines. Many finance related articles are in fact related to more than one business topic. A good example is Business plan. Of course, business plans are important in finance. However, a number of other management disciplines also consider planning essential and the financial plan is only one part of the business plan. I love the idea of a finance project, but I don't think it should overshadow other parts of business.

• Anyone can edit. Templates as a primary organizing method gets in the way of the ideal that anyone can edit.
  • They require a much greater learning curve than inserting references to categories, e.g. See also: [[:Category:Foo]] or [[Category:Foo]].
  • People are much less comfortable being bold with someone else's template than they are with adding links and categories. It is hard to separate the content from the syntax and so mistakes are more likely. Most people are sensitive to that even when they are comfortable with the template syntax.

• Maintainability. The list of sub-topics related to a field is dynamic. If categories are used to provide a topical structure, the structure is self maintaining. Also more people can get involved because the learning curve for categories is minimal.

• Automation. It is much easier to create bots that walk category trees than it is to create bots that parse links embedded in templates.

• Best use of time. Designing and maintaining templates is time consuming relative to managing categories. Anyone who can do this clearly has strong analytical skills that might be better used evaluating and improving articles. See User:DrewWiki's comments above.

Egfrank 09:52, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Question

Hello, there I'm new to the project, but don't you think you should have a section on the Wikiproject Finance page that shows a picture of your userbox. Just thought I would ask. The Random Editor 21:13, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. But, note: don't just insert the template. This particular template also adds what ever page it is on to the participants category. You'll need to copy the template code and remove the lines that add the project to the categories.

In general, if you think it is a good idea and it is not a major change of direction for an article just do it. It is part of the wikipedia way: see Be Bold! for more information. Egfrank 06:03, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:FINANCE

Hello, I have added my name to the participants' list today. I'd like to help out Wikipedia with its financial content. I just created a shortcut for this WikiProject: WP:FINANCE (I hope I did it right). I see that this project is kinda sleepy, hopefully it will not be long. Cheers, Crzycheetah 05:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

hello wp finance i would like to ask a question that u rgiving all the information related to the field of finance theoyy but it would be more better and it would be more understandable if u would quote some live examples or incidents in the world of finance but over all this project is very good —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.149.31.232 (talk) 08:11, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Template

Here is the new template I created for the Federal Reserve System. Questions, Comments, & Concerns? --Random ^{Say it here!} 19:50, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Money is this week's WP:GACo - your help is needed!

I am here to inform you that the article on money has just been selected as the Good Article Collaboration of the week. This is one of the most important articles in Wikipedia, and certainly of utmost importance within the topical scope of this WikiProject, but unfortunately it is in a very poor state as of now. The selection for COTW makes for a good occassion for a concerted effort to improve it, and I am really counting on the members of WikiProject Finance, with your knowledge and expertise in the field, to help other users involved bring it at least to Good Article standards. In particular, I hope you could provide some gravely needed sources, as well as help make the article summarize the most important aspects of the phenomenon discussed. PrinceGloria 17:56, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Public finance

The Public finance template or variations of it are under discussion at WikiProject Taxation. Morphh ^(talk) 14:31, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Technical analysis

This group may want to know that THF has tagged technical analysis with the WikiProject Finance template, and given the article a "Start" class rating. I see no evidence that THF is a member of WikiProject Finance; he has placed the template while in a POV dispute regarding the article. Thanks for your time and attention.--Rgfolsom 13:28, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Newbie Request

I think it would be useful to have some treatment of historic versus implied volatility for the volatility entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ITVGuy20000 (talk • contribs) 01:40, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

all of the volatility articles that I checked address this. Feco (talk) 19:47, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm slightly confused by the request to be honest. I have worked very hard to ensure the distinction was clear. If there was more detail we would find out what was confusing. Ronnotel (talk) 21:08, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Accumulator (structured product)

Accumulator (structured product) has been listed on AFD. I don't know if this is a significant term or not. Can anyone from this WikiProject offer input? --Stormie (talk) 05:37, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Comments please, possible merge of Currency correlation

A debate is in progress about what to do with article Currency correlation and one of the proposals is to merge it into either Currency pair, Technical analysis or Exchange rate. We'd appreciate any suggestions of where the best place for it is. To keep the conversation in one place, please respond in Talk:Currency_correlation#Fallout_of_Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion.2FCurrency_correlation. Thanks– John (Daytona2 · talk) 20:03, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Graph Requests

I have some experience making finance related graphs (see my user page). I use Adobe Illustrator for conceptual graphs that don't have to be precise. I use gnuplot for more precision. I'd be happy to create graphs to fill specific needs in finance articles. Feel free to post requests here or on my user page. Feco (talk) 06:48, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

WIkiProject Investment

I created a new WikiProject related to Finance but with a much tighter scope: WP:INVESTMENT. This project seeks to improve the quality of investment articles in particular. It is a subset of WikiProject Finance ignoring the banking and credit industry and related topics. My goal is to improve articles for the personal investor and democratize the markets with access to information. Please consider joining if you are interested. Greg Comlish (talk) 20:08, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

SWX Swiss Exchange

Please check SWX Swiss Exchange. Thank you! --Foggy Morning (talk) 01:49, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Beta Decay

Anyone heard of the term Beta Decay in relation to finance? It is related somehow to the decay of the Beta coefficient. I haven't found much about it online but I know it is in use and I think it could make a good article. Pocopocopocopoco (talk) 04:57, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Please see Beta decay (finance). And help me build this article. Pocopocopocopoco (talk) 04:05, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics

This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.

See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.

The Transhumanist 10:39, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

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DataTreasury

There is some discussion and editing going on over at DataTreasury and it would be very helpful if others could take a look and offer advice and opinions. Thanks! --ElKevbo (talk) 02:38, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Finance

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Please review new article I created

Please review Clearing House Automated Transfer System and let me know how it can be improved. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 12:59, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Morgan Stanley could use update

Morgan Stanley could use update in light of recent developments. -- 201.53.7.16 (talk) 23:04, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Credit Default Swap

Please help improve the lede of Credit Default Swap. We had several requests on the talk page saying that the opening section is not very comprehensible. I tried but I can't seem to find reliable sources explaining this nicely. Also, please comment at Talk:Credit default swap#First paragraph, Wiki Fascism or just an Ass?. Thanks, Zain Ebrahim (talk) 08:45, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

New Template on "Current Market Crashes"

I've created this template to deal with a problem that we had on Jan.21 and Sept.30, 2008. Some people may panic at times of market volatility and create articles saying "This is a crash," "This is the big one" etc. I don't think that this type of article has any use to anybody, and may cause or contribute to significant damage - something like yelling fire in a crowded theater.

The purpose of this template is really only to warn readers that we can't call crashes any better than anybody else, and to help delay any of these types of articles until the next day when solidly reliable financial news sources, such as the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and probably the New York Times, can give a reasonably calm assessment of the situation.

Any comments, editing contributions, etc. welcomed.

Also if you see any such panic-pushing articles, please apply the template.

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Collateralized debt obligation and Gaussian copula models

Can somebody with some knowledge of the subject have a look at Collateralized debt obligation and the discussion going on there? An editor tried to remove a section about the Glass-Steagall Act because it mentioned Phil Gramm, and the replacement of this section brought forth some questions about the section. NJGW (talk) 19:06, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Naked short selling

Ditto for naked short selling, which I've just placed under the roof of this Wiki project. I'm hoping that there may be some expertise brought to bear. JohnnyB256 (talk) 00:47, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Article Assessments

Hello all. I have started going through Unassesed Finance articles and adding assessments... however I am a little unclear on the procedure for doing this. For example, the article Accountancy has been rated as an A-Class article by the Wikiproject Business, however it has no rating from WikiProject Finance. How do I go about getting the proper number of reviews for this article to be rated as A-Class by the WikiProject Finance as well? Just ask for comments on the talk page, or does this wikiproject have a more specific process? Thanks! --Aka042 (talk) 00:45, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Data in an encyclopedia?

Hi, If we consider various indices related to NYSE, Nasdaq, DAX, CAC 40 etc. there are pages for them in Wikipedia. But the basic historical data for them is not available. The data can be freely obtained from sources such as Yahoo, etc. And I have checked the legal issues, and since it is factual data, it is considered public domain, based on Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340, 1991 e.g. see [1].

Why not include such data within Wikipedia? I would vote to include a few years, and a few charts, since such data/facts border on being financial knowledge. And it will make it easy for people to get to the data as well as the other financial facts. I can add a few years of daily data for the basic/key index types. And others can then add other datasets. But let us have a discussion beforehand, and agree on a data format anyway.

I am not sure of the legal status in the UK based on their "sweat of the brow" concept, although I have never seen much financial sweat in data collection - the only recent financial sweat has beenn during data observation as the indices have dived. Anway, comments will be appreciated. History2007 (talk) 13:27, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Structure of Late 2000s recession/region articles

Could somebody review this for me? I don't remember the details, but maybe there should be a separate section. Ottre 06:34, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group

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Document stamp

Hi, folks!

A brief question - what would the official name be for the revenue stamps that are placed on documents in order to legalize them - eg. documents compliant with stamp duty in the UK; marriage certificates; official translations of legal documents, etc? A suggestion has been made that "documentary stamp" is used in the US, but is this also the case for the entire english-speaking world? please place your answers here, as this question has been asked in several wikiproject pages. Thank you! (the discussion that led to this question can be seen just above the link provided.) BigSteve (talk) 13:41, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

The term I've seen in books on stamp collecting have used the term "Fiscal stamp".

For many years (1881 to 1967), some values of British postage stamps bore the words "Postage and Inland Revenue" (or contractions such as "Postage Revenue") to indicate that they were dual-purpose. Such values were often printed in doubly-fugitive inks as a security measure. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:06, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Core article improvement on financial crisis and its associated issues

I'm not a member of this project, but I have experience improving articles and I am very curious/angry about the financial meltdown. I do not think it is explained well in Global financial crisis of 2008–2009, Financial crisis of 2007–2010, Subprime mortgage crisis, or 2000s energy crisis. Although the citations appear to be in order, the structure does not allow for layman understanding, links to integral concepts are not explained, and articles are filled with insider jargon. Actually, links may be explained, but the jargon and writing is so confusing that I'm not getting it. I'm willing to make an analogy between these articles and medical articles because the language is so inaccessible that folks who do not have significant experience in economic issues will be lost.

On a more esoteric tangent, I think it is a disservice to keep the articles so enigmatic that readers are unable to understand them. Ignorance fosters poverty.

I've overhauled articles before (it's what I do, in fact), but I'm usually able to teach myself the concepts within. With these, I need help just to understand what the articles are saying. If anyone is interested in getting these articles to GA or FA, they certainly belong there. I do not think it would take much: a couple weeks of discussion on how best to present the material simply yet still be accurate and use the best sources available. So, I'm asking if anyone is interested in taking one of these articles to start with, and working with me to get it to GA. I think all four should be improved, and possibly more. Let me know. Thanks. --Moni3 (talk) 12:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I agree with everything you just said. Seeing as you initiated this discussion, you should go ahead and choose the article we begin with. We have quite a few articles on this. I haven't edited articles in a while but I'll try to spend some time to help with whatever you choose. Zain Ebrahim (talk) 12:56, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the encouragement, Zain Ebrahim111. I started a discussion at Talk:Global financial crisis of 2008–2009. --Moni3 (talk) 13:56, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks. — Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 09:08, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Uptick rule

I see from the talk page of this article that it is supported by Wikiproject Finance. Well, caballeros, support is needed. People with market expertise may wish to review issues pertaining to possible POV and original research, as pertained to charts and sections that have been subject to recent reverts. cheers, JohnnyB256 (talk) 20:46, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Asset-backed commercial paper

I'm no expert, but I believe the entry for "Asset-backed commercial paper" is a mistake Made in Québec. In the province, the term is used ubiquitously by the press to designate what are more correctly Collateralized Debt Obligations and other Asset-Backed Securities. At any rate, the text for the entry is poor and tenuously (and erroneously) referenced. If anything, there should be an entry explaining the incorrect use of the term. 132.216.227.157 (talk) 08:10, 17 May 2009 (UTC)cmaguirre

Notability of Ponzi schemes

Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography#Notability of Ponzi Schemes, which I just created. Could interested parties help decide which Ponzi schemes get their own article and which ones only get mentioned at List of Ponzi schemes? Please leave your responses at the other WikiProject, because a fragmented debate could create contradictory consensuses. Jesse Viviano (talk) 11:01, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Attention parameter on Finance template

The WikiProject Finance template looks like this: {{WikiProject Finance |class=Start |importance=high |attention= |peer-review= |old-peer-review= |needs-infobox= }}

When would an editor be justified to make the parameter "attention=yes" in this template on a talk page? Finance and economics terms such as Moral hazard, Systemic risk, Systematic risk and Too Big to Fail policy are widely used on TV and elsewhere, but readers who come to Wikipedia may not find a good and current explanation of these terms. The WP:BB principle was overcome by caution, so here is an opportunity to say when the "attention=yes" parameter is justified. --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:36, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Asset allocation

Is a cell phone an asset? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.15.162.114 (talk) 09:26, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, provided it has monetary value and can thus be sold for cash. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:59, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

The section on naked short selling, while improved somewhat, still reads as something of a mishmash of lawsuits and allegations. Some experienced hands would be helpful.--JohnnyB256 (talk) 03:00, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Ticker symbols

In most articles about companies, there is a list of ticker symbols. For example, Teliasonera lists Nasdaq Stockholm: TLSN. The thing is that there are now two different stock exchanges in the Nordic countries, and OMX is only one of them. Should there also be a link to Burgundy? Note that the Wikipedia article contains various outdated information.

future of world stock market.

as per my opinion . market ups and down is control by nature .not by man,or group.or by money power.my reason to give my opinin is to save small pepole.who are investing thare hard earned money. in futuer when idont no but its sure that world will fase new crisses. no one understand what is market.not even world famous person .

future of world stock market.

as per my opinion . market ups and down is control by nature .not by man,or group.or by money power.my reason to give my opinin is to save small pepole.who are investing thare hard earned money. in futuer when idont no but its sure that world will fase new crisses. no one understand what is market.not even world famous person . my mail add ompradeepom@YAHOO.COM

Loan modification articles

Mortgage modification and Loan modification in the United States seem to be about the same thing and need cleanup. -- 67.98.206.2 (talk) 19:08, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Popular pages

I have requested a list of popular pages for this project at [2]. --78.111.169.38 (talk) 10:12, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

IShares DJ Euro Stoxx 50

There is an ongoing deletion discussion about a finance-related article here. Your contributions to the discussion would be appreciated. Neelix (talk) 17:05, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Fibonacci retracement

The article titled Fibonacci retracement needs a lot of work. In particular to work on the article itself, there's the question of which other articles should link to it. Michael Hardy (talk) 19:46, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

...and now there are eight articles that link to it. Michael Hardy (talk) 20:27, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

OK, someone's deleted it as a copyright infringement. So we need to create another version that does not infringe on any copyrights. Michael Hardy (talk) 21:12, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

...and now someone's done that, but it very very stubby. Michael Hardy (talk) 19:27, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

• A quite famous quack theory. See WP:Fringe for reason why we shouldn't include it. Smallbones (talk) 23:26, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

dude this is believed by almost anyone that works in finance that i've ever talked to —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.107.1.165 (talk) 20:56, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Pageview stats

After a recent request, I added WikiProject Finance to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 00:42, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Smallbones (talk) 00:57, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Interesting stats, thanks very much. I had no idea Bernard Madoff was just "mid" importance. I also had no idea that the Category:High Importance page had been vandalized for quite some time! Heh.--JohnnyB256 (talk) 01:43, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Book-class

Since this is probably several Wikipedia-Books are finance-related, could this project adopt the book-class? This would really help WikiProject Wikipedia-Books, as the WP Finance people can oversee books like Options (finance) much better than we could as far as merging, deletion, content, and such are concerned. Eventually there probably will be a "Books for discussion" process, so that would be incorporated in the Article Alerts. I'm placing this here rather than on the template page since several taskforces would be concerned.

There's an article in this week Signpost if you aren't familiar with Wikipedia-Books and classes in general. Thanks. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 21:21, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Anyone for/against this? Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 20:45, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

New editor needs help with financial articles

A new editor needs some help with financial articles. See User talk:Davidwr#Locstein Asset Management, Talk:Locstein Asset Management, and User talk:Laurenfindley. Any help you can give is appreciated. Feel free to jump into the conversation that's on my talk page. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 21:35, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

AfD of interest

The members of this wikiproject may be interested in the AfD discussion for this article. Cla68 (talk) 23:11, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Robertson v. McGraw-Hill Co.

Pending a decision on the AfD noted above, it would be helpful to get assistance in the article talk space from members of this project. The discussion in Talk:Robertson v. McGraw-Hill Co. concerns the notability of the article, whether there are other related articles that may be created (there is no article on a much bigger and more significant defamation suit), and whether cuts to the article should be restored or retained. --JohnnyB256 (talk) 15:45, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Book:Derivatives

Please give feedback on the title of this book on the book's talk page. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 04:55, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Book:Options (finance)

Please give feedback on the title of this book on the book's talk page. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 20:03, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. — Carl (CBM · talk) 03:18, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Quantitative fund

If anyone here has some time, Quantitative fund is badly in need of a cleanup from someone who is knowledgeable about hedge funds. thanks, LK (talk) 16:35, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Volatility

DominicConnor (talk) 21:49, 19 February 2010 (UTC) The vol page has no citations and is flagged, so unless someone objects, I'm going to add references maybe polish a little

Also, the bios for the well known are too brief, often without citations/references, and frequently not there at all for some people who really ought to be. I'm also DCFC so it's not so much hassle for me to get this info, though the "no original research" rule gets in the way a bit.

Rounding errors?

Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Business#Rounding in examples. New user Peter du Marchie van Voorthuysen has identified some likely errors in financial articles. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:14, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Money Market savings

Kind of a general question but perhaps worth including in the Money market deposit account article. MMAs as I originally understood them were low-risk investment accounts subject to market risk. However when I look at account types today I see a lot of online banks offering "high-yield online savings", "high-interest savings", and "money market savings", all of which seem to be interchangeable terms. The higher interest yield is usually attributed to the online nature of the account, rather than to any market risk. So it's not clear to a layman like myself, whether these are really savings accounts, or investment accounts, e.g. whether or not there is market risk in these accounts. 99.153.217.93 (talk) 10:55, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Bollinger Bands?

A discussion has begun here on my user talk page, about the appropriate title for an article that I moved to Bollinger band. Should it be

• Bollinger band, or
• Bollinger bands, or
• Bollinger Band, or
• Bolinger Bands ?

WP:MOS says article titles should be singular with certain exceptions. One exception is for terms used only in the plural. Another (actually the only other one that I recall) says the plural should be used when the article is about a set of things, e.g. Cauchy–Riemann equations or The Beatles. (One may say that Paul McCartney is "a former Beattle", using the singular, but the singular word "Beattle" is not the appropriate title, and one may speak of the second Cauchy–Riemann equation (out of a set of two), but again the singular is not the right title.) Michael Hardy (talk) 17:40, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Requesting opinions on external link

A discussion which may interest members of this wikiproject has been started at Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard#davidandgoliathworld.com. Comments at that discussion would be appreciated. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:42, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Investor protection

What kind of protections exist for investors affected by non-market events such as fraud or broker insolvency? The impression I get is that investors are actually taking two risks with their money: a risk on the market and a risk with the broker or firm that is handling their money. Of course market risk is just part of the deal, but what happens if, for example, a fund manager decides to cash out everyone's money and flee the country? It doesn't seem like anything would really stop this from happening. Are investors really that vulnerable? Ham Pastrami (talk) 04:29, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Investors get some protection from broker frauds and insolvencies via SIPC. John M Baker (talk) 15:36, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Investors accounts with a Broker/dealer are insured up to $500,000 by law with a maximum of 100K of that being held in cash. Every investor is charged a marginal fee yearly ($2-4 bucks or so) and that pool of money is kept by the SIPC to hopefully cover any defaults up to that guaranteed amount and more if possible.(brich) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.85.126.42 (talk) 05:18, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Notification regarding Wikipedia-Books

Hadronic Matter An overview

An example of a book cover, taken from Book:Hadronic Matter

As detailed in last week's Signpost, WildBot has been patrolling Wikipedia-Books and searched for various problems in them, such as books having duplicate articles or containing redirects. WikiProject Wikipedia-Books is in the process of cleaning them up, but help would be appreciated. For this project, the following books have problems:

• Book:Finance (problems)
• Book:Financial Derivatives (problems)
• Book:Options (finance) (problems)
• Book:Risk Management in Finance (problems)

The problem reports explain in details what exactly are the problems, why they are problems, and how to fix them. This way anyone can fix them even if they aren't familiar with books. If you don't see something that looks like this, then all problems have been fixed. (Please strike articles from this list as the problems get fixed.)

Also, the {{saved book}} template has been updated to allow editors to specify the default covers of books (title, subtitle, cover-image, cover-color), and gives are preview of the default cover on the book's page. An example of such a cover is found on the right. Ideally, all books in Category:Book-Class Finance articles should have covers.

If you need help with cleaning up a book, help with the {{saved book}} template, or have any questions about books in general, see Help:Books, Wikipedia:Books, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia-Books, or ask me on my talk page. Also feel free to join WikiProject Wikipedia-Books, as we need all the help we can get.

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Magnetar

I don't know if anybody will respond to this, but there's a new article that can use some help. Following last weekend's reports from This American Life and others, the hedge fund company Magnetar Capital has come into the public view and now has its own article. Reports accuse it of being a major player in constructing especially high-risk CDOs, which it would then short-sell with credit default swaps, amplifying the damage of the financial crisis. It appears edits from the company's domain might be attempting to remove some criticism and I invite the contributions of those more experienced in this field. ——Rich jj (talk) 16:29, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Too Big to Fail

The definition in the article's second paragraph is not accompanied by any citations. Can someone please hunt down a source that either verifies or refutes the claim? If the claim is wrong, a source that labels it as a "popular misconception" would be ideal. Thanks. 128.59.180.241 (talk) 05:10, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Too Big to Fail refers to a term coined during the Mortgage Meltdown of 2008. It refers to entities that are so big that the failure of the entity would have widespread ripple effects so severe that the entity must be kept afloat. The saving of this entity at any monetary cost is deemed to be the lesser evil of allowing the entity to fail. This can be seen with banking institutions in the USA during 2008 and currently with Europe in 2011. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.85.126.42 (talk) 05:24, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Non-functioning templates

Moved from Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance#Templates Created:

I'm not a real go-go template guy. Could we get rid of some of the non-functioning templetes listed below? I don't see that the purpose of the project is to create more of this things. 2 or 3 seem fine with me. Smallbones (talk) 21:58, 3 January 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pnm (talk • contribs)

Three advanced white soldiers

Can anyone translate this financial gobbledygook into English? I tried a copyedit, but I'm not familiar with financial charts so it still needs attention and sources. Ditto Three Black Crows. Fences&Windows 18:06, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

I'll make edits for readability and see if I can find charts that will give visual clarity to the articles. "Three Black Crows" is the correct title for that article, but the other needs to drop "advanced" and be "Three White Soldiers."

Rgfolsom (talk) 19:09, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Is this article accurate? It talks about reversal from a bear market to a bull market. But I think it just refers to reversal of a downtrend, which could be short term. Figureofnine (talk) 15:01, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

I checked two respected sources -- Greg Morris (who I quoted) and Steve Nison's Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques -- and both emphasized the long-term implications of the pattern. Note that I did say "It... suggests a strong price reversal," because of course it's wise to include a hedge word when discussing the future. You can check what Morris says in Google Books, please do let me know if you read him differently.

Thanks. Rgfolsom (talk) 16:03, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Expert needed

Can someone take a look at Transactional funding to see how it can be improved and/or deleted? This same author created Flash cash (and now several other redirects), and I'm not sure if this is a promotional account or not. I'm no expert on this subject matter. — Timneu22 · talk 18:25, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

The article in its present form is just blatant spam. John M Baker (talk) 18:57, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm not seeing the spam aspect. It's in Google under more than one commercial affiliation. Figureofnine (talk) 19:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

The article's only source and external link were to a website for transactional funding. I deleted those as obvious spam. Perhaps the topic would be suitable for an article, if suitable sources could be found. John M Baker (talk) 19:29, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

That's the sense I get, based on the Google hits. Here's something in Google News: [3] Figureofnine (talk) 19:33, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

I don't disagree, but I would want to see more than that one blog post.

A separate question: Is Transactional funding within the scope of this project? We don't seem to treat other real estate articles that way. John M Baker (talk) 20:10, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

I agree about the blog post. To me, that just indicates that this is a real subject. I added it as a source to the article, but I am not sure that it meets wiki criteria on sources. Figureofnine (talk) 22:19, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

CfD discussion that needs additional input

Help is needed in reorganizing Category:Markets at this discussion. If you can help, please place any comments there. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:31, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

FPR

Business and economics has been nominated for a featured portal review. Portals are typically reviewed for one week. During this review, editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the portal from featured status. Please leave your comments and help us to return the portal to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, portals may lose its status as featured portals. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. GamerPro64 (talk) 18:43, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

The Debtors Prison Article

Here:

http://www.startribune.com/local/95692619.html

This article provides an excellent overview of how debt collectors are going around loopholes to arrest people for not paying their debts in the state of Minnesota. For now I am reading they are going to jail because they did not appear in court when the hearing for the debt took place so essentially they are taking warrants out for their arrest using the police as their free "rent a cops" to arrest debtors. If anyone finds anymore excellent information , especially this recent, please post it here. JasonHockeyGuy (talk) 05:31, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

money market accounts

Twelveyrs (talk) 16:16, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Financial adviser

The general article Financial adviser could really use a going over. While Investment adviser is a redirect to this article, there is also a separate article, Investment Advisor, which should probably be merged. Or something. Yworo (talk) 12:57, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

if there is a difference between financial advis[o/e]r and investment advis[o/e]r i don't know what it is —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.3.137.19 (talk) 04:07, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Finance articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Finance articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:01, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard discussion regarding Penny Pritzker and Superior Bank of Chicago articles

FYI, see:

• Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Penny Pritzker and other Pritzker family articles (permanent link)

The edits of concern involve subtle issues about business disputes within the Pritzker family, major stakeholders in the the now-failed Superior Bank of Chicago; it would be good to get additional eyes and opinions on the subject.
--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:13, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Lockbox

Author Jeffrey Archer refers to a "Lock's box" on page 237 of Paths of Glory. Does he know something or is he misinformed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.241.182.173 (talk) 22:00, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Silver_as_an_investment page edit and link removal

I received this 'new message' when logged on:

"...one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed...Thank you. futuresoption.com is not a reliable source. Yworo (talk) 23:53, 24 February 2011 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:QQujt" Hidden categories: User talk pages with Uw-spam1 notices"

Can anyone tell me what was it about the external link that did not comply as I see the format used in other areas of Wikipedia.

Who or by what criteria could have been used to arrive at the assertion that futuresoption.com is not a reliable source? It is a very well established site.

I added (under 'Derivatives, CFDs and spread betting'): "As well as being traded on Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)."

QQujt (talk) 02:14, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

futuresoption.com is registered to Westworth Management LC which owns 1300 domains. Other domains include NukePower.com, RadioPhamaceuticals.com, AtomCars.com, Fusionsales.com, etc. It's a domain farm for income from Google ads. They have no expertise in any particular subject and there can be no presumption that the information contained on this sitefarm is in any way reliable. Yworo (talk) 20:28, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Citation templates now support more identifiers

Recent changes were made to citations templates (such as {{citation}}, {{cite journal}}, {{cite web}}...). In addition to what was previously supported (bibcode, doi, jstor, isbn, ...), templates now support arXiv, ASIN, JFM, LCCN, MR, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN and Zbl. Before, you needed to place |id={{arxiv|0123.4567}} (or worse |url=http://arxiv.org/abs/0123.4567), now you can simply use |arxiv=0123.4567, likewise for |id={{JSTOR|0123456789}} and |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/0123456789 → |jstor=0123456789.

The full list of supported identifiers is given here (with dummy values):

• John Smith (2000). "How to Put Things into Other Things". Journal of Foobar. 1 (2): 3–4. arXiv:0123456789. ASIN 0123456789. Bibcode:0123456789. doi:0123456789. ISBN 0123456789. ISSN 0123456789. JFM 0123456789. JSTOR 0123456789. LCCN 0123456789. MR 0123456789. OCLC 0123456789. OL 0123456789. OSTI 0123456789. PMC 0123456789. PMID 0123456789. RFC 0123456789. SSRN 0123456789. Zbl 0123456789. |id=____. {{cite journal}}: Check |arxiv= value (help); Check |asin= value (help); Check |bibcode= length (help); Check |doi= value (help); Check |issn= value (help); Check |jfm= value (help); Check |mr= value (help); Check |ol= value (help); Check |osti= value (help); Check |pmc= value (help); Check |pmid= value (help); Check |rfc= value (help); Check |ssrn= value (help); Check |zbl= value (help)

Obviously not all citations needs all parameters, but this streamlines the most popular ones and gives both better metadata and better appearances when printed. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:49, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

stock option

How can I find the exercise price of a stock and also the time to maturity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.170.48.184 (talk) 09:06, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Try these articles

• Strike price
• Option (finance)

--Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 07:40, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Hehe. I hope s/he hasn't been watching this page this whole time hoping for an answer.... --DudeOnTheStreet (talk) 21:44, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Microcredit

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More information must be provided regarding access to institutional and informal financial services among the world's poor. The Microcredit article cites "...a recent Forbes rating" as an indicator of the success of Microcredit. Not only is Forbes not an authoritative source, but the entire article seems the ignore that fact that women make up the majority of recipients of "microloans." Indeed, the idea of providing financial services to the poor was pioneered by Muhammad Yunus as a means of empowering women. The Microcredit article does not mention the gendered impact of microfinance institutions, and paints unbalanced picture of the complicated issue of microcredit. Not only would the inclusion of how microloans affect help one understand the original theory behind microcredit, but also develop a more nuanced representation of Microfinance. As the major means by which the poor interact with global financial systems, microcredit deserves to be represented in an equitable and thorough fashion.

Hedge fund regulation

For anybody who may come across this, I have written a draft section for the Hedge fund page about regulations in the U.S. and abroad (that version here), with the aim of bringing the current section (the current one here) up to present day. Right now it's definitely out of date, in fact it doesn't even mention the Dodd-Frank rules going into effect. Because my day job involves me in the financial industry, I'd like to get someone else's view of it, before I consider moving it myself. And since the hedge fund article falls within the purview of this WikiProject, I figured I would ask here (as I will ask at others) in case anyone has thoughts to share on the subject. Please respond to my post on the Hedge fund Talk page, if you like. Thank you. --Bryant Park Fifth (talk) 21:04, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Template:RMB

{{RMB}} usage is under discussion, see Template talk:RMB . A related discussion is at WT:CHINA. 65.93.12.101 (talk) 09:21, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Wall Street has been selected as the United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for May 2011

Wall Street, a page within the scope of this project, has been selected as the United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for May 2011. All editors interested in improving this article are encouraged to participate. You can also vote for next months article of the Month here. --Kumioko (talk) 20:43, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Credit Score Calculator

Hi i recently added an external link to the Credit Score page that has been removed, it was referencing a credit score calculator that available to the general public. As many of you will know credit scoring in the UK feels very much like a dark art practiced by banks and credit lenders alike. A lot of effort and research has gone into the development of this calculator that is designed to help people understand what effects a persons credit rating/score.

If you like i, feel that this calculator would make a good addition to the credit score (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_score) page on wiki would someone please add the reference or assist me to add the link in a mannor that follows the spirit and guidlines of wiki.

Link in question: http://www.obligo.co.uk/free-credit-score.html

Best,

RossB —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.189.48.83 (talk) 13:11, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Articles on the history of banking

In the last couple of weeks, I've been working on a set of articles related to the history of banking. Frankly, I was shocked at the weakness of our article on Banking in the United States as well as the lack of an article on the History of investment banking. I have worked on improving Banking in the United States. In addition, I created History of banking in the United States and History of investment banking in the United States. There are several stub sections in History of investment banking in the United States and I would appreciate help in fleshing those out. I would also appreciate comments on how to improve these articles.--Pseudo-Richard (talk) 07:02, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Request input from Wikiproject

A user has proposed changes at Talk:Rent-to-own#Minor reorganization, MOS cleanup suggested -- thoughts? and is seeking input from others. I'm posting here as a courtesy for them to get input from a related Wikiproject. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 19:42, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

China Stock Frauds also can use attention from this project. Figureofnine (talk) 15:03, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Comments Please: Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index

Dow Jones Indexes, the providers for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as well as other indices, has recently released a new US Dollar Index in collaboration with currency broker FXCM. This has been featured in the media, such as the Wall Street Journal.

I have written a wikipedia reference entry to provide some background on this index. I invite Wikipedia editors to review and make suggestions: Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index

DFXwiki (talk) 20:03, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

I glanced at it and, for a starting article it looks reasonable, however it is a stub. I tagged the article as only referencing primary sources (it references Dow Jones sources and only one third party source, Bank for International Settlements). I also removed the reference for geographical diversification and replaced it with the citation needed template, because per WP:RS#Primary, secondary, and tertiary sources and WP:Attribution/Examples#Unacceptable sources, referencing other Wikipedia articles is not acceptable practice. However, you were correct in linking the US Dollar Index in the See also section. I should think that this new index has aroused attention from mainstream financial news sources (perhaps Bloomberg, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, etc.?), so you should be able to find more third party sources discussing it. Also, despite it's such a new index, you might search for peer-reviewed research papers published in academic journals (you could perhaps search a subscription database at a University library or public library, or perhaps Google Scholar). I would try to add as much third party support for the contents of the article as possible, and you will likely luck out and find some gems in reliable sources that prompt you to make some noteworthy additions to the article. Best wishes, John Shandy` • talk 04:54, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, these notes are helpful. I'll see about adding secondary sources. DFXwiki (talk) 15:08, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Can a few people pledge to help me out on this article please?

I feel like making an article about locals. I am a local myself so feel like I can spew enough out ;)

Anyway it's a massive subject and I would like some fellow collaborators to pledge to help before I start. Anyone with me? Egg Centric 22:30, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Locals? What do you mean? John Shandy` • talk 23:39, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps he means something like a market maker except in futures markets - are there any left? Smallbones (talk) 23:55, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Apparently another name for floor traders, although I've never heard them called that myself. John M Baker (talk) 04:33, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Kind of. Floor traders can be anybody on the floor. Many floor traders work for large brokers, trading on behalf of clients. There are a number of floor traders who purchase their own individual exchange memberships and get out there on the floor to trade on their own accounts, rather than on behalf of clients. They are called "locals". Floor traders, while largely gone in equities, are still common in open-outcry futures exchanges, such as the NYMEX, COMEX, CME, CBOT, and others. DFXwiki (talk) 14:13, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, very interesting. Is there enough for a separate article, or does it make more sense just to add a Locals section to the currently quite short article on floor traders? Also, "local" strikes me as a hard term to search for in order to find more information. John M Baker (talk) 21:34, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

I agree with Baker. There are heaps worth of finance articles that are stubs or otherwise very short, and many finance articles are already plagued by a lack of notability and verifiability. I think it's probably best to write "Locals" as a section of Floor trader, if searches manage to turn up any good sources. John Shandy` • talk 22:36, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Well my point is most locals are now off floor, they are on screen. In fact in Europe with the exception of about 2 at the LME all are using computers... mostly in arcades/prop shops. Companies like Schneider, Kyte etc actually do more human volume than banks on Eurex/LIFFE etc...

Which is why I didn't think putting it on floor trader would work. Locals certainly used to be on the floor but pretty much excusively now aren't. Egg Centric 07:53, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Would a local then be akin to a Day trader, at least enough to warrant a section in that article? John Shandy` • talk 13:06, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Please sign if you will help

Started Off

I've started out by jotting down some stuff here. If anyone is interested please feel free to edit this to any degree, right up to being an article, there's a lot that could be stuck in.

Finding reliable sources may be an issue. The CFTC does define "local" and "E-local" in this glossary. John M Baker (talk) 00:43, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Progress Report 13 August

Sorry, I've been either busy (99% of the time) or otherwise interested in other parts of Wikipedia (to a large extent that is because market conditions have taken up so much of my day the last thing I've wanted to do is write about them in my free time). So, er, that's 0 progress then. However I am still interested in getting this off the ground. I may be, er, talking my book (does that count as a pun? is it even recognisable as word play? ) but things seem to be calming down a bit now on the exchanges... John and John, any interest? Anyone else?

Requesting feedback on recently improved international finance articles

Recently I have had a bit of a personal mission so to speak, to slowly and steadily bring many of the international finance (and international economics) topics up to Wikipedia standards (preferably up to Good Article criteria, but for now just critical improvements). Many of them are inadequately referenced and contain lots of original research, conjecture, and pure nonsense. Others are just blatantly unencyclopedic and useless to a layperson, diving straight into equations with no explanation or context whatsoever. The following articles are the first three I chose to tackle these past two months, and I even made images for some of them too. They still need work, but I think they are drastic improvements and since they hadn't been receiving much attention before I dove into them, I wanted to show them off and get feedback (all suggestions welcome!). I have many more sources (mostly peer-reviewed journal articles and textbooks) to add to these as I find time to read them and work them into the content.

Forward exchange rate

Current

Essentially new, as it was a redirect to forward price (which itself is unreferenced and not very comprehensive).

Interest rate parity

Before | Current

Triangular arbitrage

Before | Current

If any of you care to read through these (I've done my best so far to make them as reader friendly as possible for a person completely unintroduced to these topics) and post your comments (either here or on those articles' corresponding talk pages), I'd certainly appreciate it. You can read a little more about my current project on my user page, and if you care to work with me more closely on tackling some international finance articles, feel free to drop me a message at my talk page. John Shandy` • talk 02:43, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Standard deviation vs. downside risk

I was looking at pages on topics related to risk and many seem to use the concept of the standard deviation as risk. But in topics in risk measurement, this is specifically not a risk measure. In academic papers on the subject that I read the standard deviation is never used as an example, but I do know in the "real world" it is. If we could form a consensus on the definition of risk to apply to pages I think this could be of use. My opinion is that risk should be synonymous with downside risk (a page that does not at present exist). What does everyone else think? Zfeinst (talk) 05:20, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

I know just enough about uncertainty quantification to be dangerous, but I'll wade in anyway. On technical topics Wikipedia consensus should follow scientific consensus. To my knowledge the "right" definition of risk is one of the big unsolved problems of the field, and this is not a question we should try to answer on researchers' behalf. Meanwhile, as you note, the "real world" buzzes along with standard deviation and other crude risk quantifiers, even if they're not risk measures in the technical sense that most practitioners may not even be aware of. My own thought is that we should use your edit to Sharpe ratio as a model: don't use an ill defined term like "risk" when a reliable source specifies a risk quantifier like standard deviation or whatever else. On the other hand, sometimes we mean "risk" in the nebulous sense, and in those cases we should say "risk". We should also temper our zeal to think of all risk as downside risk, since with most derivatives (and arguably with all trades) one party's upside is the other's downside. Lagrange613 07:11, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

That sounds reasonable to me. When I come across writing I'll try to stay to this rule of thumb. Thanks. Zfeinst (talk) 18:23, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

I agree with Lagrange's suggestion as a good rule of thumb. In technical topics, we're kind of forced to use extreme specificity. John Shandy` • talk 13:16, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

SEC filing and forms

The forms listed at SEC filing are given generic names and show a very US-centric approach. One has to wonder how many forms D there are available in the word, and one would think maybe at least another one or two. It would be very use that these forms were given a specific name that indicates their source, hopefully something with a naming nomenclature. Such a renaming would also allow the the elimination of {{globalise/USA}} on such articles. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:59, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

The Securities and Exchange Commission is an agency of the U.S. federal government, so one would expect an article about it to be U.S.-centric. Lagrange613 16:06, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

I quite agree with Lagrange here, I don't see a material issue with the current names. I think the context of the SEC filing article is a clear indication of what Form D means to the reader. Further, each filing's own article starts out with Form ___ is a report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which... or some variant thereof, which I think makes it clear to the reader what the form is. If a need to disambiguate arises, I should think it would be undertaken on a case by case basis, in which if another notable form carrying the name Form D was written about on Wikipedia, then the appropriate course of action would be to rename Form D to Form D (SEC filing) and the other article to Form D (____) and then create a disambiguation for Form D. This should even be the case if the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission operates a Form D of its own: Form D (Nigerian SEC filing) or what have you. John Shandy` • talk 18:17, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Comment requested regarding Moody's

Over the past several months I have developed well-researched replacement material for Wikipedia's current treatment of Moody's Corporation, Moody's Investors Service and Moody's Analytics. Currently there are two pages: Moody's and Moody's Analytics, but both are under-written, poorly organized and generally neglected. It is important to note that I am working with Moody's on this project, so I wish to be very careful in obtaining community consensus and following Wikipedia's COI guidelines. In recent weeks I have begun seeking feedback from editors, primarily on the Moody's Talk page, regarding three separate drafts for what I intend to be high-quality, non-promotional and well-rounded articles on these subjects. I would like to invite anyone who is interested to review this material and weigh in on the Moody's discussion page, and/or on the Moody's Analytics discussion as well. I welcome any and all helpful comments. Many thanks, Mysidae (talk) 22:56, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Template:Financial regulation

{{Financial regulation}} has been nominated for deletion as being unused. 76.65.128.132 (talk) 10:32, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

List of countries by domestic debt

Another question. I am looking into the "debt issue" more and more thoroughly and I realized that we are missing "List of countries by domestic debt" (should the article/list exist, I beg your pardon). This list addresses "the total quantity of credit, denominated in the domestic currency, provided by financial institutions to the central bank, state and local governments, public non-financial corporations, and the private sector" (World Factbook). In short, how much credit-money there is in each country. See World Factbook list. Does this list fit Wikipedia? Wronguy (talk) 02:24, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

A guideline you might want to look at is WP:LISTN. I imagine there are sources which discuss the domestic debt levels of various countries as a set. Can you locate such sources? I think the data is in the public domain, so there's no copyright problem with using the content in Wikipedia. – Pnm (talk) 04:00, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

There are datasets available at the IMF, Eurostat et. al., but then you have to create the ranked list yourself. And most and every national statistical bureau keep this data online. A note: Remember "domestic debt" must not be confused with "public debt". I also imagine that the list would include domestic debt / GDP ratio and also domestic debt per capita. Also if think an article on domestic debt is needed (with sources), the list should not have to stand by itself. Wronguy (talk) 16:42, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Bloomberg Professional Service - Question About Scope

Hello- I have been looking at the Bloomberg Terminal article and wanted to address the current scope of the article. Presently, the article focuses on the physical hardware that was originally created by Bloomberg known as the Terminal. The primary purpose of the Terminal was to deliver financial data, news and other services that were bundled into a subscription based software known as Bloomberg Professional Service. The Terminal hardware itself has not been universally distributed to subscribers since 1993, but Bloomberg Professional Service continues to be sold by subscription and is now accessible by almost any computer. For example, this Western University refers to this as "Bloomberg Professional Service" in their library research materials: link here. Because Bloomberg Terminal is only a small part of the entire Bloomberg Professional Service package, I would like to propose that its scope be developed to focus on the software service as a whole rather than the Terminal itself. The name of the article would be rewritten to Bloomberg Professional Service. Sections would be created to detail the types of services provided, the service’s impact on Bloomberg L.P. etc., as well as a historical section to touch on the origins of the Terminal so that the integrity of the original article may remain intact. I believe this change in scope would improve the clarity of the article.

Can other please weigh in to let me know if they agree?

If it seems appropriate I can return with a draft of the article with my proposed edits. Thanks --RivBitz (talk) 22:46, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

It sounds appropriate to me, and so perhaps Bloomberg Terminal should be reduced to a mere subsection of Bloomberg Professional Service, or otherwise be addressed in a history subsection of the article. John Shandy` • talk 03:17, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your input. I will return with a draft that keeps these points in mind.--RivBitz (talk) 20:48, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Project Finance replaced with Project Private Equity

The default for joining WikiProject_Finance was erroneously set twice.

• For those who wished to join, in the instructions to click Here, which redirects to the Watch page button
• For inviting others to join WikiProject_Finance

Both were labelled or displayed as WikiProject_Finance
Yet both actually directed to WikiProject_Private_Equity
I realize there is a great deal of enthusiasm and interest in technology, web start-up's and venture capital. However, Private Equity is merely one small, high risk subset of Finance. In the context of this WikiProject, be aware that a thorough understanding of Finance is necessary before studying/understanding Private Equity. I am not implying this was done deliberately! I would only urge caution about something so important. I nearly failed to catch the error, and the same could happen to others. --FeralOink (talk) 16:03, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for calling this to attention, I hadn't noticed it either. John Shandy` • talk 17:04, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Featured picture

File:Twintowers of Deutsche Bank Headquarter in Frankfurt a.M..jpg

The Deutsche Bank Twin Towers, the headquarters of Deutsche Bank, in the banking district of Frankfurt.

This photo is now a Featured Picture. I'd like to suggest that this photo could be put on WikiProject Finance's main page. Pine^talk 07:19, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

That's a nice photo. I don't know what the criteria are for images on WikiProject pages, but it this meets them, I think it would look very fine on the WikiProject Finance main page! --FeralOink (talk) 08:15, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment. I've added the photo. Pine^talk 08:10, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

reverse mortgage

if a home's mortgage is more than it is worth [underwater]can a reverse mortgage still be negotiated at the fair market value.?98.248.130.229 (talk) 18:11, 11 March 2012 (UTC)--98.248.130.229 (talk) 18:11, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi, this isn't the place to ask this kind of question. Here we are discussing only WikiProject Finance and editing the articles within its scope. Pine^(talk) 02:57, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Specifically, the right place to ask the question is the Humanities Reference Desk. However, I will short-circuit the process and point out that, if the home already has a mortgage for more than it is worth, then there is no equity to support a reverse mortgage. John M Baker (talk) 03:20, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Possible abuse / ads citing "world pensions council"

Hi. Some 9 pages related to economics cite views of "world pensions council", but they always read "Think-tanks such as the World Pensions Council". It's at least weasel words, making WPC's opinions look as if they were general.

But that's not all. At least one article, commodity, is misleading, and possibly giving biased advice. This 2012-03-11 version says that investments to "commodities and commodity-related infrastructure" has risen recently, citing this source, written by co-founders of WPC, but the source only mentions infrastructure, not at all to commodity in general. (This section is added to commodity in the last 2 edits.)

It's also followed by a passage "commodity prices could remain ... high levels". But Wikipedia is not for offering investment advice! Does the cotributor (IP) try to manipulate the market? (Maybe not. The cited references are not so new, but it's irritating.) And as a reference, it's not adequate enough. In the reference, that view is not corroborated by any evidence. (Search for the word "Pension" to spot it.) It's cited to argue the future of the Greece related recession.

User_talk:StatPak#JTW_Article_on_Chinese_economy and User talk:Solferino seems to be related issues. The last paragraph of the former says N Firzl, a WPC's founder, runs sock-puppet think-tanks. (Hmm, it's User:Will Beback who said so, and s/he was banned recently...)

I don't have enough background in ecomomics / finance, so I'm not well suited for dedicated research on this issue, and I'd be glad if my report here could help someone to improve Wikipedia. (First I asked this at Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests, and one person kindly advised me to come here.)

To list, the related pages are: Commodity, Treaty of Lisbon, Financial regulation, Capital Requirements Directive, European Fiscal Compact, Basel II, Credit rating agency, European Central Bank, European sovereign debt crisis. Thanks. --Ahora (talk) 07:54, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

I haven't looked into this but, at face value, it sounds like the World Pensions Council may have been given undue weight or lacks adequate notability. John Shandy` • talk 17:49, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

I hadn't heard of the World Pensions Council, but its website and its work with the OECD suggests to me that there's nothing wrong with it as a source. It sounds to me like this is just an inexperienced editor, and the respective articles need to be cleaned up. Note that think tanks usually advocate a particular point of view (though if the World Pensions Council has one, I don't know what it is) so, while I see no problem with citing it, its views should not be given undue weight. John M Baker (talk) 20:10, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Dear all, I just came across comments left by Ahora earlier today re: the World Pensions Council (WPC), notably in the context of the Wikipedia article on Infrastructure- where they’re quoted. Being based in Europe, I can confirm the WPC is one of Europe’s leading think-tanks dedicated to pension investment research- their research (clearly specialized in focus, but the TOPICS IN QUESTION ARE VERY TECHNICAL/REQUIRE SPECIALIZATION) is cited by the likes of AP/Dow Jones Financial News, Reuters, Global Pensions magazine, The INSEAD School of Management (generally regarded as Europe's N°1 business school), Aviva Insurance (UK), Old Mutual (South Africa), etc.

Frankly, I don’t see anything misleading, biased or “weasely” (??) in the section of the article on Infrastructure Ahora refers to: quite the contrary actually… ++ I’m not even sure Ahora has effectively taken the time to (fully) read the two sources in question:

The first source quoted (published jointly in France’s Revue Analyse Financière and Turkey’s JTW) clearly mentions “[primary] commodities” (1st and 2nd paragraphs) and energy-related infrastructure assets such as “power generation” and “power grids” (9th and 11th paragraphs).

The second source quoted (Euromoney magazine published in London) mentions specifically “commodity-rich” sovereign institutions (paragraph 14) active in the field of “oil and other commodities”, and, more generally, “energy” and “energy infrastructure”.

Bottom line: The article in question states the (rather mainstream) perspective of a prominent European think-tank (albeit, specialized in focus), backed by refs to mainstream financial (Euromoney, Revue Analyse Financière) and political science (JTW) journals, published in three leading European countries. Cordially, BJA --B.Andersohn (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:17, 16 March 2012 (UTC).

I agree with John Baker: the World Pensions Council is clearly a legitimate source & there's nothing wrong with it. However, the said articles may need a little re-formulation to avoid any ambiguity: writing "The WPC..." instead of "Think-tanks such as the WPC..." makes sense. --Despues (talk) 15:27, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Glad to hear the WPC sources are genuine. John Shandy` • talk 18:18, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

FluekDene

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