Comments on: Straits Times Index Exchange Traded Fund (STI ETF)

By: joanne

joanne — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:18:28 +0000

nope.. not having any exams and thats thankfully! we are just doing assignments

By: Alvin

Alvin — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:03:40 +0000

Are you guys having exams now?

By: Candy

Candy — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:37:02 +0000

haha.. all unisim students. still dont know how to use derivatives to hedge risk..!

By: Alvin

Alvin — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:23:59 +0000

I am not sure why you are insistent in calculating daily returns.

If you really want an answer:

Daily return: (Closing price – Opening price)/Opening price

Average daily return: (Sum up the daily return for x days) / (x days)

Annual return: (Closing price on last trading day – Closing price on opening day)/(Closing price on opening day)

By: joanne

joanne — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:58:16 +0000

after getting the data from yahoo! finance, how do we calculate the daily return, average daily return, and annual return? which figures should we take?

By: Alvin

Alvin — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:31:04 +0000

1) I am not an economist so I do not know how to do it. Anyway, economists always have different opinion on expected inflation rate and most of the time their predictions are not accurate.

2) Yahoo! Finance has the data.

By: Genial

Genial — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:24:45 +0000

(1+nominal rate) = (1+real rate)(1 + expected inflation)

1) how to calculate the real rate for every mth using relationship above for the period of jan 08 to may 11? = )

2) was wondering where to get the data on sti etf prices & sti form aug 1 2010 to july 26 2011 to calculate the daily return/average daiyl return and annual return for sti.

Genial

By: My STI ETF Survived the Sub-prime Crisis

My STI ETF Survived the Sub-prime Crisis — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:10:14 +0000

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By: Rod

Rod — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:10:12 +0000

Thanks so much