Modeling risk for long and short trading positions

Journal of Risk Finance

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 226-238

  Angelidis, Timotheos ^a   Degiannakis, Stavros ^b  

^a Athens Laboratory of Business Administration   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Risk management; Volatility

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015403828     PISSN: 15265943     EISSN: 09657967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/15265940510599838     Document Type: Article

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