stock market analysis

To complete this project, you need a basic knowledge of stocks and stock options, strong financial mathematics, Microsoft Excel, access to Yahoo!Finance or similar stock price history, and optionally, copies of these two books: Options as a Strategic Investment by Lawrence G. McMillan, and Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques by Sheldon Natenberg. I want a study of the long-term (minimum 30-year) risk/return characteristics of the following three well known options strategies: - 10% options and 90% treasury bills - long stock with cost-free collars - long stock with long protective puts You may use the S&P 500, DJIA, or Russell 2000 as a proxy for stock returns. Be sure not to neglect the effect of dividends. ## Deliverables Your final deliverable must be of comparable quality to a senior college paper of grade "A". In addition to the computational spreadsheets, I also need an accompanying whitepaper explaining the methodology and results. Overall paper must be a minimum of 10 pages (standard font and spacing), not including long data tables. All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement). ## Platform Microsoft Word and Excel.