Beginner’s Guide to Techniques for Refreshing Web Pages: Ajax, Comet, HTML5

Introduction This article briefly discusses the technologies used in modern browsers to display web pages, and goes into a little more detail about the user experience on those web pages, in particular how we can get part of a web page to refresh automatically when data changes on a web server. Browsers and HTML I'm …

Credit Default Swap Index Trading: Bid/Offer, Rolls, Roll Conventions

Introduction I apologize in advance for the rather esoteric subject here, but I have in the past done some work with our CDS index trading desk.  The roll dates for the US indexes are once again approaching.  Immediately after the roll date we trade both the old index, the new index, and the roll between …