This updated paperback edition of Inside the House of Money lifts the veil on the typically opaque world of hedge funds offering a rare glimpse at how today's highest paid money managers approach their craft. Now with new commentary, author, Steve Drobny takes you even further into the hedge fund industry. He demystifies how these star traders make billions for their well-heeled investors, revealing their theories, strategies and approaches to markets. Whereas some still maintain that rationalit...
Price-Forecasting Models for Honda Motor Ltd 7267 Stock (Nikkei 225 Components, #57)
by Ton Viet Ta
Price-Forecasting Models for Royce Micro-Cap Trust RMT Stock
by Ton Viet Ta
Building a decent retirement nest-egg is hard work.… Ensuring it’s there when you need it can be just as challenging. Every RRSP owner watched in horror as the stock market fell steeply during 2008. With company pension plans tapped out and employers filing for bankruptcy, the security of an adequate and guaranteed pension has become a thing of the past for most Canadians. It is not enough to build retirement savings during your working years—it has become just as important to guard them from ec...
Foundations of Futures Markets (Financial Economists of the Twentieth Century)
by A G Malliaris
Futures markets undergo perpetual change, influenced by and in turn influencing the flux of the world economy, trade balances and the nature of trading itself. A.G. Malliaris has been a pioneer in the analysis of futures markets, and this definitive selection of his work in the area provides a comprehensive analysis of the field.The book is unique in the literature of futures markets because of three distinct features: a comprehensive survey of the field, an exposition of several methodologies,...
Hedge Funds (Wiley Finance, #313)
by Greg N Gregoriou, Georges Hubner, Nicolas Papageorgiou, and Fabrice D. Rouah
Whether already experienced with hedge funds or just thinking about investing in them, readers need a firm understanding of this unique investment vehicle in order to achieve maximum success. Hedge Funds unites over thirty of the top practitioners and academics in the hedge fund industry to provide readers with the latest findings in this field. Their analysis deals with a variety of topics, from new methods of performance evaluation to portfolio allocation and risk/return matters. Although some...
Intermediate Futures And Options: An Active Learning Approach
by Cheng-few Lee, John C Lee, and Alice C Lee
Futures and Options are concerned with the valuation of derivatives and their application to hedging and speculating investments. This book contains 22 chapters and is divided into five parts. Part I contains an overview including a general introduction as well as an introduction to futures, options, swaps, and valuation theories. Part II: Forwards and Futures discusses futures valuation, the futures market, hedging strategies, and various types of futures. Part III: Option Theories and Applicat...
The growth of derivative markets during the past decade has been nothing short of astounding and so, of late, has been the misunderstanding of their use. This book is the definitive resource on derivatives. It is the first to explain all four major classes of derivative instruments - options, futures, interest rate swaps, and mortgage securities - in terms of their market structure, applications, and pricing, with a focus on the valuation methods used most commonly by professional market partici...
In this paperback edition of the best-selling Winning in the Futures Markets, Revised Edition, author George Angell provides readers with an insider's guided tour of these exciting markets. For the novice trader, he provides the basic training, explaining the meaning of a futures contract, how margin works, the ins and outs of dealing with brokers, how to place orders and much more. For the seasoned trader, according to Angell, access to accurate, reliable information on the futures markets is t...
A Short History of Financial Euphoria (Penguin business)
by John Kenneth Galbraith
The world-renowned economist offers "dourly irreverent analyses of financial debacle from the tulip craze of the seventeenth century to the recent plague of junk bonds."The Atlantic.
Hot on the heels of electronic stock trading, electronic futures trading promises to he the next big wave. The Art of Electronic Futures Trading is the first comprehensive examination of the unique psychological aspects needed to successfully trade electronic futures -- complete with real world feedback and pointers from actual traders!A multi-step personality test illustrates the four categories of trading style, pointing traders to the right style for their personalities. It then helps them bu...
This revised and expanded edition introduces students and managers to the theory and practice of pricing and hedging futures, forwards, options and swaps. The presentation is clear and logical, signposting difficult formulae to allow non-mathematicians to benefit from the book. Expanded coverage is given to the use and risks of derivatives in treasury as well as portfolio management. Topical new material is included on commodity derivatives, exotic options and the risks associated with derivativ...
Based on an enormously popular "derivative instruments and applications" course taught by risk expert Christopher Culp at the University of Chicago, Risk Transfer will prepare both current practitioners and students alike for many of the issues and problems they will face in derivative markets. Filled with in-depth insight and practical advice, this book is an essential resource for those who want a comprehensive education and working knowledge of this major field in finance, as well as professi...
"Short term interest rate futures" (STIR futures) are one of the largest financial markets in the world. The two main contracts, the Eurodollar and Euribor regularly trade in excess of one trillion dollars and euros of US and European interest rates each day. STIR futures are also unique because their structure encourages spread and strategy trading, offering a risk reward profile incomparable to other financial markets. STIR futures are traded on a completely electronic market place that provid...