Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Investments & Securities - Futures

New to the Second Edition

The book originally published in March 2000 to widespread acclaim. This revised edition has been updated with minor corrections and new references, and now includes a chapter of exercises and solutions, enabling use as a course text.

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Through the problem of option pricing, the author introduces powerful tools and methods, including differential geometry, spectral decomposition, and supersymmetry, and applies these methods to practical problems in finance. He mainly focuses on the calibration and dynamics of implied...

In February 1995, the unthinkable happened: one of the oldest and most respected merchant banks in London went bankrupt. The story that "rogue" Barings trader Nick Leeson lost hundreds of millions of pounds speculating in the Far East was front-page news throughout the world. Accused of fraud on a massive scale, Leeson first strenuously opposed being tried in Singapore, then eventually was taken there from his prison in Frankfurt. In December 1995 he pleaded guilty - and the trial began and ended within two days. As a result, the prosecution case against Leeson was not heard. What really...

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""Marvelous I read "Common Cents "on a recent cross-country flight and . . . I was mesmerized. Bravo ""

"--Tom Peters, author of "In Search of Excellence "and "Thriving on Chaos

The first edition of "Common Cents "was the world's bestselling book on Activity-Based Costing (ABC) and Activity-Based Management (ABM). This completely revised and updated edition uses numerous case histories and new implementation strategies to reflect today's transition from manufacturing to service, and explains how all professionals can use ABC and ABM to dramatically improve decision making.

To earn a living as a trader, even part time, takes consistency. Most first-time investors find today's turbulent markets are anything but consistent. To keep from throwing your money away following obsolete trading strategies, you need a seasoned mentor like Sarah Potter to provide the latest insight, training, techniques, and action steps to become the trader you want to be.

How You Can Trade Like a Pro holds the answer to fulfilling your dream of earning an income by trading.

Written by an educator who now trades...

Contracts for Difference is the first Australian book on the subject. In her easy-to-read, jargon-free style, author Catherine...

Contracts for difference (CFDs) offer an opportunity to make your money work hard for you with the potential for large returns on little outlay. This book includes the information you need to know to get started trading CFDs, and it provides tried-and-true strategies anyone can use.

Inside you'll find information on:

• types of orders and how to place them
• using leverage to your advantage
• managing risk
• CFD providers (direct market access...

The Asylum is a stunning expose by a seasoned Wall Street journalist that once and for all reveals the truth behind America's oil addiction in all its unscripted and dysfunctional glory.

In the tradition of Too Big to Fail and Liar's Poker, author Leah McGrath Goodman tells the amazing-but-true story of a band of struggling, hardscrabble traders who, after enduring decades of scorn from New York's stuffy financial establishment, overcame more than a century of failure, infighting, and brinksmanship to build the world's reigning oil empire--entirely by...

Discover the Potential of Options for Managing Risk, Profiting from Bull or Bear Markets, and Leveraging Your Investments

Thousands of individual traders and investors used the first two editions of Tom McCafferty's All About Options to master every aspect of the options market_and develop strategies for making winning investments.

Now revised and updated, the Third Edition of this best-selling guide provides a clear, no-nonsense explanation of the risks and rewards of using options, ranging from options basics to hedging and speculating to options pricing.

Why do markets keep crashing and why are financial crises greater than ever before? As the risk manager to some of the leading firms on Wall Street-from Morgan Stanley to Salomon and Citigroup-and a member of some of the world's largest hedge funds, from Moore Capital to Ziff Brothers and FrontPoint Partners, Rick Bookstaber has seen the ghost inside the machine and vividly shows us a world that is even riskier than we think. The very things done to make markets safer, have, in fact, created a world that is far more dangerous. From the 1987 crash...