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

How to understand--and profit from--reliable and easy-to-use indicators that are often overlooked by the popular press

Seven Indicators That Move Markets reveals easy-to-use indicators that have been shown to actually forecast where the financial markets are going next. These indicators, widely available in daily newspapers and on the Internet, provide continuously updated figures and data that describe what market users are thinking today--and where the markets could be headed tomorrow.

This timely book shows savvy investors where and when to look for these...

You can't profit without an edge

Without an edge, the costs of trading will cause you to lose money over the long haul. In order to gain an edge in trading, you must find a statistical advantage within a market. And the best edges come from market shifts fueled by a trader's psychology. In Optimize Your Trading Edge, investing expert Bo Yoder provides traders in every market with the insight needed to hone their current trading strategies with edge analysis.

Optimize Your Trading Edge explains the important dynamics of statistical probability and how it...

This book is an advanced text on the theory of forward and futures markets which aims at providing readers with a comprehensive knowledge of how prices are established and evolve in time, what optimal strategies one can expect the participants to follow, whether they pertain to arbitrage, speculation or hedging, what characterizes such markets and what major theoretical and practical differences distinguish futures from forward contracts. It should be of interest to students (MBAs majoring in finance with quantitative skills and PhDs in finance and financial economics), academics (both...

Is your investment in that new Internet stock a sign of stock market savvy or an act of peculiarly American speculative folly? How has the psychology of investing changed--and not changed--over the last five hundred years? Edward Chancellor examines the nature of speculation--from medieval Europe to the Tulip mania of the 1630s to today's Internet stock craze. A contributing writer to The Financial Times and The Economist, looks at both the psychological and economic forces that drive people to "bet" their money in markets; how markets are made, unmade, and manipulated;...

Single Stock Futures are regarded by many as the ultimate derivative. Having finally made their US trading debut in November 2002, the market is set for explosive global growth during 2003 and 2004. Written by experienced traders, this is the first practical guide to this exciting new product as increasingly traded throughout the world.

This is a comprehensive guide to technical analysis in the futures market. Starting with an expanded overview of classical chart analysis, Schwager then explores the structure and design of a variety of technical trading systems and demonstrates their application in real markets. He offers tips on how to test and optimize trading systems and highlights both the benefits and the potential weaknesses of a wide range of technical analysis techniques.

Acclaim for Leo Melamed Escape to the Futures

"A well-written, fascinating memoir of a remarkable man of many parts, who arrived in the United States at age 9, fleeing the Holocaust. Almost single-handedly, he transformed a minor commodity exchange into the leading futures market in the world. His influence was and remains worldwide." --Milton Friedman Senior Research Fellow Hoover Institution, Stanford University

"There are only a few people who have revolutionized big portions of the business world. Warren Buffett did it in investing, Bill Gates in software. Leo Melamed, author of...

The definitive guide to technical analysis . . . written from a trader's perspective

With the keen insight and perspective that have made him a market legend, Jack D. Schwager explores, explains, and examines the application of technical analysis in futures trading. In the most in-depth, comprehensive book available, the bestselling investment writer demonstrates why he is one of today's foremost authorities. Here is the one volume no trader should be without.

"Jack Schwager has accomplished the rarest of feats in this book. He has presented material in a way that...

"A brilliantly conceived and lucidly written exposition of the most important topic on the frontier of modern finance. This book takes the mystery out of derivatives. Bravo "--John H. Langbein, Professor, Yale Law School

"Derivatives for Decision Makers is a first in explaining derivatives to those who need to understand them. It explains what derivatives are, how they can be used as risk management tools, and what managers and decision makers need to know about the subject. Not only is the technical substance superb, but the form is accessible to all decision makers."--Afsaneh Mashayekhi...

Cultivate the skills necessary to follow your business intuitions

No matter how much background and training a trader or investor has, intuition remains the key personal asset to attaining financial success. Success depends on refining your intuition to a level that allows you to take the next step with unshakable confidence. But bringing yourself to this level is a daunting challenge--one that often requires you to override the logic of your acquired knowledge. With insights from industry success stories, exercises, and analysis from psychologists and psychiatrists, The...

The must-have book for all futures traders

In Fundamental Analysis, the legendary Jack D. Schwager has produced the most comprehensive, in-depth book ever written on the use of fundamental analysis for futures trading. In what is destined to become the bible of the futures industry, Schwager has poured out insights gathered during his long career as a trader, researcher, bestselling writer, and highly regarded authority in the field.

This book is packed with invaluable information you'll use every trading day. "Futures guru Jack Schwager has created the definitive...

Hedge funds are private pools of money managed intensively and aggressively, for which the managers are typically paid a percentage of the profits and therefore stretch for incredibly high returns. This book aims to show traders and investors how to utilize global trading strategies with technical analysis techniques to identify and ride trends to achieve high returns. The author examines the major markets and shows where the odds are greatest in the trader's favour. He also discusses how to select investments and earn maximum profits from major market moves.

The foreign exchange market is the largest market in the world, with over a trillion dollars a week flowing through the marketplace. Within this market, currency derivatives have become a prominent trading tool, with large banks, brokerages, hedge funds and trading advisors all utilising them. They are more complicated than ever, yet are integral to managing foreign exchange risk. This text deals with the foreign exchange marketplace with its increasingly complicated products. And has a compendium of 20 articles on currency derivatives, pricing theory and hedging applications.

Technical analysis is the art and science of deciphering chart patterns in order to better predict prices of a given security. Thousands of traders turn to technical analysis to guide their investments.

Equity derivative are future or options on stock or stock indexes. Traditional equity derivatives include warrants, options, futures, and stock index futures. This handbook covers equity index futures and options, and widens the scope of the mathematical discussion on the Black-Scholes model.

Increased marketplace volatility and the expanding size of capital markets have led to an explosion of interest in options on futures. What makes these instruments so attractive is that they allow traders to profit from movements in the markets using little up-front capital and plenty of leverage. At the same time, they provide an excellent hedge against the risks associated with capital market investments. This book demystifies these notoriously difficult-to-understand instruments and provides state-of-the-art strategies and tools for making the most of options on futures.
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Real trading strategies for making a killing in today's volatile markets
Advanced Swing Trading reveals the strategies used by George Soros, Warren Buffett and other high-profile traders to reap whirlwind profits in today's volatile markets. With the demise of day trading, traders are searching for new methods of exploiting the unprecedented volatility of post-9/11 securities markets. The most successful of these methods so far has been swing trading, a powerful technical approach that allows traders to profit from shorter-term price moves, ranging from several days to a couple of...

Money management is a key factor in trading success but, until now, very little has been written on the subject. This invaluable guide to money management strategies distills complex theories for the benefit of the average trader with little or no background in finance or mathematics. It offers a wide range of valuable, practical strategies for limiting risk, avoiding catastrophic losses, and managing the futures portfolio to maximize profits.

Written by more than a dozen top experts in the fields of futures fund management, portfolio management, accounting, law and banking, this text aims to provide complete coverage of the role of managed futures in the institutional portfolio. It provides practical information and strategies for using managed futures successfully - from accounting, tax, legal and regulatory issues to choosing and overseeing managers for these funds.

Since the 1980s there has been an explosion in derivatives trading. The structure of these financial products, however, has become increasingly complex and they now command an increasingly large amount of money. Derivatives have often been seen as the great villain of the piece, responsible for some of the most newsworthy financial disasters, including Barings Bank and the ERM Crisis. With this revised edition, Alfred Steinherr offers an alternative view that, carefully handled, derivatives are an effective and perfectly acceptable investment medium and that they offer the ideal method to...