Financial Trading and Investing

Informationen zum Autor John Teall is a visiting professor at LUISS Business School in Rome, Italy. He is a former member of the American Stock Exchange and has served as a consultant to Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and other financial institutions. Klappentext A former member of the American Stock Exchange introduces trading and financial markets to upper-division undergraduates and graduate students who are planning to work in the finance industry. Unlike standard investment texts that cover trading as one of many subjects, Financial Trading and Investments concentrates on trading, trading institutions, markets, and the institutions that facilitate and regulate trading activities - what economists call "market microstructure." The text will be accompanied by a website that can be used in conjunction with TraderEx, Markit, StocklinkU, Virtual Trade, Vecon Lab Experiment, Tradingsim, IB Student Trading Lab, Brenexa, Stock Trak and How the Market Works. Zusammenfassung Gives primary attention to trading, trading institutions, and the institutions that facilitate and regulate trading activities-what economists call "market microstructure. This book introduces the financial markets and the quantitative tools used in them to help students learn how the markets operate and gain experience with their principal tools. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 - Introduction to Securities Trading and Markets Chapter 2 - Financial Markets, Trading Processes, and InstrumentsChapter 3 - Institutional TradingChapter 4 - Regulation of Trading and Securities MarketsChapter 5 - Adverse Selection, Trading, and SpreadsChapter 6 - Random Walks, Risk and ArbitrageChapter 7 - Arbitrage and Hedging with Fixed Income Instruments and CurrenciesChapter 8 - Arbitrage and Hedging with OptionsChapter 9 - Evaluating Trading Strategies and PerformanceChapter 10 - The Mind of the InvestorChapter 11 - Market EfficiencyChapter 12 - Trading Gone AwryMathematics AppendixGlossaryEnd-of-Chapter Exercise SolutionsIndex ...

Autorentext
John Teall is a visiting professor at LUISS Business School in Rome, Italy. He is a former member of the American Stock Exchange and has served as a consultant to Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and other financial institutions.

Klappentext

A former member of the American Stock Exchange introduces trading and financial markets to upper-division undergraduates and graduate students who are planning to work in the finance industry. Unlike standard investment texts that cover trading as one of many subjects, Financial Trading and Investing gives primary attention to trading, trading institutions, markets, and the institutions that facilitate and regulate trading activities-what economists call "market microstructure." The text will be accompanied by a website that can be used in conjunction with TraderEx, Markit, StocklinkU, Virtual Trade, Vecon Lab Experiment, Tradingsim, IB Student Trading Lab, Brenexa, Stock Trak and How the Market Works.

Zusammenfassung
Gives primary attention to trading, trading institutions, and the institutions that facilitate and regulate trading activities-what economists call "market microstructure. This book introduces the financial markets and the quantitative tools used in them to help students learn how the markets operate and gain experience with their principal tools.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Securities Trading and Markets Chapter 2 - Financial Markets, Trading Processes, and InstrumentsChapter 3 - Institutional TradingChapter 4 - Regulation of Trading and Securities MarketsChapter 5 - Adverse Selection, Trading, and SpreadsChapter 6 - Random Walks, Risk and ArbitrageChapter 7 - Arbitrage and Hedging with Fixed Income Instruments and CurrenciesChapter 8 - Arbitrage and Hedging with OptionsChapter 9 - Evaluating Trading Strategies and PerformanceChapter 10 - The Mind of the InvestorChapter 11 - Market EfficiencyChapter 12 - Trading Gone AwryMathematics AppendixGlossaryEnd-of-Chapter Exercise SolutionsIndex