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1. |  The End of the Risk-Free Rate: Investing When Structural Forces Change Government Debt By: Ben Emons Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 21-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The End of the Risk-Free Rate: Investing When Structural Forces Change Government Debt
A NEW FINANCIAL STRATEGY FOR A NEW FINANCIAL WORLDAs an investor, you’ve probably taken advantage of the risk-free rates in the postcrash economy by putting your money into bonds, stocks, commodities, and currencies. With the rise of government debt across the globe, you can no longer rely on the notion of “safe” to perform asexpected. You need to adapt your investing strategy to a new financial reality.
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2. |  How to Make Money in Stocks Getting Started: A Guide to Putting CAN SLIM Concepts into Action By: Matthew Galgani Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 14-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Make Money in Stocks Getting Started: A Guide to Putting CAN SLIM Concepts into Action
The #1 GROWTH STRATEGY for stock investing“To be a successful investor, start with the basics and stick to the rules. Matt’s book shows you how to do that. It may be the missing link you’ve been looking for.”—William J. O’Neil, Investor’s Business Daily® Founder and Chairman Getting Started takes the guesswork out of investing.
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3. |  By: Brian Nichols Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 22-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
THE ALHPA SEEKER’S GUIDE TO VALUE STOCKSWhen to buy them. How long to hold them. When to sell them.“This book will be welcomed by anyone looking to break free from their financial advisor and manage their own savings.”—DAVID JACKSON, founder and CEO, Seeking Alpha®The world is an uncertain place. This uncertainty impacts the financial markets as much, if not more, than any other space.
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4. |  All About Hedge Funds, Fully Revised Second Edition By: Ezra Zask Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 24-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: All About Hedge Funds, Fully Revised Second Edition
“Every investor stands to benefit from Zask’s long experience and winning narrative.” -- Donald H. Putnam, Managing Partner, Grail Partners LLC“An easy-to-understand history lesson and guide to the often misunderstood world of hedge funds . . . a no-nonsense explanation of the industry written so that just about anyone can understand it. I highly recommend it.”
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5. |  Think Like an Option Trader: How to Profit by Moving from Stocks to Options By: Michael Benklifa Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 31-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Think Like an Option Trader: How to Profit by Moving from Stocks to Options THE SECRET
TO PROFITING FROM OPTIONS:
THINK LIKE
A PROFESSIONAL OPTION TRADER, NOT A STOCK TRADER!
Understand
the unique dynamics of options trades and markets
Practical,
concise insights based on actual option trading scenarios
Master
trade selection, risk management, and more
By
professional options trader Michael Benklifa, best-selling author
of Profiting with Iron Condor Options
Want to win
in options? You must think like a professional option trader. Step
#1: Get rid of the habits you learned in stock trading:
they’re killing you! Step #2: Understand the...
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6. |  Rating Based Modeling of Credit Risk By: Stefan Trueck; Svetlozar T. Rachev Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 15-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Rating Based Modeling of Credit Risk
In the last decade rating-based models have become very popular in credit risk management. These systems use the rating of a company as the decisive variable to evaluate the default risk of a bond or loan. The popularity is due to the straightforwardness of the approach, and to the upcoming new capital accord (Basel II), which allows banks to base their capital requirements on internal as well as external rating systems. Because of this, sophisticated credit risk models are being developed or demanded by banks to assess the risk of their credit portfolio better by recognizing the...
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7. |  An Introduction to Credit Derivatives, 2nd Edition By: Moorad Choudhry Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Introduction to Credit Derivatives, 2nd Edition
The second edition of An Introduction to Credit Derivatives provides a broad introduction to products and a marketplace that have changed significantly since the financial crisis of 2008. Author Moorad Choudhry gives a practitioner's perspective on credit derivative instruments and the risks they involve in a succinct style without sacrificing technical details and scientific precision. Beginning with foundational discussions of credit risk, credit risk transfer and credit ratings, the book proceeds to examine credit default swaps and related pricing, asset swaps, credit-linked...
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8. |  The FT Guide to Financial Spread Betting By: Stuart Fieldhouse Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The FT Guide to Financial Spread Betting
If you think spread betting is complex and high risk then think again. Stuart Fieldhouse demonstrates that with the right knowledge and approach it needn’t be. From opening an account and carrying out basic technical analysis through to assessing market opportunities and minimising risk, this book offers a comprehensive walk-through of everything you need to know to trade successfully. The Financial Times Guide to Spread Betting gives you the tools to spread bet with confidence. The book includes: Different ways to trade, the markets available and various approaches you can use...
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9. |  Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 29-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
The most up-to-date look at how to understand, and invest in, hedge funds
Hedge funds are an essential part of the alternative investing arena, and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. It's important that those investing, or thinking about investing, with hedge funds know exactly what they are about. That's why Kevin Mirabile—a financial professional with over twenty years of business development, regulatory, financing, trading, and sales experience in the hedge fund sector—has created Understanding Hedge Fund Investing.
Page-by-page, this reliable resource offers...
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10. |  By: Triet Nguyen Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 10-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
A practical guide to profiting from the high yield municipal market
This unique guide to the high yield municipal bond market sheds some much-needed light on this esoteric but profitable corner of the fixed-income world. It fills the void between the general reference handbooks on municipal bonds and the superficial treatment of do-it-yourself bond guides, with an emphasis on practical trading applications.
Having witnessed the beginning of the modern high yield tax-exempt institutional market, author Triet Nguyen documents its historical evolution, outlines a conceptual framework for...
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11. |  Investment Theory and Risk Management, + Website By: Steven Peterson Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 08-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Investment Theory and Risk Management, + Website
A unique perspective on applied investment theory and risk management from the Senior Risk Officer of a major pension fund
Investment Theory and Risk Management is a practical guide to today's investment environment. The book's sophisticated quantitative methods are examined by an author who uses these methods at the Virginia Retirement System and teaches them at the Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to showing how investment performance can be evaluated, using Jensen's Alpha, Sharpe's Ratio, and DDM, he delves into four types of optimal portfolios (one that is fully...
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12. |  The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing By Knowing What Others Don't, 2nd Edition By: Kenneth L. Fisher; Jennifer Chou; Lara Hoffmans Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 10-APR-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing By Knowing What Others Don't, 2nd Edition
Ken Fisher explains what the competition doesn't know
From investment expert and long-time Forbes columnist Ken Fisher comes the Second Edition of The Only Three Questions That Count. Most investors know the only way to consistently beat the markets is by knowing things others don't. But how can investors consistently find unique information in an increasingly interconnected world?
In this book, Ken Fisher shows investors how they can find more usable information and improve their investing success rate—by answering just three questions.
Packed with more than 100 visuals and...
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13. |  The Indomitable Investor: Why a Few Succeed in the Stock Market When Everyone Else Fails By: Steven M. Sears Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 03-APR-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Indomitable Investor: Why a Few Succeed in the Stock Market When Everyone Else Fails
A new approach to investing based on how Wall Street insiders approach the market
The Indomitable Investor deconstructs the stock market as the public has come to know it and reconstitutes it from the inside out from the perspective of the fortunate few who dominate Wall Street. By revealing how top investors and traders think and act Steven Sears shows the stock market to be an undulating ocean of money, with seasoned investors reading the waves others cannot.
Teaching readers to think about the market in radically different ways, The Indomitable Investor shows how to improve...
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14. |  By: Antonio Castagna Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 19-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: FX Options and Smile Risk
The FX options market represents one of the most liquid and strongly competitive markets in the world, and features many technical subtleties that can seriously harm the uninformed and unaware trader.
This book is a unique guide to running an FX options book from the market maker perspective. Striking a balance between mathematical rigour and market practice and written by experienced practitioner Antonio Castagna, the book shows readers how to correctly build an entire volatility surface from the market prices of the main structures.
Starting with the basic conventions related to the...
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15. |  The Risk of Trading: Mastering the Most Important Element in Financial Speculation By: Michael Toma Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 17-APR-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Risk of Trading: Mastering the Most Important Element in Financial Speculation
Develop the skills to manage risk in the high-stakes world of financial speculation
The Risk of Trading is a practical resource that takes an in-depth look at one of the most challenging factors of trading—risk management. The book puts a magnifying glass on the issue of risk, something that every trader needs to understand in order to be successful.
Most traders look at risk in terms of a "stop-loss" that enables them to exit a losing trade quickly. In The Risk of Trading, Michael Toma explains that risk is ever-present in every aspect of trading and advocates that traders adopt a...
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16. |  By: David M. Darst Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 06-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Protect assets during times of crisis with this new edition of the New York Times bestseller!
When the first edition of this book appeared it was before the economic crash. This new edition shows how David Darst's particular kind of asset allocation helped his investors during that volatile period. It also contains a discussion of downside and risk tolerance and new self-tests for determining your risk tolerance. And, finally, it reveals how the asset allocation model has changed since 2008. In all of these areas, the author will continue to include new insightful anecdotes like those...
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17. |  Trading Basics: Evolution of a Trader By: Thomas N. Bulkowski Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 15-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Trading Basics: Evolution of a Trader
Comprehensive coverage of the four major trading styles
Evolution of a Trader explores the four trading styles that people use when learning to trade or invest in the stock market. Often, beginners enter the stock market by:
Buying and holding onto a stock (value investing). That works well until the trend ends or a bear market begins. Then they try
Position trading. This is the same as buy-and-hold, except the technique sells positions before a significant trend change occurs.
Swing trading follows when traders increase their frequency of trading, trying to catch the...
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18. |  Investments: Analysis and Management, 12th Edition By: Charles P. Jones Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Investments: Analysis and Management, 12th Edition
In today's economy, it's critical for investors to have a strong understanding of the strategies needed to make the best decisions. Jones arms them with the most up-to-date information in the field while offering a proper balance between investment opportunities, techniques and analytics. He includes new discussions on the rapid rise and interest in exchange-traded funds, the new NYSE-Euronext market, the merger of the NYSE and Amex, and more. Expanded coverage is also presented in behavioral finance and the bond markets. In addition, investors will benefit from the updated problems and...
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19. |  Learn How to Trade Commodities (Collection) By: George Kleinman; Carley Garner Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 26-APR-2013 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learn How to Trade Commodities (Collection) A brand new collection of high-profit
commodity trading techniques and insights… 2 authoritative
introductory guides, now in a convenient e-format, at a great
price!
2 authoritative eBooks bring together all
the knowledge you need to start earning consistent profits in
commodities trading!
You can make huge profits by trading
commodities – if you know how. You must know how these
markets work, how they’re different, where the risks are
hidden, and how to avoid the mistakes too many beginners make. You
need realistic, up-to-the-minute strategies, skills, and knowledge
from experts who...
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20. |  Options Made Easy: Your Guide to Profitable Trading, Third Edition By: Guy Cohen Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 29-APR-2013 Insert Date: 25-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Options Made Easy: Your Guide to Profitable Trading, Third Edition Master option trading, visually, hands-on --
and discover the powerful, easy-to-use OVI indicator that leads the
market, revealing what the world's savviest option traders are
doing right now! Learn option trading from the newest edition of
Guy Cohen's international best-seller Options Made Easy,
which has earned a worldwide reputation for its simplicity, clarity
and hands-on practicality. With outstanding graphics for
step-by-step learning, this easy tutorial packed with real trades
is designed to reinforce every new trader's learning
experience.
Using plain English and clear...
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