A complete set of statistical tools for beginning financial analysts from a leading authority
Written by one of the leading experts on the topic, An Introduction to Analysis of Financial Data with R explores basic concepts of visualization of financial data. Through a fundamental balance between theory and...
A comprehensive study companion to The Options Course, Second Edition In The Options Course Workbook, Second Edition, George Fontanills offers a wealth of practical exercises that will help further the readers' understanding of options, as well as test and apply what they've learned before they take their first step into the real...
“I’ve been trading stocks and commodities for more than 30 years, and I’ve read any number of how-to books, but George Kleinman’s The New Commodity Trading Guide is as clear, precise, and useful as any book I’ve come across during my career. I cannot recommend it strongly enough, if...
From one of the world's most respected authorities on precious metals investment--a thoroughly researched volume on the investment prospects for silver, the other gold.
After outperforming virtually all other investments for more than a decade, gold is being reincorporated into the financial...
Haskell is one of the three most influential functional programming languages available today along with Lisp and Standard ML. When used for financial analysis, you can achieve a much-improved level of prediction and clear problem descriptions.
Haskell Financial Data Modeling and Predictive Analytics is a hands-on guide that...
Top options expert Larry Shover returns to discuss how to interpret, and profit from, market volatility
Trading Options in Turbulent Markets, Second Edition skillfully explains the intricacies of options volatility and shows you how to use options to cope, and profit from, market turbulence. Throughout this new...
This concise book empowers all Java developers to master the complexity of the Java thread APIs and concurrency utilities. This knowledge aids the Java developer in writing correct and complex performing multithreaded applications.
Java's thread APIs and concurrency utilities are among its most powerful and challenging...
In recent years, Fourier transform methods have emerged as one of the major methodologies for the evaluation of derivative contracts, largely due to the need to strike a balance between the extension of existing pricing models beyond the traditional Black-Scholes setting and a need to evaluate prices consistently with the market...
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest econometric methods for studying the dynamics of macroeconomic and financial time series. It examines alternative methodological approaches and concepts, including quantile spectra and co-spectra, and explores topics such as non-linear and non-stationary behavior, stochastic...
Growth in the derivatives markets has brought with it an ever-increasing volume and range of interest rate dependent derivative products. To allow profitable, efficient trading in these products, accurate and mathematically sound valuation techniques are required to make pricing, hedging and risk management of the resulting positions possible.
This book provides a detailed accounting of how downside risk can enter a portfolio, and what can be done to identify and prepare for the downside.We take the view that downside risk can be incorporated into current methods of stock valuation and portfolio management.Therefore we introduce commonly used theories in order to show...
Few topics in the information technology (IT) field today generate as much interest as security. Interestingly, the IT world has been struggling with security issues for over 30 years, yet many security problems remain unsolved, unaddressed, and serious. As those responsible for securing systems and networks address security issues...