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...

March 29, 1900, is considered by many to be the day mathematical finance was born. On that day a French doctoral student, Louis Bachelier, successfully defended his thesis Théorie de la Spéculation at the Sorbonne. The jury, while noting that the topic was "far away from those usually...

Intro -- SPECULATIVEMANAGEMENT: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. THE SPECULATIVE MANAGEMENT OF CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW -- 2. TRANSACTIONAL FINANCE IN LATE-TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA -- 3. SOCIAL...