A hands-on guide to the fast and ever-changing world of high-frequency, algorithmic trading Financial markets are undergoing rapid innovation due to the continuing proliferation of computer power and algorithms. These developments have created a new investment discipline called high-frequency...

As the 20th century dawned there was a silent but fateful transformation in the purpose of the American economy. Finance stopped serving industry and twisted industry to serve its own ends. THE SPECULATION ECONOMY shows this reversal of economic priorities, and its sometimes-disastrous...

Since its first publication, Michael J. Mauboussin's popular guide to wise investing has been translated into eight languages and has been named best business book by BusinessWeek and best economics book by Strategy+Business. Now updated to reflect current research and expanded to include new...

A thorough guide to technical analysis methods applied for success in the options market Though still not widely practiced or accepted in the options market, technical analysis is becoming increasingly common. As the practice spreads, traders are discovering how useful technical analysis is for...

The Real Estate Investor's Guide to Financing shows readers how to get the right financial package for the biggest return on their investment. Complete with essential advice on financing and a glossary of investment terms, this is the one guide that will help readers start making real money.

Praise for Wall Street's Buried Treasure "Mr. Houtkin has provided the reader with a wonderful education on a great strategy that has the potential to turn a very limited risk investment into an extraordinarily high return. He makes the critical distinction between penny stocks and serious...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prelude -- Chapter 1 Best Process #1: Adapting to Change -- Emil's Restaurant -- The Single Greatest Barrier to Adaptation -- The Power of Flexible Commitment -- Flexibility and Trading -- The Rebuilding of Maxwell -- The...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Models for Discontinuous Markets -- Risk Models and Model Risk -- Time-Invariant Models and Crisis -- Ergodic Stationarity in Classical Time Series Analysis -- Recalibration Does Not Overcome the Limits of a...

Key Features:Interdisciplinary comments on market microstructure (covering economy, quantitative finance, and econophysics)Covers a very large spectrum of phenomenon: high frequency trading, liquidity monitoring, the Flash Crash, systemic risk, fragmentation, Smart Order Routing, trade...

Hedge Fund Due Diligence provides a step-by-step methodology that will allow you to recognize and avoid questionable hedge funds before its too late. Based on a framework that hedge fund investigative expert Randy Shain has refined over the course of his successful career, this book offers an...