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Get it between 2024-12-31 to 2025-01-07. Additional 3 business days for provincial shipping.
Trader Construction Kit is a comprehensive resource for undergraduate, MBA and Masters of Finance students interested in a career with a bank, hedge fund or financial institution and is a practical guide to developing the skills and techniques employed by professional traders, including: Fundamentally and technically analyzing a market. Assessing the volatility and risk characteristics of the market. Developing a view, an actionable perspective on the future of price. Evaluating directional, spread, option & quantitative trading strategies. Weighing the inherent risk and reward in potential positions. Efficiently executing trades and managing the resulting exposures. Pricing and hedging structured transactions. Additional chapters describe how: The evolutionary state of a market shapes the activities of its inhabitants. The role of a trader varies at different types of financial institutions. A trader's personality forms an integral part of their approach to the market. To survive and thrive on a trading floor. Trader Construction Kit contains a highly detailed case study that applies the lessons learned in each chapter, providing structure and creating continuity through the text. The updated second edition includes a new 23 page appendix introducing important concepts from data science & programming.