Within 6 months of beginning their careers full of promise and hope, most traders are literally out of money and out of trading. This work reduces the likelihood that you may have to pay this traders' tuition, by detailing a market-proven program for weathering those first few months and becoming a profitable trader from the beginning.

Relives the author's journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. This book details his adventures in this field - analyzing the incompatible personas of traders and quants, and discussing the dissimilar nature of knowledge in physics and finance.

Talks about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it. This book enables readers to learn about investors, brokers, dealers, arbitrageurs, retail traders, rogue traders, and gamblers; exchanges, boards of trade, dealer networks, ECNs, crossing markets, and pink sheets.

Picking up where Liar's Poker left off (literally, in the bond dealer's desks of Salomon Brothers) the story of Long-Term Capital Management is of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market and, like alchemists, create limitless wealth for themselves and their partners.

Describes the theory and practice of corporate finance. This book shows how managers use financial theory to solve practical problems and as a way of learning how to respond to change by showing not just how but why companies and management act as they do.

A graduate-level text which describes the recent dramatic changes that have taken place in the way that researchers analyze economic and financial time series. It explores such important innovations as vector regression, nonlinear time series models and the generalized methods of moments.