Trader Construction Kit

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$90.76

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 other financial institution.Trader Construction Kit is a practical guide to developing the skills and techniques employed by professional traders: 

  • 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. 
Trader Construction Kit contains a single, highly detailed case study that incrementally incorporates and applies the lessons learned in each chapter.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.