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Theory of Markov Processes (Dover Books on Mathematics) By E B Dynkin : the book

An investigation of the logical foundations of the theory behind Markov random processes, this text explores subprocesses, transition functions, and conditions for boundedness and continuity. Rather than focusing on probability measures individually, the work explores connections between functions. An elementary grasp of the theory of Markov processes is assumed. 1961 edition.

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MIDAS Technical Analysis: A VWAP Approach to Trading and Investing in Today's Markets By Andrew Coles, David Hawkins : the book

This book provides a new, powerful twist to MIDAS technical analysis, a trading method developed by the late Paul Levine. The authors show how to employ MIDAS in trading, from recognizing set ups to identifying price targets. The book explains the basics of MIDAS before demonstrating how to apply it in different time frames. Further, it extrapolates how MIDAS can be used with other more conventional indicators, such as DeMark or moving averages. In addition to introducing new indicators that the authors have created, the book also supplies new computer codes.

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Managing Hedge Fund Risk and Financing: Adapting to a New Era By David P. Belmont : the book

The ultimate guide to dealing with hedge fund risk in a post-Great Recession world

Hedge funds have been faced with a variety of new challenges as a result of the ongoing financial crisis. The simultaneous collapse of major financial institutions that were their trading counterparties and service providers, fundamental and systemic increases in market volatility and illiquidity, and unrelenting demands from investors to redeem their hedge fund investments have conspired to make the climate for hedge funds extremely uncomfortable. As a result, many funds have failed or been forced to close due to poor performance. Managing Hedge Fund Risk and Financing: Adapting to a New Era brings together the many lessons learned from the recent crisis.

Advising hedge fund managers and CFOs on how to manage the risk of their investment strategies and structure relationships to best insulate their firms and investors from the failures of financial counterparties, the book looks in detail at the various methodologies for managing hedge fund market, credit, and operational risks depending on the hedge fund's investment strategy. Also covering best practice ISDA, Prime Brokerage, Fee and Margin Lock Up, and including tips for Committed Facility lending contracts, the book includes everything you need to know to learn from the events of the past to inform your future hedge fund dealings.

• Shows how to manage hedge fund risk through the application of financial risk modelling and measurement techniques as well as the structuring of financial relationships with investors, regulators, creditors, and trading counterparties
• Written by a global finance expert, David Belmont, who worked closely with hedge fund clients during the crisis and experienced first hand what works
• Explains how to profit from the financial crisis
• In the wake of the Financial Crisis there have been calls for more stringent management of hedge fund risk, and this timely book offers comprehensive guidelines for CFOs looking to ensure world-class levels of corporate governance.

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Stock Market Strategies That Work by Jake Bernstein : the book

Making significant money in the stock market isn't a given. However, investors can greatly increase their odds of success by knowing the basics of how the market works and**more important**how to trade profitably in the market.

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William O'Neil, "How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times and Bad, Fourth Edition" : the book

Anyone can learn to invest wisely with this bestselling investment system!

Through every type of market, William J. O’Neil’s national bestseller, How to Make Money in Stocks, has shown over 2 million investors the secrets to building wealth. O’Neil’s powerful CAN SLIM® Investing System—a proven 7-step process for minimizing risk and maximizing gains—has influenced generations of investors.

Based on a major study of market winners from 1880 to 2009, this expanded edition gives you:

- Proven techniques for finding winning stocks before they make big price gains

- Tips on picking the best stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs to maximize your gains

- 100 new charts to help you spot today’s most profitable trends.

PLUS strategies to help you avoid the 21 most common investor mistakes!

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Start Day Trading Now: A Quick and Easy Introduction to Making Money While Managing Your Risk By Michael Sincere : the book

Are you intimidated by day trading? Think it's only for the select few who are savvy with stocks or are financial savants? Well, think again, because anyone can master day trading--and once you learn the basic techniques, it's possible to make a boatload of money! The flip side: if you don't know what you're doing, you can lose your shirt.

In this entry-level guide to day trading, MarketWatch columnist and financial journalist Michael Sincere assumes you know nothing. Zip. Zero. Inside, he shows you how to get started and breaks day trading down by clearly explaining:

• What computer equipment you'll need
• How much money is required
• The technical jargon of day trading
• Key strategies you'll employ while trading
• How you can manage risk

Most important, Sincere lets you in on the biggest secret of all: how to master the mind game of day trading.

Thousands of day traders have watched their bank accounts balloon thanks to Wall Street. Now you can get into the market and enter their coveted ranks.

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Jürgen Franke, "Statistics of Financial Markets: An Introduction, 4th edition" : the book

Now in its fourth edition, this book offers a detailed yet concise introduction to the growing field of statistical applications in finance. The reader will learn the basic methods of evaluating option contracts, analyzing financial time series, selecting portfolios and managing risks based on realistic assumptions about market behavior. The focus is both on the fundamentals of mathematical finance and financial time series analysis, and on applications to given problems concerning financial markets, thus making the book the ideal basis for lectures, seminars and crash courses on the topic. For this new edition the book has been updated and extensively revised and now includes several new aspects, e.g. new chapters on long memory models, copulae and CDO valuation. Practical exercises with solutions have also been added. Both R and Matlab Code, together with the data, can be downloaded from the book’s product page and Quantnet :: Start

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Professional Stock Trading: System Design and Automation by Mark R. Conway : the book

Learn the art and science of trading systems from professional speculators. The authors share powerful long and short trading strategies in TradeStation that span all time frames, including over one hundred annotated charts with commentary and rationale. The book contains a complete implementation of a professional trading platform, including dozens of TradeStation strategies, indicators, and functions with 64 pages of EasyLanguage code. Further, advanced trading techniques such as pair trading and float trading are explained. These systems are integrated into a fully automated framework for position sizing and trade management. Finally, follow the authors as they track their stock selections throughout the week in real time. Professional Stock Trading is a practical blueprint for the entrepreneur who has the desire, ambition, and intensity to enter the trading business. In a scientific manner, a trader learns how to master the technical elements of the business and integrate them into a disciplined approach. The book ends with a full-scale implementation of a professional trading platform. Swing traders, day traders, and investors who aspire to a greater understanding of the stock market will welcome this book.

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Naked Forex: high-probability techniques for trading without indicators by Alex Nekritin, Walter Peters : the book

A streamlined and highly effective approach to trading without indicators

Most forex traders rely on technical analysis books written for stock, futures, and option traders. However, long before computers and calculators, traders were trading naked. Naked trading is the simplest (and oldest) trading method. It's simply trading without technical indicators, and that is exactly what this book is about.

Traders who use standard technical indicators focus on the indicators. Traders using naked trading techniques focus on the price chart. Naked trading is a simple and superior way to trade and is suited to those traders looking to quickly achieve expertise with a trading method.

• Offers a simpler way for traders to make effective decisions using the price chart
• Based on coauthor Walter Peters method of trading and managing money almost exclusively without indicators
• Coauthor Alexander Nekritin is the CEO and President of TradersChoiceFX, one of the largest Forex introducing brokers in the world

Naked Forex teaches traders how to profit the simple naked way!

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Douglas A. Kass, "Doug Kass on the Market: A Life on TheStreet" : the book

Build a bulletproof portfolio with advice from a top market expert

Doug Kass on the Market: A Life on TheStreet™ provides investment advice and guidance from one of the most renowned traders in the world. Author Doug Kass distills his years of experience as a hedge fund manager and infamous short seller to share the theory, technique, and intuition that built his reputation and his portfolio. Anecdotes about interactions with Wall Street′s most famous names, including Buffett, Cramer, and Cooperman, highlight tricks of the trade, essential value investor insight, and the secrets to being a smart short.

Doug Kass′s reputation as a savvy investor is well–earned and widely recognized. His work on Wall Street gained him heavyweight status, and the friendship, the respect, and the ear of some of the biggest names in finance. As a CNBC regular and 2013 Buffet Bear, Kass is widely known as a trusted source of wisdom and profitable insight. In Doug Kass on the Market, readers learn valuable lessons that that will help them make smarter investment decisions. Kass lists the most important things to know when evaluating a possible long or short investment, and explains the things you′re not doing to optimize your portfolio. Topics include:

Going against the grain

Data versus instinct

Valuation, bubbles, and momentum

Interest rates, inflation, and the Fed

The book also describes how to short a stock properly without losing out and discusses the C–suite conversations that fund managers would never tell a lay shareholder. Kass′s record proves the value of his acumen, and this book contains a comprehensive account of his talent and techniques. All investors deserve a chance at a more robust portfolio, and Doug Kass on the Market provides the information and guidance that can make that happen.