Financial Trading and Investing

Financial Trading and Investing, Third Edition is an introduction to trading and market microstructure for advanced undergraduate and masters students, exploring alternative markets and highlighting recent regulatory developments. It explains controversial trading tactics, valuation and hedging techniques, and financial utilities and institutions.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 576 pages
Publication date: 26 October 2022
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology

Financial Trading and Investing, Third Edition serves as an invaluable introduction to trading and market microstructure, catering to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students alike. While not requiring a prior foundation in econometrics, the book delves into alternative markets and underscores recent regulatory advancements, implementations, institutions, and debates. It offers comprehensive explanations of contentious trading strategies, including high-frequency trading, dark liquidity pools, fat fingers, insider trading, and flash orders, while emphasizing the interconnectedness between the history of financial regulation and events in financial markets. The text encompasses coverage of valuation and hedging techniques, particularly in the realm of fixed income and derivative securities. Additionally, it includes a dedicated chapter on financial utilities and institutions that offer support services to traders, along with timely updates on regulatory matters. By seamlessly blending theory and application, this book serves as a practical and comprehensive beginner's guide to contemporary investment tools and markets, with a particular focus on trading.

Weight: 1130g
ISBN-13: 9780323909556
Edition number: 3 ed