A primer for financial engineering: financial signal processing and electronic trading

This book bridges the fields of finance, mathematical finance and engineering, and is suitable for engineers and computer scientists who are looking to apply engineering principles to financial markets. The book builds from the fundamentals, with the help of simple examples, clearly explaining the concepts to the level needed by an engineer, while showing their practical significance. Topics covered include an in depth examination of market microstructure and trading, a detailed explanation of High Frequency Trading and the 2010 Flash Crash, risk analysis and management, popular trading strategies and their characteristics, and High Performance DSP and Financial Computing. The book has many examples to explain financial concepts, and the presentation is enhanced with the visual representation of relevant market data. It provides relevant MATLAB codes for readers to further their study.--

Front Cover; A Primer for Financial Engineering: Financial Signal Processing and Electronic Trading; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Disclaimer; Chapter 2: Financial Markets and Instruments; 2.1 Structure of the Markets; 2.2 Financial Instruments; 2.2.1 Stocks; 2.2.2 Options; 2.2.3 Futures Contracts; 2.2.4 Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs); 2.2.5 Currency Pairs; 2.2.6 Fixed Income Securities; 2.3 Summary; Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Quantitative Finance; 3.1 Stock Price Models; 3.1.1 Geometric Brownian Motion Model.

3.1.2 Models with Local and Stochastic Volatilities3.1.3 Discrete-Time Price Models and Return; 3.2 Asset Returns; 3.2.1 Expected Return, Volatility, and Cross-Correlation of Returns; 3.2.2 Effect of Sampling Frequency on Volatility; 3.2.3 Jumps in the Returns; 3.3 Modern Portfolio Theory; 3.3.1 Portfolio Return and Risk; 3.3.1.1 Two-Asset Portfolio; 3.3.1.2 Multi-asset Portfolio; 3.3.2 Portfolio Optimization; 3.4 Capital Asset Pricing Model; 3.4.1 Capital Market Line; 3.4.2 Market Portfolio; 3.4.3 Beta of an Asset; 3.4.4 Volatility in CAPM; 3.4.5 Expected Return in CAPM.

3.4.6 Security Market Line3.5 Relative Value and Factor Models;…