"The main purpose of this book is to resolve deficiencies and limitations that currently exist when using Technical Analysis (TA). Particularly, TA is being used either by academics as an "economic test" of the weak-form Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) or by practitioners as a…
"In The Value Investors, readers discovered that value investing is not a staid and old-fashioned investment strategy, but is dynamic and ever-evolving. And most especially, they learned how 12 leading investors, each of whom has a unique value perspective, have consistently bea…
"Risk analytics has seen a spike in interest and demand with the quantification of risks and global regulatory requirements. Financial institutions like banks, in particular, have to show evidence of having measured credit, market and operational risks using numbers and models r…
"Essentials of Investments, Twelfth Edition, is intended as a textbook on investment analysis most applicable for a student's first course in investments. The chapters are written in a modular format to give instructors the flexibility to either omit certain chapters or rearrang…
"This book offers an overall general review of internal working of Genetic Algorithms (GAs) in search and optimization, and their use in to find out attractive stock trading strategies"
Introduction to R programming -- Statistics in finance -- Statistical analysis with R -- Time series analysis with R -- Basic theory of finance -- Modern portfolio theory and CAPM -- Interest rate swap and discount factor -- Discrete time model: tree model -- Continuous time mod…
The financial industry has adopted Python at a tremendous rate recently, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems. This hands-on guide helps both developers and quantitative analysts get started with Pyt…
"The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to forecast the rise or fall of st…
Meeting the predictors -- The problem with forecasting in economic theory -- Inside Swiss banking -- Among financial analysts -- Intrinsic value, market value, and the search for information -- The construction of an investment narrative -- The politics of circulating narratives…
Why do financial analysts exist in the market? 'Stories of Capitalism' seeks to find an anthropological explanation to a question economists have failed to answer. Building on recent developments in anthropology and the social studies of finance, it provides the first full-scale…
"The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to forecast the rise or fall of st…
Charles Munger is Warren Buffett decade's long business partner, and his investment filter, jokingly called by Mr. Buffett - the abominable no man. The early pages cover Munger's family history, his framework for investing [wait for the fat pitches, and assess each opportunity u…
Introduction -- Cloud computuing: the new electricity -- Sensors: analog becomes digital -- Decoding the genome: stretching the meaning of life -- Big data: making sense of it all -- Predictive analytics: the end of hit and miss -- Artificial intelligence: computing evolves -- R…
