Real-Time Risk: What Investors Should Know About FinTech, High-Frequency Trading, and Flash Crashes - Hardcover

Aldridge, Irene; Krawciw, Steven

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1119318963 ISBN 13: 9781119318965

Publisher: Wiley, 2017

Synopsis

Risk management solutions for today's high-speed investing environment

Real-Time Risk is the first book to show regular, institutional, and quantitative investors how to navigate intraday threats and stay on-course. The FinTech revolution has brought massive changes to the way investing is done. Trading happens in microsecond time frames, and while risks are emerging faster and in greater volume than ever before, traditional risk management approaches are too slow to be relevant. This book describes market microstructure and modern risks, and presents a new way of thinking about risk management in today's high-speed world. Accessible, straightforward explanations shed light on little-understood topics, and expert guidance helps investors protect themselves from new threats. The discussion dissects FinTech innovation to highlight the ongoing disruption, and to establish a toolkit of approaches for analyzing flash crashes, aggressive high frequency trading, and other specific aspects of the market.

Today's investors face an environment in which computers and infrastructure merge, regulations allow dozens of exchanges to coexist, and globalized business facilitates round-the-clock deals. This book shows you how to navigate today's investing environment safely and profitably, with the latest in risk-management thinking.

• Discover risk management that works within micro-second trading
• Understand the nature and impact of real-time risk, and how to protect yourself
• Learn why flash crashes happen, and how to mitigate damage in advance
• Examine the FinTech disruption to established business models and practices

When technology collided with investing, the boom created stratospheric amounts of data that allows us to plumb untapped depths and discover solutions that were unimaginable 20 years ago. Real-Time Risk describes these solutions, and provides practical guidance for today's savvy investor.

About this title

About the Author

IRENE ALDRIDGE is managing director and quantitative portfolio manager at ABLE Alpha Trading and president of ABLE Markets. She is author of Searching for High-Frequency Trading Opportunities and High-Frequency Trading.

STEVE KRAWCIW is CEO of ABLE Markets, a leader in market microstructure analytics. His experience comes from such firms as McKinsey & Co. and Credit Suisse, and he is coauthor (with Irene Aldridge) of Quant Investor Almanac 2011.

From the Back Cover

Technology is developing and changing the way we live and work more and more every day, and in the financial markets it has created a double-edged sword. Today’s investors are more informed and have more access to a broader range of investments than ever before, but they’re also exposed to unprecedented risk at a moment’s notice. Real-Time Risk shows all types of investors how to fully benefit from the data-rich insight and opportunities cutting-edge technology offers, while protecting assets from an always-on market.

Most investors don’t fully understand how much FinTech has fundamentally changed the face of finance and investing. Do you know there are now twenty-one national security exchanges? Do you know allocating to stocks favored by high-frequency traders will improve a long-term buy-hold strategy? Do you understand how regulation will limit or expand your options tomorrow? This accessible treatment focuses on the impact―both documented and perceived―FinTech disruptions have on companies and how investors can profit from market reactions. FinTech is not only ushering in an unprecedented way of doing business and investing but also establishing its own asset class for investors to grow wealth while these startups continue to disrupt the industry and take market share. This proven authorial team, experts in cutting-edge quantitative and high-frequency trading, fully positions you for success in the new reality of growing wealth by putting at your fingertips the ability to:

• Explore in-depth the blatant and not-so-obvious ways high-frequency trading impacts your investments
• See why market microstructure is no longer just for execution traders and market makers and how long-only strategies suffer by ignoring it
• Develop a balanced, data-driven perspective on global markets to make more informed investment decisions

Navigate today’s investing landscape safely and profitably with Real-Time Risk.

From the Inside Flap

Technology is developing and changing the way we live and work more and more every day, and in the financial markets it has created a double-edged sword. Today's investors are more informed and have more access to a broader range of investments than ever before, but they're also exposed to unprecedented risk at a moment's notice. Real-Time Risk shows all types of investors how to fully benefit from the data-rich insight and opportunities cutting-edge technology offers, while protecting assets from an always-on market.

Most investors don't fully understand how much FinTech has fundamentally changed the face of finance and investing. Do you know there are now twenty-one national security exchanges? Do you know allocating to stocks favored by high-frequency traders will improve a long-term buy-hold strategy? Do you understand how regulation will limit or expand your options tomorrow? This accessible treatment focuses on the impact—both documented and perceived—FinTech disruptions have on companies and how investors can profit from market reactions. FinTech is not only ushering in an unprecedented way of doing business and investing but also establishing its own asset class for investors to grow wealth while these startups continue to disrupt the industry and take market share. This proven authorial team, experts in cutting-edge quantitative and high-frequency trading, fully positions you for success in the new reality of growing wealth by putting at your fingertips the ability to:

• Explore in-depth the blatant and not-so-obvious ways high-frequency trading impacts your investments
• See why market microstructure is no longer just for execution traders and market makers and how long-only strategies suffer by ignoring it
• Develop a balanced, data-driven perspective on global markets to make more informed investment decisions

Navigate today's investing landscape safely and profitably with Real-Time Risk.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119318963
• ISBN 13: 9781119318965
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224