Financial Trading and Investing

John L. Teall

ISBN 10: 0323909558 / ISBN 13: 9780323909556

Published by Elsevier Science & Technology Nov 2022, 2022

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Neuware - Financial Trading and Investing, Third Edition provides a useful introduction to trading and market microstructure for advanced undergraduate as well as master's students. Without demanding a background in econometrics, the book explores alternative markets and highlights recent regulatory developments, implementations, institutions and debates. The text offers explanations of controversial trading tactics (and blunders) such as high-frequency trading, dark liquidity pools, fat fingers, insider trading and flash orders, emphasizing links between the history of financial regulation and events in financial markets. It includes coverage of valuation and hedging techniques, particularly with respect to fixed income and derivative securities. The text adds a chapter on financial utilities and institutions that provide support services to traders and updates regulatory matters. Combining theory and application, this book provides a practical beginner's introduction to today's investment tools and markets with a special emphasis on trading.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Financial Trading and Investing
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Nov 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323909558
• ISBN 13: 9780323909556
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 194H x 35D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 194 millimeters height by 35 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1176 grams

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Synopsis

Financial Trading and Investing, Third Edition provides a useful introduction to trading and market microstructure for advanced undergraduate as well as master’s students. Without demanding a background in econometrics, the book explores alternative markets and highlights recent regulatory developments, implementations, institutions and debates. The text offers explanations of controversial trading tactics (and blunders) such as high-frequency trading, dark liquidity pools, fat fingers, insider trading and flash orders, emphasizing links between the history of financial regulation and events in financial markets. It includes coverage of valuation and hedging techniques, particularly with respect to fixed income and derivative securities. The text adds a chapter on financial utilities and institutions that provide support services to traders and updates regulatory matters.

Combining theory and application, this book provides a practical beginner's introduction to today's investment tools and markets with a special emphasis on trading.

• Concentrates on trading, trading institutions, markets and the institutions that facilitate and regulate trading activities
• Introduces foundational topics relating to trading and securities markets, including auctions, market microstructure, the roles of information and inventories, behavioral finance, market efficiency, risk, arbitrage, trading technology, trading regulation and ECNs
• Covers market and technology advances and innovations, such as execution algo trading, Designated Market Makers (DMMs), Supplemental Liquidity Providers (SLPs), and the Super Display Book system (SDBK)
• Includes improved pedagogical supplements, including end-of-chapter questions with detailed solutions at the end of the text, and useful appendices
• Student resources available online: https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/book-companion/9780323909556
• Instructor resources available for request by qualified professors: https://educate.elsevier.com/9780323909556

About the Author

John Teall is a visiting professor at LUISS Business School in Rome, Italy. He is a former member of the American Stock Exchange and has served as a consultant to Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and other financial institutions.