Quantitative finance for dummies
Bell, Steve
Quantitative finance for dummies - New Delhi Wiley India Pvt. Ltd. 2017 - xii, 386 p.
Introduction
Part 1: Getting Started with Quantitative Finance
Chapter 1: Quantitative Finance Unveiled
Chapter 2: Understanding Probability and Statistics
Chapter 3: Taking a Look at Random Behaviours
Part 2: Tackling Financial Instruments
Chapter 4: Sizing Up Interest Rates, Shares and Bonds
Chapter 5: Exploring Options
Chapter 6: Trading Risk with Futures
Part 3: Investigating and Describing Market Behaviour
Chapter 7: Reading the Market's Mood: Volatility
Chapter 8: Analysing All the Data
Chapter 9: Analysing Data Matrices: Principal Components
Part 4: Option Pricing
Chapter 10: Examining the Binomial and Black-Scholes Pricing Models
Chapter 11: Using the Greeks in the Black-Scholes Model
Chapter 12: Gauging Interest-Rate Derivatives
Part 5: Risk and Portfolio Management
Chapter 13: Managing Market Risk
Chapter 14: Comprehending Portfolio Theory
Chapter 15: Measuring Potential Losses: Value at Risk (VaR)
Part 6: Market Trading and Strategy
Chapter 16: Forecasting Markets
Chapter 17: Fitting Models to Data
Chapter 18: Markets in Practice
Part 7: The Part of Tens
Chapter 19: Ten Key Ideas of Quantitative Finance
Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Ace Your Career in Quantitative Finance
Glossary
Index
Description
Quantitative finance is the application of mathematics to investing decisions. Aimed at investors and finance students alike, Quantitative Finance For Dummies is an accessible yet thorough introduction to this complex world. It provides you with a solid understanding of futures, options and risk, and explains the most popular equations, methods, formulas and models (such as the Black-Scholes model) that are applied in quantitative finance.
9788126567942
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Quantitative finance for dummies - New Delhi Wiley India Pvt. Ltd. 2017 - xii, 386 p.
Introduction
Part 1: Getting Started with Quantitative Finance
Chapter 1: Quantitative Finance Unveiled
Chapter 2: Understanding Probability and Statistics
Chapter 3: Taking a Look at Random Behaviours
Part 2: Tackling Financial Instruments
Chapter 4: Sizing Up Interest Rates, Shares and Bonds
Chapter 5: Exploring Options
Chapter 6: Trading Risk with Futures
Part 3: Investigating and Describing Market Behaviour
Chapter 7: Reading the Market's Mood: Volatility
Chapter 8: Analysing All the Data
Chapter 9: Analysing Data Matrices: Principal Components
Part 4: Option Pricing
Chapter 10: Examining the Binomial and Black-Scholes Pricing Models
Chapter 11: Using the Greeks in the Black-Scholes Model
Chapter 12: Gauging Interest-Rate Derivatives
Part 5: Risk and Portfolio Management
Chapter 13: Managing Market Risk
Chapter 14: Comprehending Portfolio Theory
Chapter 15: Measuring Potential Losses: Value at Risk (VaR)
Part 6: Market Trading and Strategy
Chapter 16: Forecasting Markets
Chapter 17: Fitting Models to Data
Chapter 18: Markets in Practice
Part 7: The Part of Tens
Chapter 19: Ten Key Ideas of Quantitative Finance
Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Ace Your Career in Quantitative Finance
Glossary
Index
Description
Quantitative finance is the application of mathematics to investing decisions. Aimed at investors and finance students alike, Quantitative Finance For Dummies is an accessible yet thorough introduction to this complex world. It provides you with a solid understanding of futures, options and risk, and explains the most popular equations, methods, formulas and models (such as the Black-Scholes model) that are applied in quantitative finance.
9788126567942
Options (Finance)--Mathematical models
Finance--Mathematical models
332.015118 / BEL