books about: derivatives

books about: derivatives

books:

Derivatives

A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation

Richard Bookstaber

Wiley, 2007

Want to understand the current financial crisis?
Bookstaber has written a cogent, understandable and witty guide to the structural and human underpinnings of the current financial crisis. While this book requires thoughtful reading, it does not assume that the reader is technically savvy about markets or the ...

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Roger Lowenstein

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2001

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
An excellent read & indeed very relevant in today's' times when we see fiascos in the financial markets repeated almost every day. I expect another book from Roger Lowenstein soon on Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill Lynch & the state of financial markets (today). God ...

Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives

Satyajit Das

FT Press, 2006

Top Notch book. great companion read to David Roche's New Monetarism
I picked up this book after finished reading David Roche's New Monetarism. What a GEM!!!! First of all, of all the economic commentators on the scene, nobody, I repeat NOBODY got it right about the cause of the current U.S/W.Europe economic problem (hint: subprime is ...

Stochastic Calculus for Finance I: The Binomial Asset Pricing Model (Springer Finance)

Steven E. Shreve

Springer, 2005

Great balance between technical and intuitive
This book seemed to strike the perfect balance between going through the necessary math and getting the points across without pushing the non-PhD reader overboard. This is a great book for semi-mathematical types who practice in finance, or for mathematicians who are ...

Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options (Wiley Finance)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wiley, 1997

Revised edition?
Books-A_Million lists a revised edition, ISBN: 0471353477, with December, 2008, as a publication date. Their advance order price is $76.95.

Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives with Derivagem CD (7th Edition) (Prentice Hall Series in Finance)

JOHN C HULL

Prentice Hall, 2008

Great intro
I started not knowing a "put" from a "call," but I needed to know a fair bit about how financial engineers (coming from a family of PEs, I'm still not used to that term) use math. This has been the introduction I wanted - not the advanced stuff, but enough to help me ...

All About Derivatives (All About)

Michael Durbin

McGraw-Hill, 2005

An Excellent Introduction to Derivatives
This is an extremely well-written introduction to derivatives. I used it as a supplement to a graduate course in Risk Management which had assigned Don Chase's classic book. I found this book to be much more readable, with less formal notation and fewer equations to ...

Hedge Hunters: Hedge Fund Masters on the Rewards, the Risk, and the Reckoning

Katherine Burton

Bloomberg Press, 2007

Reader-friendly interviews with hedge-fund legends
What are the qualities of a successful hedge fund manager? To answer that question, Katherine Burton profiled industry leaders who have outperformed their peers over time. Her book provides readers with a sweeping introduction to the hedge fund industry's top ...

Trading Option Greeks: How Time, Volatility, and Other Pricing Factors Drive Profit

Dan Passarelli

Bloomberg Press, 2008

To Truly Understand Options, Greeks and Options Pricing
As a former Market Maker and Floor Trader, Dan has written a very thorough, easy-to-understand book explaining complex ideas. If, for example, you have only bought Calls and Puts and/or sold Covered Calls, his book will give you the understanding of pricing and ...

Derivatives Markets (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Series in Finance)

Robert L. McDonald

Addison Wesley, 2005

Book is good; Price is not
I was recommended this text book by the study material I was using to prepare the acturial exam FM. Then I came to check this book here and I found out that the price here is way too much higher. With this price, you can buy both the text book and its solution mannual ...

City of Bones (Mortal Instruments)

Cassandra Clare

Margaret K. McElderry, 2007

Pleasantly Surprised
I have to admit, I had my doubts about this book prior to reading it. There have been numerous bad reviews so I was prepared for the worst. Oddly enough, I loved this story. I devoured it in a night, and rushed out to book store the very next day to purchase City of ...

Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Series in Finance)

John Marthinsen

Addison Wesley, 2008

Lessons we can learn from debacles
This book features examples of both good and bad uses of derivatives. All the scandals we read about in the newspaper are a result of certain factors which we can learn from. It is clear that each scandal has a lesson for us to learn from, but derivatives as financial ...

Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series)

Marek Capinski, Tomasz Zastawniak

Springer, 2003

Joining the chorus
I can only echo the other reviewers. As far as I can tell this book has no serious competition. This is an excellent introduction to mathematical finance for those with a solid undergraduate level understanding of higher math but without graduate level exposure. I ...

Arbitrage Theory in Continuous Time (Oxford Finance Series)

Tomas Bjork

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

intuitive introduction to option pricing
I agree with several reviewers above that the book is written in a style very helpful for students to understand the material. It doesn't contain a lot of small details of financial markets like Hull's book, but the approach is very systematic. The derivations of ...

Schaum's Outline of PreCalculus, 2nd Ed. (Schaum's Outlines)

Fred Safier

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Great for studying for COMPASS math placement test
Although this would also make a nice supplement for college students taking Precalculus, it really shines as a test preparation manual for students preparing to take the COMPASS math placement test that is required in many junior colleges. It starts with very basic ...