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Quantitative finance for dummies /
"Quantitative Finance For Dummies offers plain-English guidance on making sense of applying mathematics to investing decisions. With this complete guide, you'll gain a solid understanding of futures, options and risk, and get up-to-speed on the most popular equations, methods, formulas and...
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Chichester, West Sussex :
John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
[2016]
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| Series: | --For dummies.
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| 500 | |a "Learning made easy"--Cover. | ||
| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Getting started with quantitative finance. Quantitative finance unveiled ; Understanding probability and statistics ; Taking a look at random beheviours -- Tackling financial instruments. Sizing up interest rates, shares and bonds ; Exploring options ; Trading risk with futures -- Investigating and describing market behaviour. Reading the market's mood: volatility ; Analysing all the data ; Analysing data matrices: principal components -- Option pricing. Examining the binomial and Black-Scholes pricing models ; Using the Greeks in the Black-Scholes model ; Gauging interest-rate derivatives -- Risk and portfolio management. Managing market risk ; Comprehending portfolio theory ; Measuring potential losses: value at risk (VaR) -- Market trading and strategy. Forecasting markets ; Fitting models to data ; Markets in practice -- The part of tens: Ten key ideas of quantitative finance ; Ten ways to ace your career in quantitative finance. | |
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