Futures-market

This book is a good review of the subject. Regards, Jerry Green, Green Interest Rate Swap Management, http://home.earthlink.net/~green/

This is one of the best books I have read integrating price with volume and OI and trade mix .
It drives home most eloquently the necessity to consider all of the above in analysis and highlights the value of COT reports .
To sum up , one cannot be the same again after having read this book .

The book tells the CBOT history and has tecnical information about the major commodities trader there ( agricultural, financial and energy ), including specifications, top producers and consumers. It helps to understand the market functioning and principal tools, like futures contracts and options, although dont't has useful technics about how to evaluate the prices or the market beaviour. It's a good reference book of futures market.

This book, which was the very first one that introduced me to the works of Edgar Cayce, changed my life dramatically.

WHY IT'S GOOD: It's practical. One of my biggest complaints about the more popular self help books out there is that they tend to be all fluffy, idealistic, super New Age talk without any real, practical advice that you can use. Yeah, it's great to be pummeled to death with the idea that "with your mind," you can do anything you want to do. But in order to change your life, you still need practical solutions you can use. Luckily, this book is one of the rare New Age ones that is a happy balance between New Age ideas and practical wisdom. Even if you think there are some weird concepts in here that you might not cotton to, you will still walk away from it having learned some important practical things you can apply in your own life, like:

1. Setting ideals (instead of goals).

2. Looking at role models for inspiration (instead of "looking deep into yourself" and going, "I think I can, I think I can")

3. And learning to turn negative traits in yourself into something positive (this is a far cry from typical self help books which always tell you that you should only look at the positive in yourself).

This is an excellent book. Don't let its New Age-ness scare you (or the fact that its material was based on the readings of a psychic). ARE Press, the people who published this, produces the most practical, well thought out, and realistic personal growth books on the market today-- better than Chopra, better than Zukav, even better than Weil. You'll find no vague, mumbo-jumbo, pseudo wisdom here, but real down to earth advice. So please buy it! Your life will definitely change for the better.

The Book contains a wealth of well-writen, concise information on issues relevant to portfolio management in emerging markets, including asset allocation, derivatives, and capital asset pricing. It features an extremely rich bibliography for the theorist, and useful data for the practicioner.

Contrary to the academic snobs this book presents a basic overview with enough general content to get you going in this area. If you are looking for a seminal book on the subject full of derivatives and summation signs compounded with footnotes to obscure books whose seminal ideas are now dated, then look elsewhere. In the retrospect the book is now 3 years old. Given that technology and markets have changed the book still remains current. For you techies still having to buy this book maybe you never applied what the author also taught in the book. Maybe a little realization that this book is also geared to make you money should have any potential buyer realize that the stock market is made up of all kinds of folks who even with no education become millionaires. Such is the difference between Europe and America. Great starting point book to move on to next level with.

Is a very good introduction for a Foreign Exchange Market. Specially in futures markets

The book smells like 40 year old books do. Inside are a lot of nuances that the non-novice could appreciate. Granvile was a market master for a time and then fell from glory (FYI) like most do. He still has some good insight and the pros might appreciate that here.

This book on interst rates is a pleasurable read. As a trader of interest rate swaps, I find every book on the topic adds something to my knowledge base, and this was better than most for ease of access. Anyone keen to understand all of the related markets, will also want to know more about credit derivatives.

I highly recommend "Credit Derivatives" (2nd Edition) by Tavakoli. The products and their uses are clearly explained, and ties in relative value to the interest rate market. I concede that the models for this product may be trickier because of documentation risk and data issues, but Tavakoli brings clarity to this topic so any interest rate professional can grasp the products and why investors - even hedge funds - are so keen to use them.

I am a graduate who majored in finance working as a financial analyst. Well, what I should say of this book is that it tells you how the mechanism works in the whole derivatives world in terms of trading and pricing in a comprehensive manner. As a corporate finance and banking finance expert who has recently got interest in the field of derivative securities this book turns out to be a good starting point in understanding derivatives. However, if you want to know more about in this field, you should also spend time on other textbooks and read academic papers. Furthermore, one had better take some empirical exercises especially on derivative pricing by using computer programmes. (A good comprehensive and easy to follow text is Simon Benninga's Financial Modelling with Excel) Also a good statistical and econometric background would be helpful in understanding derivatives. What I find as a shortcoming in this book is that it doesn't provide answers to the end of chapter questions nor does it supply a computer aid material (a disk whatever) even though it is mentioned in the book.