Fundamentals of Financial Instruments: An Introduction to Stocks, Bonds, Foreign Exchange,and Derivatives

Fundamentals of Financial Instruments deals with the global financial markets and the instruments in which they trade. While most books on finance tend to be heavily mathematical, this book emphasizes the concepts in a logical, sequential fashion, introducing mathematical concepts only at the relevant times. As a result, the reader gains conceptual clarity reinforced by just the right level of technical detail to ensure a comprehensive exposure to the skills needed in the financial world.

The Handbook of Trading: Strategies for Navigating and Profiting from Currency, Bond, and Stock Markets

Greg N. Gregoriou is a professor of finance in the School of Business and Economics at the State University of New York (Plattsburgh). He is co-editor of the Journal of Derivatives and Hedge Funds and an editorial board member of the Journal of Wealth Management and the Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions. His books with McGraw-Hill include The Credit Derivatives Handbook, The VaR Modeling Handbook, and The Risk Modeling Evaluation Handbook. He lives in Plattsburgh, NY.

Credit Derivatives: Trading & Management of Credit & Default Risk (Wiley Frontiers in Finance)

Written by some of the industry's leading names, this book provides a comprehensive overview of this increasingly important financial instrument

Financial Econometrics Modeling: Derivatives Pricing, Hedge Funds and Term Structure Models

This book proposes new tools and models to price options, assess market volatility, and investigate the market efficiency hypothesis. In particular, it considers new models for hedge funds and derivatives of derivatives, and adds to the literature of testing for the efficiency of markets both theoretically and empirically.

Options Futures and Other Derivatives 6th Edition

Designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice, this successful book is regarded as "the bible" in trading rooms throughout the world. The books covers both derivatives markets and risk management, including credit risk and credit derivatives; forward, futures, and swaps; insurance, weather, and energy derivatives; and more. For options traders, options analysts, risk managers, swaps traders, financial engineers, and corporate treasurers.