A unique guide to derivative products and hedging strategies for all commodities, examining each of the main OTC and non-OTC products. If offers a perspective on risk management and analysis for established an newer markets. Essential reading for financiers, producers, project managers, lawyers and accountants.

This text addresses early 21st-century advancements in products and models including skew models, volatility contracts, and implementation of generic pricing tools. It also brings the distilled knowledge and experience of an expert Deutsche Bank to your desk.

Books on complex hedging instruments are often more confusing than the instruments themselves. "Hedging Instruments and Risk Management" brings clarity to the topic, giving money managers the straightforward knowledge they need to employ hedging tools and techniques in four key markets - equity, currency, fixed income, and mortgage. Using real-world data and examples, this high-level book shows practitioners how to develop a common set of mathematical and statistical tools for hedging in various markets and then outlines several hedging strateg…

A guide to the theory and practice of hedging, this book describes both financial and physical hedging strategies and programs applicable to most industries. It shows how to use hedging strategies to capitalize on market volatility, while minimizing the effects of unfavorable market swings. The author addresses theories of hedging and cross-hedging, cash-and-carry or repo programs, the perfect hedge and the hedging paradox and also offers comparative approaches supported by examples.

Trying to trade stock, bond, commodity and currency markets without intermarket awareness is like trying to drive a car without looking out the side and rear windows--very dangerous. In this guide to intermarket analysis, the author uses years of experience in technical analysis plus extensive charts to clearly demonstrate the interrelationshps that exist among the various market sectors and their importance. You'll learn how to use activity in surrounding markets in the same way that most people employ traditional technical indicators for dire…

This book provides expert tactics to become and make the most of every swing trade. In Mastering the Trade, veteran trader and educator John Carter shares his hard-won five-point technique for successful swing trading. In addition, Carter helps you move to the next level of confidence by explaining how markets really work and detailing behind-the-scenes market mechanics.

The book explains that instead of asset allocation being set in an isolated and arbitrary fashion, it is in fact the way in which specific hurdle investment returns can be targeted, and that this approach is already in use in the US (and has been for many years). It involves extended and detailed financial analysis of various asset class returns and proposes a five-asset class approach for future use. Opening with a study of the historic asset allocation practice of UK pension funds, the book shows how the current approach has led to the pres…

Performance measurement and attribution are key tools in informing investment decisions and strategies. Performance measurement is the quality control of the investment decision process, enabling money managers to calculate return, understand the behaviour of a portfolio of assets, communicate with clients and determine how performance can be improved. Focusing on the practical use and calculation of performance returns rather than the academic background, Practical Portfolio Performance Measurement and Attribution provides a clear guide to the…

Day trading is "Wall Street's" hottest trend and, in "The Compleat Guide to Day Trading Stocks", famed futures trader and author Jake Bernstein turns his attention, knowledge, and experience to the exciting world of stock trading. Bernstein covers timing systems, trend following systems, breakout systems, and more - all illustrated with chart examples based on intra-day time frames, and supported by results from his meticulous, historically accurate back testing. Basic enough for novice traders - yet with enough detail for the most demanding ma…