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ART is staffed by former heads of trading and the like from well known investment banks and hedge funds. 

We support the financial services industry by offering assistance, training, books, software, and consulting that aim to optimise risk-adjusted returns.  Please browse our web site, and do let us know if there is anything we could do for you, or your risk-adjusted returns.  And remember "if you don't see it ... ask for it".  

Key products and services Include:

Consulting

Research

ARTSchool

TG2Books

ARTWare

ARTicles Monographs

ART continues integration with ArbMan to provide the full range of ART's products and services along with ArbMan's trading and advisory facilities for trade idea generation and direct investments in directional and arbitrage strategies.   

Please visit the ARTShop  to check for online discounts and special offers.

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now in London UK &Toronto CAD

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ART Consulting including ARBLab (the Arbitrage Laboratory) providing real world analysis of optimal strategies for holding period risk/P&L:

Synthetic vs. Outright Yield Curve Slope Options

P&L Implications of VaR/Economic Capital

Optimal Rebalancing Strategy and Market Condition Dependent Risk Limits

Bonds/Swaps/Futures Funding Arbitrage

Historical Volatility vs. Implied Volatility Strategies - Part 1

     ... see more here.  

   ARTicles Monographs, Down-to-earth monographs targeted at a wide audience on a variety of market, trading, and "interesting" phenomena:

ARTBooks - A Trader's Guide To ... The Series: the definitive reference set for market professionals, by market professionals.  Detailed information about the Series (including extracts, ToC's, Indices, etc) is available at: 

A Trader's Guide to Options - Volume 1: Products, Pricing, Structuring, 1st of multi-volume set for options trading, sales, risk management ... written by heads of trading, for market professionals and real world P&L. Details here (TG2 Options Vol - 1) , with ToC, Index, extracts, and software list, etc

        ... possibly the best options books/series ... EVER! ... with real trading, and much "reality impact".

A Trader's Guide to Bonds, Swaps, and IR Instruments - Volume 1: Products, Pricing, Structuring  complimentary copy of ARTicles: Copulas in 10 Words or Less, only with TG2 purchases, see TG2Specials .. ARTShop

A Trader's Guide To Quantitative Methods (Don’t Panic): Monte Carlo Methods

TG2 Exotic Options Mathematica® Notebook - "very cool" Complementary Edition for "good" clients, or for those making eligible purchases at the ARTShop

A Trader's Guide To Quantitative Methods (Don’t Panic): Basic Maths&Stats    

A Trader's Guide To ... Read Me 1st (please) PI & PII: the "core" book in the Series

TG2Reviews and trader's comments are excellent and found HERE. Such as:

   "... The material is really unique. One really feels that the authors have lived the

         material and have been in the trenches   -   excellent and one-of-a-kind!"   

         Head of Prop Trading at a global trading house

ARTSchool:   (Updated Dec/15) public schedule released, for trading, valuation, and risk seminars for market professionals by market professionals with focus on real world P&L:

Winter/Spring 2015 schedule here, click here to "vote" for titles/venues of your choice.

TG2 Arbitrage Trading   ...  learn how to find, "prove", and trade real world arbs

ARTSchool Seminar: A Trader's Guide to Trading/Strategy P&L Simulation   

       ...  learn how to build and profit by simulating entire trading strategies, with all rebalances, real world effects (trans costs, liquidity, credit, etc).

ARTSchool e-Seminars, - Fully interactive-live/video seminars

e-Study: the most cost effective packages for the best real world P&L oriented trading/risk seminars can save over 50%.

Specials: "ValuePack" & "Comprehensive" in-house seminars, & Special Offers

ARTicles  (Login) (Updated Dec/15):

ARTicles:  Financial Forecasting vs. Climate Forecasting  .Comparison of similarities and dissimilarities in issues of financial models and forecasting vs. climate models and forecasting .... financial markets are "easier", and more "credible".

ARTicles: Greed is an Equal Opportunity Employer - How/Why Governments Cause Melt-Downs.  This ARTicle is available as both a (free) "short note", and as monograph of more than 100 pages in our ARTBooks series, providing a down-to-earth explanation of the US mortgage and derivatives instruments and markets and interaction of political and financial forces leading to the 2007/2008 "melt-down".  The monograph is free with any purchase (see details here).

Free ARTicles: Copulas in 10 Words or Less, only with TG2 purchases ...  ARTShop

ARTicles: Static Hedging & Structuring 101 - Using Maxima® : free "live" notebook/calculator showing basic exotic options static replication & structuring.

ARTicles: Credit Amortising Default Swaps - Part 1

ARTicles: Arb101: Index Futures & Interest Rate Parity Arb Calculator

     ... and many more, see list here.

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