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Greed is an Equal Opportunity Employer:
How/Why Governments Cause Melt-Downs
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Table of Contents
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0 Foreword & How to Use the "TG2" Series Most Profitably i
0.1 Why the TG2 Series of Books? ii
0.2 What is, and is not, important, and who is this for anyway? iii
0.2.1 Who is this (book/Series) for? iv
0.2.2 Pedagogical issues v
0.2.3 Notation, Grammar, Spelling vi
0.2.4 About Accompanying (free) software, and Commercial Software. vii
0.2.5 About these books and relationship to ARTSchool viii
0.3 Future direction & Road Map for the Series. ix
0.4 About the Authors x
0.4.1 Invitation for Contribution x
1 Introduction to the "TG2… Read Me First" book 1
1.1 Feeds, Screens, and Calculators 2
1.2 What we do for a living 3
PART I: Market Basics
2 Market Basics - Overview 5
2.1 Basics of Finance, Trading, and Business (in the Real World) 5
2.1.1 Business Mandate, and Overview of Strategies & Tools for Profit & Risk 6
2.1.2 Cash is King - "show me the money" 9
2.1.3 Supply/Demand, and Prices 11
2.1.4 The Participants & (Economic) Needs 15
2.1.5 Trading-floor/Trading-operation layout 35
2.1.6 Forecasting vs. Arbitrage & (Forward) Fair Value 41
2.1.7 Spot/Forward Arbitrage Example: 3M-Forward Ferraris 49
2.1.8 Cross-Market Arbitrage Example: Interest Rate Parity 53
2.1.9 Risk and Return 56
2.1.10 The Efficient Frontier and CAPM/APT 65
2.1.11 Holding Period Risk/Return and (Optimal) PaR 69
2.1.12 Reality Impact 76
2.1.13 What Role Does Economics Have in Trading? 78
2.1.14 What Role Does Mathematical Modelling Have in Trading? 81
2.1.15 Market Basics: Overview Summary - The Story so Far 83
3 Market Basics - The Trading Cycle, Trading Discipline, and Management 87
3.1 What/How/Why we trade: Transactions Basics 88
3.1.1 Asset Classes: Equities, IR/FX, and Commodities 88
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Series
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