Quantitative finance for dummies

Introduction Part 1: Getting Started with Quantitative Finance Chapter 1: Quantitative Finance Unveiled Chapter 2: Understanding Probability and Statistics Chapter 3: Taking a Look at Random Behaviours Part 2: Tackling Financial Instruments Chapter 4: Sizing Up Interest Rates, Shares and Bonds Chapter 5: Exploring Options Chapter 6: Trading Risk with Futures Part 3: Investigating and Describing Market Behaviour Chapter 7: Reading the Market's Mood: Volatility Chapter 8: Analysing All the Data Chapter 9: Analysing Data Matrices: Principal Components Part 4: Option Pricing Chapter 10: Examining the Binomial and Black-Scholes Pricing Models Chapter 11: Using the Greeks in the Black-Scholes Model Chapter 12: Gauging Interest-Rate Derivatives Part 5: Risk and Portfolio Management Chapter 13: Managing Market Risk Chapter 14: Comprehending Portfolio Theory Chapter 15: Measuring Potential Losses: Value at Risk (VaR) Part 6: Market Trading and Strategy Chapter 16: Forecasting Markets Chapter 17: Fitting Models to Data Chapter 18: Markets in Practice Part 7: The Part of Tens Chapter 19: Ten Key Ideas of Quantitative Finance Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Ace Your Career in Quantitative Finance Glossary Index

Description Quantitative finance is the application of mathematics to investing decisions. Aimed at investors and finance students alike, Quantitative Finance For Dummies is an accessible yet thorough introduction to this complex world. It provides you with a solid understanding of futures, options and risk, and explains the most popular equations, methods, formulas and models (such as the Black-Scholes model) that are applied in quantitative finance.