Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
Traders, Guns & Money is a wry and wickedly comic exposes of the culture, games, and pure deceptions played out every day in trading rooms around the world, usually with other people's money. Whether you move in the financial world yourself, know people who do, or have the money invested in stocks, shares or derivatives, this is a fascinating read guaranteed to make you think
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Liar’s Poker with more lies and more insight,Traders, Guns & Money is a sensational insider’s view of the business of trading and marketing derivatives for a living. It reveals the nature of the business, the players and how the real money is made and lost. An accessible companion, a wise counsel and a great read.A sensational and controversial first-person account of the business of derivatives trading and the financial products industry.Offers a true insider’s view.Funny and poignant, written in a wry and wickedly comic style.Reveals how shareholders, clients, regulators, and the tax paying ordinary public bear most of the risk in the trading rooms.Reveals the story of how one set of clients discovered the perils of unknowns in a derivatives deal.Traders, Guns & Money cleverly weaves together: the dazzling world of derivatives and how to work out what you know, don't know and need to know; an insider’s, expert witness account of the rise and rules of the world of derivatives and the astonishing story of how one set of clients discovered the perils of unknowns in a derivatives deal. Benchmark: Liar’s Poker 0340767006.Das now offers more lies and is set in today’s derivatives market, and Traders Gun's and Money is written not by a journalist but by a world-famous insider.
1Financial WMDs - derivatives demogoguery192Beautiful lies - the 'sell' side533True lies - the 'buy' side874Show me the money - greed lost and regained1215The perfect storm - risk mismanagement by the numbers1536Super models - derivative algorithms1817Games without frontiers - the inverse world of structured products2118Share and share alike - derivative inequity2419Credit where credit is due - fun with CDS and CDO265
