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The Definitive Guide to Futures Trading (Volume II)
Larry Williams
$31.93

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This concluding volume of Larry Williams' revolutionary work. Includes over 50 pages of Larry's personal day trading knowledge. A money management technique to give you a 99% probability of doubling your money. The Ultimate Oscillator, the Zero Balance Method, loads more. This book is filled from cover to cover with usable hands-on trading strategies and tools.

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The Handbook of Stock Index Futures and Options
Frank J. Fabozzi
$18.63

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Index Options & Futures: The Complete Guide
Patrick C. Carlyle
$16.00

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Options and futures have become indispensable strategic tools for almost every type of investor, from individuals to blue-chip institutions. This comprehensive guide is an all-purpose atlas of the world of index options and futures. It answers the many questions investors have about them, covering all stock index futures contracts, how they differ from one another, and how managers can profit by knowing those differences. The book shows how to use them to improve performance and lower transaction costs; earn riskless arbitrage profits; create a "portfolio insurance" policy, simultaneously lower risk and enhance yield; and much more. The science of options and futures valuation is explained in a common-sense style, and uses realistic examples to illustrate their strategic applications. The book is a wealth of practical advice for readers who want to set up, run and evaluate a variety of trading strategies.

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Understanding Klci Stock Index Futures
Fred Tham
$84.95

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The Theory and Practice of Futures Markets
Jean E. Cordier
$32.80

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While this book was received new, in cellophane, the glue used in the binding didn't age well. As soon as I opened the book, the binding started to come apart and the pages came loose.

By the way, I was looking for an introductory book on futures markets, and this was recommended. My mistake. I can tell now that it's over my head. It's a graduate level text book, and my MBA isn't in Risk Management.

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Index futures arbitrage before and after the introduction of sixteenths on the NYSE [An article from: Journal of Empirical Finance]
M. Martens
$10.95

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Empirical Finance, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We find that market efficiency increased and the arbitrage link between index futures and the stock market strengthened after June 24, 1997, when the New York Stock Exchange reduced the minimum change for stock prices and quotes from an eighth to a sixteenth of a dollar. There has been a substantial increase in the number of arbitrage trades reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since the reduction in the minimum price increment. The average number of stocks traded and the average dollar amount underlying each arbitrage trade increases and decreases, respectively. The average index futures mispricing error (MPE) that triggers arbitrage is lower and reverts to zero more quickly.

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Stock Index Futures: A Guide for Traders, Investors and Analysts
Neil S. Weiner
$79.83

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Trading With Confluence: A Risk-Based Approach to Trading Equity Index Futures
CRM Michael Toma
$18.76

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"Success is all about managing risk, not profits."

In Trading With Confluence, Michael Toma takes a unique risk-based approach to succeeding in trading futures. "The one single reason that separates success and failure in trading is the ability to focus on and assess risk", says Toma, who admits throughout the book that his risk management expertise, not his trading skills, propelled his success as a trader. The author provides all the information needed to succeed including his ten most profitable trading setups in an easy-to-understand format. The author also explains his unique methodology on how to self-assess your own trading performance by using key performance indicators specific to trading futures.

Additional topics in the book include:

-The importance of managing risk and how to identify high probability opportunities.
-The 'Big 4 and Little 3' - the 7 key elements to trading success.
-Step-by-step instruction on how to setup your trading business.
-How to create your trading plan and trade journal.
-Learn how to measure and assess your trading activity like a professional risk manager.
-Development of key performance indicators allowing you to monitor your success and identify areas of improvement.
-Learning the 'graduation plan' method of managing your trading capital.
-Explanation of high probability setups to use immediately.
-Specific tips on how to overcome the demons of trading psychology.
-A chapter on the realities of trading and how to minimize mistakes.
-Characteristics of a successful trading coach and how to select the right one for you.

Trading With Confluence provides trade setups you can use from the 1st day you start your trading business and will help reduce the learning curve time that most traders struggle through before becoming consistently profitable.

After spending several years as a corporate risk manager, Michael Toma takes the same risk principles used in his teaching of risk theory and combines it with his passion for trading into a no-nonsense yet intuitive understanding of why markets move through areas of 'confluence'. In Trading With Confluence, Toma provides the trader with all they need to know to trade e-mini futures by minimizing risk of capital. Packed with valuable trade setups, trading templates and platform charting tips, Trading With Confluence is a must read for the novice trader hungry for success trading the e-mini futures markets.

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Issues Involving the Use of the Futures Markets to Invest in Commodity Indexes.: An article from: General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
Gale Reference Team
$9.95

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This digital document is an article from General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony, published by Stonehenge International on March 1, 2009. The length of the article is 872 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Issues Involving the Use of the Futures Markets to Invest in Commodity Indexes.
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony (Report)
Date: March 1, 2009
Publisher: Stonehenge International
Volume: 2009 Issue: 3 Page: NA

Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning

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The innovations of e-mini contracts and futures price volatility components: The empirical investigation of S&P 500 stock index futures [An article from: ... Financial Markets, Institutions & Money]
M.C. Wang
$10.95

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The effect of the initiation of e-mini stock index futures (ESIFs) on the volatility components of S&P 500 stock index futures is herein investigated. The study decomposes S&P 500 stock index-related observed volatilities into unobserved fundamental volatility and transitory noise and utilizes the decomposition to test two hypotheses: the ''clientele factor hypothesis'' and the ''information adjustment hypothesis''. The first hypothesis proposes that the ESIFs attract more noisy traders who prefer trading the friendly-size futures contracts. The second one proposes that the innovations of ESIFs improve the information flow of the futures markets. Using a stochastic volatility model, the empirical results are consistent with both of our proposed hypotheses.