Practical .NET for Financial Markets

Practical .NET for Financial Markets
Author: Vivek Shetty
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2006-11-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1430201479

* Hardcore .NET solutions for advanced, distributed financial applications. * Fascinating insight into operation of Equity markets and the challenges this poses for technology solutions – you do not have to be an equity market insider to use this book. * Examines next generation trading challenges, and potential solutions using .NET 2.0 and emerging technology, such as Avalon, Indigo and Longhorn.

Practical C# and WPF For Financial Markets

Practical C# and WPF For Financial Markets
Author: Jack Xu
Publisher: UniCAD
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0979372550

Practical C# and WPF for Financial Markets provides a complete explanation of .NET programming in quantitative finance. It demonstrates how to implement quant models and back-test trading strategies. It pays special attention to creating business applications and reusable C# libraries that can be directly used to solve real-world problems in quantitative finance. The book contains: • Overview of C#, WPF programming, data binding, and MVVM pattern, which is necessary to create MVVM compatible .NET financial applications. • Step-by-step approaches to create a variety of MVVM compatible 2D/3D charts, stock charts, and technical indicators using my own chart package and Microsoft chart control. • Introduction to free market data retrieval from online data sources using .NET interfaces. These data include EOD, real-time intraday, interest rate, foreign exchange rate, and option chain data. • Detailed procedures to price equity options and fixed-income instruments, including European/American/Barrier options, bonds, and CDS, as well as discussions on related topics such as cash flows, term structures, yield curves, discount factors, and zero-coupon bonds. • Introduction to linear analysis, time series analysis, and machine learning in finance, which covers linear regression, PCA, SVM, and neural networks. • In-depth descriptions of trading strategy development and back-testing, including strategies for single stock trading, stock pairs trading, and trading for multi-asset portfolios.

C# for Financial Markets

C# for Financial Markets
Author: Daniel J. Duffy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 866
Release: 2013-03-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470030089

A practice-oriented guide to using C# to design and program pricing and trading models In this step-by-step guide to software development for financial analysts, traders, developers and quants, the authors show both novice and experienced practitioners how to develop robust and accurate pricing models and employ them in real environments. Traders will learn how to design and implement applications for curve and surface modeling, fixed income products, hedging strategies, plain and exotic option modeling, interest rate options, structured bonds, unfunded structured products, and more. A unique mix of modern software technology and quantitative finance, this book is both timely and practical. The approach is thorough and comprehensive and the authors use a combination of C# language features, design patterns, mathematics and finance to produce efficient and maintainable software. Designed for quant developers, traders and MSc/MFE students, each chapter has numerous exercises and the book is accompanied by a dedicated companion website, www.datasimfinancial.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=196&sid=f30022095850dee48c7db5ff62192b34, providing all source code, alongside audio, support and discussion forums for readers to comment on the code and obtain new versions of the software.

Guide to Financial Markets

Guide to Financial Markets
Author: Marc Levinson
Publisher: The Economist
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2018-07-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1541742516

The revised and updated 7th edition of this highly regarded book brings the reader right up to speed with the latest financial market developments, and provides a clear and incisive guide to a complex world that even those who work in it often find hard to understand. In chapters on the markets that deal with money, foreign exchange, equities, bonds, commodities, financial futures, options and other derivatives, the book examines why these markets exist, how they work, and who trades in them, and gives a run-down of the factors that affect prices and rates. Business history is littered with disasters that occurred because people involved their firms with financial instruments they didn't properly understand. If they had had this book they might have avoided their mistakes. For anyone wishing to understand financial markets, there is no better guide.

Toward a New International Financial Architecture

Toward a New International Financial Architecture
Author: Barry J. Eichengreen
Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economics
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Recoge: 1. Introduction-2. Summary of recommendations-3. Standars for crisis prevention-4. Banks and capital flows-5. Bailing in the private sector-6. What won't work-7. What the IMF should do (and what we should do about the IMF).

Financial Market History: Reflections on the Past for Investors Today

Financial Market History: Reflections on the Past for Investors Today
Author: David Chambers
Publisher: CFA Institute Research Foundation
Total Pages: 306
Release:
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1944960163

Since the 2008 financial crisis, a resurgence of interest in economic and financial history has occurred among investment professionals. This book discusses some of the lessons drawn from the past that may help practitioners when thinking about their portfolios. The book’s editors, David Chambers and Elroy Dimson, are the academic leaders of the Newton Centre for Endowment Asset Management at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Practical Quantitative Finance with ASP.NET Core and Angular

Practical Quantitative Finance with ASP.NET Core and Angular
Author: Jack Xu
Publisher: UniCAD
Total Pages: 652
Release: 2019-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0979372569

This book provides comprehensive details of developing ultra-modern, responsive single-page applications (SPA) for quantitative finance using ASP.NET Core and Angular. It pays special attention to create distributed web SPA applications and reusable libraries that can be directly used to solve real-world problems in quantitative finance. The book contains: Overview of ASP.NET Core and Angular, which is necessary to create SPA for quantitative finance. Step-by-step approaches to create a variety of Angular compatible real-time stock charts and technical indicators using ECharts and TA-Lib. Introduction to access market data from online data sources using .NET Web API and Angular service, including EOD, intraday, real-time stock quotes, interest rates. Detailed procedures to price equity options and fixed-income instruments using QuantLib, including European/American/Barrier/Bermudan options, bonds, CDS, as well as related topics such as cash flows, term structures, yield curves, discount factors, and zero-coupon bonds. Detailed explanation to linear analysis and machine learning in finance, which covers linear regression, PCA, KNN, SVM, and neural networks. In-depth descriptions of trading strategy development and back-testing for crossover and z-score based trading signals.

Practical .NET for Financial Markets

Practical .NET for Financial Markets
Author: Vivek Shetty
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-11-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781430211761

* Hardcore .NET solutions for advanced, distributed financial applications. * Fascinating insight into operation of Equity markets and the challenges this poses for technology solutions – you do not have to be an equity market insider to use this book. * Examines next generation trading challenges, and potential solutions using .NET 2.0 and emerging technology, such as Avalon, Indigo and Longhorn.

US Withholding Tax

US Withholding Tax
Author: R. McGill
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2013-10-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137317302

The US is the world's largest capital market. Its withholding tax system is also the most complex. This book is essential reading for investors and intermediaries trying to comply with US QI and FATCA tax regulations. It guides the reader through these complex regulations with simple and practical insights into how to meet these compliance burdens.