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Traders, guns & money : knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives / Satyajit Das.
Lippincott Library - Reserve Desk HG6024.A3 D377 2006
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Das, Satyajit.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Derivative securities.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Traders, guns and money
- Place of Publication:
- Harlow, England ; New York : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2006.
- Summary:
- A wry and wickedly comic exposé 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 money invested in stocks, shares or derivatives, this is guaranteed to make you think.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Miracles and mirages 2
- Serial crimes 5
- Beginning of the end/end of the beginning 9
- Knowns and unknowns 12
- Unreliable recollections 13
- Summary judgment 17
- 1 Financial WMDs - derivatives demagoguery 19
- School days 21
- It's all Chinese to me 22
- A derivative idea 23
- Betting shops 25
- Secret subtexts 27
- Leveraged speculations 29
- Under the radar 32
- Whole lotta swapping going on 33
- The golden age/LIBOR minus 50 37
- Warehouses 40
- Serial killings 43
- Forbidden fruit 45
- Derived logic 50
- 2 Beautiful lies - the 'sell' side 53
- Smile and dial 55
- Market colour 56
- Rough trade 59
- Analyze this 62
- Class wars 64
- Ultra vires 66
- Feudal kingdoms 67
- Uncivil wars 68
- Golden rules 70
- Business models 71
- The medium is the message 74
- Bondage 75
- Tabloid cultures 76
- Conspicuous currency 77
- Ethnic cleansing 79
- Foreign affairs 80
- FILTH 81
- Lost in translation 82
- A day in the life 83
- 3 True lies - the 'buy' side 87
- Turn of the fork 88
- Risky business 89
- Magic kingdoms 91
- Stripping or stacking/hedging perils, again 95
- Me too 97
- 'Zaiteku' or the bride stripped bare 98
- The gamble in P & G 101
- Tobashi, baby 105
- Gnomes of Zermatt and Belgian dentists 107
- Death swaps 108
- Investment fashions 110
- Alpha, beta, zeta 112
- Looking after the relatives 115
- Agents all 116
- Unique selling propositions 117
- 4 Show me the money - greed lost and regained 121
- Money uncertainty 122
- Toll booths 123
- Take a seat 125
- Efficient markets 126
- On the platform 127
- A day at the races 129
- Black swans, black sheep 130
- Trading places 131
- Secret intelligence 133
- Overwhelming force 134
- Oracle of Delphi 135
- Free money 137
- The colour of money 138
- In reserve 140
- A comedy of errors 141
- Black holes 143
- What's the number? 146
- Nothing like excess 148
- Nice work if you can get it 149
- Dukes of Hazard 151
- 5 The perfect storm - risk mismanagement by the numbers 153
- Shock therapy 154
- Holy risk! 155
- Risk spin 156
- Risque matters 158
- Placebo effects 160
- Among the unbelievers 162
- Risk cults 164
- In the long run... 167
- Modus operandi 169
- Secret trader's business 170
- Let the good times roll 171
- The perfect storm 172
- Weather forecasts 173
- Endgame 175
- Mean risk 176
- Extreme sports 177
- 6 Super models - derivative algorithms 181
- Out of the sheltered workshops 182
- Rocket science 184
- Culture wars 185
- Conveyor belts 187
- Trivial pursuits 188
- Grand oprey 189
- The quest 190
- Genesis 193
- Gospels 196
- Greek tragedies 198
- Failing the model test 200
- CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) 1987 - 'Oh LOR-dy!' 202
- CSI 1992 - ERM (extremely risky, man!) 203
- CSI 1998 - selling England by the pound 204
- CSI 1998 - Asian fever 206
- Model envy 208
- Omitted variable bias 209
- 7 Games without frontiers - the inverse world of structured products 211
- Driving over lemons 212
- The best of times...the worst of times 214
- Ghostbusters 216
- It wasn't me, sir 217
- Heaven and hell 217
- Split personality 220
- Golfing holidays 222
- The flood 224
- Power to the people 226
- Recycling junk 230
- Six packs 232
- Take no prisoners 234
- The usual suspects 236
- 8 Share and share alike - derivative inequity 241
- Billion dollar baby 242
- Self arbitrage 245
- Arbitraging others 246
- Taking it over 248
- Buying back the farm 249
- Who's fooling who? 250
- Strippers 253
- Pearls of wisdom 254
- Own goals 257
- Taxing times 260
- Fund times 262
- 9 Credit where credit is due - fun with CDS and CDO 265
- Credit wars 266
- Credit epiphanies 267
- First-to-credit derivatives 269
- Remote credit 271
- Mistaken identity 274
- Heard it on the grapevine 276
- Guaranteed delivery 277
- Re-re-re-re-restructuring - CDS stutters 279
- Beyond the push and pull 281
- Imitation and flattery 282
- Tranche warfare 285
- It's super 287
- A capital idea 289
- The arbitrage age 290
- Hangovers 291
- UFOs 292
- Geeks with Greeks 293
- Never believe your own lies 295
- Russian dolls 297
- Black holes 298
- The Asian century redux 302
- Vexatious litigation 305
- The more things change 308
- Hot tubbing 310
- Rogue trader 313
- Bangs and whimpers 316
- The China Club 317
- BOAT (Best of all time) 318
- Knowns and unknowns 319.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0273704745
- 9780273704744
- OCLC:
- 62766164
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