Global macro trading : profiting in a new world economy / Greg Gliner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gliner, Greg, author.

Series:

Bloomberg financial series ; 567.

Bloomberg Financial ; 567

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International trade.

Investments.

Macroeconomics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Brings global macro trading down to earth for individual and professional traders, investors and asset managers, as well being a useful reference handbook Global Macro Trading is an indispensable guide for traders and investors who want to trade Global Macro - it provides Trading Strategies and overviews of the four asset classes in Global Macro which include equities, currencies, fixed income and commodities. Greg Gliner, who has worked for some of the largest global macro hedge funds, shares ways in which an array of global macro participants seek to capitalize on this strate

Contents:

Global Macro Trading: Profiting in a New World Economy; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1: An Overview of Global Macro; Chapter 1: Surveying the Global Macro Landscape; Types of Global Macro Strategies; Discretionary; Systematic; High Frequency Trading; Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs); Return Profile and Allocations; Hedge Funds and Global Macro; Summary; Chapter 2: Trading Process, Sizing Trades, and Monitoring Performance; Maintaining a Stringent Process; Objectivity and Bias; Confirmation Bias; Availability Bias; Anchoring Bias; Remedies; Taking Losses

Position SizingUnit Size; Volatility Adjusting Position Size; Risk/Reward; Correlation; Gap Risk; Position Sizing Sheet; Thematic Trade; Sharpe Ratio; Sortino Ratio; Drawdowns; Value at Risk (VaR); Risk Utilization; Stress-Testing; Monitoring Performance; Trend Analysis; Bloomberg Shortcuts; Summary; Chapter 3: Back-Tests, Queries, and Analogs; Simple Back-Tests and Queries; An Example of Building a Query; False Positives; Historical Correlations and Analogs; Summary

Chapter 4: The Building Blocks of Global Macro Trading: The Importance of Equities, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, and Commodities in Global MacroThe Four Product Groups; Currencies; Equities; Fixed Income; Commodities; Assessing the Relationships between Assets; Risk On/Risk Off; Correlation; Summary; Chapter 5: Technical Analysis; Strengths and Weaknesses of Technical Analysis; Types of Charts; Line Chart; Bar Chart; Candlestick Charts; Point and Figure; Logarithmic Scale Charts; Volume and Open Interest; CFTC Positioning; Trend; Moving Averages; Bollinger Bands; Reversal Patterns

Head and ShouldersTrend Lines; Triple Tops and Bottoms; Continuation Patterns; Triangles; Oscillators; MACD; RSI; Stochastics (%K/%D); Elliott Wave Theory; Corrective Waves; Zigzags; Flats; Triangles; Truncation; Fibonacci; Parabolics; Seasonals; Cycles; Kondratiev Wave; Kuznets Cycle; Juglar Cycle; Kitchin Inventory Cycle; Crowd Psychology and Contrarian Views; Initial Public Offerings (IPOs); Magazine Covers; Chartered Market Technician (CMT); Bloomberg Shortcuts; Summary; Chapter 6: Systematic Trading; A Brief Definition of Systematic Trading; Framework for Constructing a Systematic Model

Assets or Product GroupsStrategies; Value; Trend; Carry; Fundamentals; Factors; Risk Factors; Selecting Risk Factors; Back-Testing Factors; Risk Premia; Risk Parity; Risk; Positions; Summary; Part 2: Global Macro Trading Foundation; Chapter 7: Foreign Exchange in Global Macro; The Role of the U.S. Dollar; Central Bank Holdings of U.S. Dollars; Dollar Index; Trading Currencies; Currency Forwards; Non-Deliverable Forwards (NDFs); Spot Market; Futures Market; Options; Currency Regimes; Fixed Currency; Floating with Frequent Intervention; Valuation Techniques for Foreign Exchange

Equity Index Price Performance

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118623572

1118623576

9781118420386

1118420381

OCLC:

878117434