Long/Short Market Dynamics: Trading Strategies for Today's MarketsHedge funds are now the largest volume players in the capital markets. They follow a wide assortment of strategies but their activities have replaced and overshadowed the traditional model of the long only portfolio manager. Many of the traditional technical indicators and commonly accepted trading strategies have become obsolete or ineffective. The focus throughout the book is to describe the principal innovations that have been made within the equity markets over the last several years and that have changed the ground rules for trading activities. By understanding these changes the active trader is far better equipped to profit in today’s more complex and risky markets. Long/Short Market Dynamics includes:
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Trading Strategies for Todays Markets 2 Range Expansion and Liquidity | 13 |
Trading Strategies for Todays Markets 3 Comparative Quantiles | 37 |
Trading Strategies for Todays Markets 4 Volume as a Leading Indicator | 59 |
Trading Strategies for Todays Markets 5 Alignments and Divergences | 95 |
Trading Strategies for Todays Markets 6 Volatility | 135 |
Trading Strategies for Todays Markets 7 The Morphology of Gaps | 163 |
Trading Strategies for Todays Markets 8 Correlation and Convergence | 179 |
Trading Strategies for Todays Markets 10 Regime Shifts and Stationarity | 221 |
Trading Strategies for Todays Markets 11 Money Management Techniques | 239 |
Trading Strategies for Todays Markets 12 Portfolio Theory | 265 |
Trading Strategies for Todays Markets 13 Alpha | 283 |
Trading Strategies for Todays Markets 14 Markets as Networks | 303 |
Trading Strategies for Todays Markets Notes | 315 |
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Long/Short Market Dynamics: Trading Strategies for Today's Markets Clive M. Corcoran No preview available - 2007 |
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