Derman E. My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance

3rd edition. — The MIT Press, 2008. — 1168 p. Too often, finance courses stop short of making a connection between textbook finance and the problems of real-world business. Financial Modeling bridges this gap between theory and practice by providing a nuts-and-bolts guide to solving common financial models with spreadsheets. Simon Benninga takes the reader step by step through...

John Wiley, 2013. — 225 pp. This book is a practical guide to algorithmic trading strategies that can be readily implemented by both retail and institutional traders. It is not an academic treatise on financial theory. Rather, I hope to make accessible to the reader some of the most useful financial research done in the past few decades, mixing them with insights I gained from...

N.-Y.: Wiley, 2014. - 284p. "Award-winning trader Kevin Davey explains how he evolved from a discretionary to a systems trader and began generating triple-digit annual returns. An inveterate systems developer, Davey explains the process of generating a trading idea, validating the idea through statistical analysis, setting entry and exit points, testing, and implementation in the...

Wiley, 2008. – 1033 p. – ISBN: 047017921X, 9780470179215 If you’re seeking solutions to advanced and even esoteric problems, Advanced Analytical Models goes beyond theoretical discussions of modeling by facilitating a thorough understanding of concepts and their real-world applications—including the use of embedded functions and algorithms. This reliable resource will equip you...

Wiley, 2009. – 624 p. – 2nd ed. – ISBN: 0470748753, 9780470748756 Getting agreement between finance theory and finance practice is important like never before. In the last decade the derivatives business has grown to a staggering size, such that the outstanding notional of all contracts is now many multiples of the underlying world economy. No longer are derivatives for helping...