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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465481903321

Titolo

Traders [[electronic resource] ] : risks, decisions and management in financial markets / / Mark Fenton-O'Creevy ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-922645-8

1-280-75768-X

1-4237-8884-2

0-19-151500-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Fenton-O'CreevyMark (Mark P.)

Disciplina

332.64

Soggetti

Floor traders (Finance)

Trading rooms (Finance)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 INTRODUCTION: Traders, Markets, and Social Science; 2 THE GROWTH OF FINANCIAL MARKETS AND THE ROLE OF TRADERS; 3 ECONOMIC, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL EXPLANATIONS OF MARKET BEHAVIOUR; 4 TRADERS AND THEIR THEORIES; 5 A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING TRADER PSYCHOLOGY; 6 RISK TAKERS: Profiling Traders; 7 BECOMING A TRADER; 8 MANAGING TRADERS; 9 CONCLUSIONS; 10 APPENDIX: The Study; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This is a book about traders in financial markets: what they do, the kind of people they are, how they perceive the world they inhabit, how they make decisions and take risks. This is also a book about how traders are managed - the best and the worst examples - and about the institutions they inhabit: firms, markets, cultures, and theories of how the world works. How these institutions function, how traders are managed, and how traders view the world, all have profound effects on the wider financial environment. This book explores these relationships and their implications theoretically and em