Footprints of Chaos in the Markets

Footprints of Chaos in the Markets
Author: Richard M. A. Urbach
Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Price movements in financial markets are not random. There are actually clues that allow sophisticated investors to uncover trends and make accurate predictions. The key to discovering this predictability lies in a new set of mathematical techniques --the application of dynamic, non-linear time series. This new science of investment is where chaos theory meets the markets. Richard Urbach offers practical advice and applications on the latest mathematical techniques and examines the opportunities these new techniques can deliver.

Financial Market Risk

Financial Market Risk
Author: Cornelis Los
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2003-07-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134469322

This book covers the latest theories and empirical findings of financial risk, its measurement and management, and its applications in the world of finance.

Complex and Chaotic Nonlinear Dynamics

Complex and Chaotic Nonlinear Dynamics
Author: Thierry Vialar
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 752
Release: 2009-04-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3540859780

Complex dynamics constitute a growing and increasingly important area as they offer a strong potential to explain and formalize natural, physical, financial and economic phenomena. This book pursues the ambitious goal to bring together an extensive body of knowledge regarding complex dynamics from various academic disciplines. Beyond its focus on economics and finance, including for instance the evolution of macroeconomic growth models towards nonlinear structures as well as signal processing applications to stock markets, fundamental parts of the book are devoted to the use of nonlinear dynamics in mathematics, statistics, signal theory and processing. Numerous examples and applications, almost 700 illustrations and numerical simulations based on the use of Matlab make the book an essential reference for researchers and students from many different disciplines who are interested in the nonlinear field. An appendix recapitulates the basic mathematical concepts required to use the book.

Big Trends In Trading

Big Trends In Trading
Author: Price Headley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2002-03-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471412694

Arms traders and sophisticated individual investors with the tools they need to play the markets successfully Many traders believe that they must perform at least one trade every day, no matter what. However, as expert Price Headley clearly demonstrates in this groundbreaking book, not only is that assumption false, it can also be dangerous. He shows why focusing too narrowly on the daily ebb and flow of the markets minimizes a trader's chances for the big returns. He explains why maximum results are achieved by identifying the big market trends and riding them for all their worth. Headley explores the major market indicators-including the popular CBOE Volatility Index, Nasdaq 100, Rydex Mutual Fund Flows, and Equity Put/Call Ratio-and shows readers how to use them to identify the stocks that are about to take off. Emphasizing the aggressive use of options, he also empowers investors with stock selection techniques and options strategies that work in virtually every type of market.

Evolutionary Finance

Evolutionary Finance
Author: B. Dowling
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2005-08-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230502199

The purpose of this book is to introduce the field of bioinformatics to financial modelling. It focuses on the way information informs price, and constructs a framework to explain information generation and the agglomeration process, enabling the reader to make more effective financial decisions. Based on all aspects of applied finance, this book uses informational analysis to help the reader understand the similarities between biomathematics and financial mathematics.

Tropic of Chaos

Tropic of Chaos
Author: Christian Parenti
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-06-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1568586620

From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency. Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism" -- a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.

Modelling and Forecasting Financial Data

Modelling and Forecasting Financial Data
Author: Abdol S. Soofi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461509319

Modelling and Forecasting Financial Data brings together a coherent and accessible set of chapters on recent research results on this topic. To make such methods readily useful in practice, the contributors to this volume have agreed to make available to readers upon request all computer programs used to implement the methods discussed in their respective chapters. Modelling and Forecasting Financial Data is a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students studying complex systems in finance, biology, and physics, as well as those applying such methods to nonlinear time series analysis and signal processing.

An Introduction to Wavelets and Other Filtering Methods in Finance and Economics

An Introduction to Wavelets and Other Filtering Methods in Finance and Economics
Author: Ramazan Gençay
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2001-10-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0080509223

An Introduction to Wavelets and Other Filtering Methods in Finance and Economics presents a unified view of filtering techniques with a special focus on wavelet analysis in finance and economics. It emphasizes the methods and explanations of the theory that underlies them. It also concentrates on exactly what wavelet analysis (and filtering methods in general) can reveal about a time series. It offers testing issues which can be performed with wavelets in conjunction with the multi-resolution analysis. The descriptive focus of the book avoids proofs and provides easy access to a wide spectrum of parametric and nonparametric filtering methods. Examples and empirical applications will show readers the capabilities, advantages, and disadvantages of each method. - The first book to present a unified view of filtering techniques - Concentrates on exactly what wavelets analysis and filtering methods in general can reveal about a time series - Provides easy access to a wide spectrum of parametric and non-parametric filtering methods

Footprints

Footprints
Author: Alex Archer
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2014-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1472085574

When her longtime friend claims to have evidence of Big Foot's existence, archaeologist Annja Creed can't resist checking it out for herself–she's been debating the subject for years. Annja's curiosity leads her deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest, to meet Jenny where the supposed trail has been left by the one and only Sasquatch.

Profiting from Chaos

Profiting from Chaos
Author: Tonis Vaga
Publisher: Tonis Vaga
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780070667860

Finally, a book that not only explains the relationship between investing and chaos theory--the cutting-edge dicipline that Business Week says will "revitalize the money-management industry"--but also shows readers how to use the theory to master the financial markets. Illustrated.