Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Notes on Contributors -- Editors -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Trends and Trades -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 A trend-based trading strategy -- 1.3 CUSUM timing -- 1.4 Example: Random walk on ticks -- 1.5 CUSUM strategy Monte Carlo -- 1.6 The...

Risk control, capital allocation, and realistic derivative pricing and hedging are critical concerns for major financial institutions and individual traders alike. Events from the collapse of Lehman Brothers to the Greek sovereign debt crisis demonstrate the urgent and abiding need for...