Trader Construction Kit

Trader Construction Kit is a comprehensive resource for undergraduate, MBA and Masters of Finance students interested in a career with a bank, hedge fund or other financial institution.

Trader Construction Kit is a practical guide to developing the skills and techniques employed by professional traders:

• Fundamentally and technically analyzing a market.
• Assessing the volatility and risk characteristics of the market.
• Developing a view, an actionable perspective on the future of price.
• Evaluating directional, spread, option & quantitative trading strategies.
• Weighing the inherent risk and reward in potential positions.
• Efficiently executing trades and managing the resulting exposures.
• Pricing and hedging structured transactions.

Trader Construction Kit contains a single, highly detailed case study that incrementally incorporates and applies the lessons learned in each chapter.

Additional chapters describe how:

• The evolutionary state of a market shapes the activities of its inhabitants.
• The role of a trader varies at different types of financial institutions.
• A trader's personality forms an integral part of their approach to the market.
• To survive and thrive on a trading floor.