Review of Futures, Options, and Swaps (Hardcover)

This is the only non-AIMR text that is required reading for all three CFA exams. I feel the Dr. Kolb's strength is laying out the basic tenents of finance for the layman. He also includes advanced formulas in the latterpart of the book if you want to get deeper.Certain other authors of financeand accounting texts seem more interested in impressing their readers withtheir acumen in the field. In this book you don't have to read a paragraph3 times to get the basic gist of what he is trying to say. It is very plainand straightforward. If only more academics would write in this manner. Mymain problem with this book is I found it so interesting I wandered off therequired reading sections for the CFA test too much.



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Review of The CRB Commodity Yearbook 2006 with CD-ROM (Hardcover)

This book is the single most comprehensive source of commodity and futures market information available.Since 1939 traders, hedgers, portfolio managers, and speculators have relied rely on The CRB Commodity Yearbook to help them navigate the vagaries of the commodity markets.

The Yearbook's depth renders it indispensable.It helps identify changing trends in supply and demand and for projecting important price movements. This edition provides covers more than 100 domestic and international commodities. It includes seasonal patterns and historical data from the past ten years as well as current monthly and annual pricing and trading patterns.

The information is easy to access. Each commodity is introduced by a brief article, recent pricing trends and factors such as droughts, wars, diseases, or politics--that have influenced past prices.Data presented in over 900 tables, graphs, and price charts.They are clear.The companion CD-ROM provides the information in an electronic format.

Some of the biggest stock moves I have had the good fortune to participate in have been leveraged by substantial moves in commodity prices.If we are re-entering that type of market cycle, traders and investors cannot afford to be without this book.



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Review of The CRB Commodity Yearbook 2007 with CD-ROM (Hardcover)

This book gives you the necessary information to understand the commodities in the market and why they trade as they do.Without this information you couldn't make informed trading decisions.



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Review of Trading Natural Gas: Cash, Futures, Options and Swaps (Hardcover)

Was very pleased with the material contained in this book.Although I am a beginner in the natural gas trading field, I found Sturm's book both easy to understand yet challenging in its scope.A great deal of emphasis isplaced upon various hedging techniques and many helpful diagrams areincluded to portray the trading flow.Overall a very unique and insightfulbook for beginners and for those with years of experience in tradingnatural gas.



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