An Introduction to Trading in the Financial Markets: Market Basics. An Introduction to Trading in the Financial Markets: Market Basics

How do financial markets operate on a daily basis? An Introduction to Trading in the Financial Markets: Market Basics is the first of four volumes, and introduces the structures, instruments, business functions, technology, regulations, and issues that commonly found in financial markets. Placing each of these elements into context, Tee Williams describes what people do to make the markets run. His descriptions apply to all financial markets, and he includes country-specific features, stories, historical facts, glossaries, and brief technical explanations that reveal individual variations and nuances. Reinforcing his insights are visual cues that guide readers through the material. While this book won't turn you into an expert broker, it will explain where brokers fit into front office, middle office, and back office operations. And that knowledge is valuable indeed. Provides easy-to-understand descriptions of all major elements of financial markets Filled with graphs and definitions that help readers learn quickly Offers an integrated context based on the author's 30 years'experience Content: Front matter , Page i Copyright , Page ii Preface for the Set , Pages v-xvi Preface , Pages xvii-xix Overview , Pages xxi-xxvii History , Pages xxix-xxxi Visual Glossary , Pages xxxiii-xlvii Introduction , Pages 2-3 1 - The Buy Side , Pages 5-21 2 - The Sell Side , Pages 23-55 3 - Markets , Pages 57-67 4 - Support , Pages 69-79 5 - Regulators , Pages 81-85 Introduction , Pages 88-89 1 - Cash , Pages 91-103 2 - Derivative Instruments , Pages 105-111 3 - Packaged Instruments , Pages 113-118 Introduction , Pages 120-121 1 - The Primary Market , Pages 123-125 2 - Secondary Markets , Pages 127-129 Introduction , Pages 132-133 1 - Categories , Pages 135-139 2 - Buy Side , Pages 141-157 3 - Sell Side , Pages 159-193 4 - Exchanges and Other Marketplaces , Pages 195-203 5 - Support , Pages 205-219 6 - Education , Pages 221-225 Introduction , Pages 228-233 Introduction , Pages 236-237 Introduction , Pages 240-241 Introduction , Pages 244-245 Conclusion , Pages 247-250 Glossary , Pages 251-276 References , Page 277 Index , Pages 279-283

How do financial markets operate on a daily basis? This first of four volumes introduces the structures, instruments, business functions, technology, regulations, and issues that commonly found in financial markets. Placing each of these elements into context, Tee Williams describes what people do to make the markets run. His descriptions apply to all financial markets, and he includes country-specific features, stories, historical facts, glossaries, and brief technical explanations that reveal individual variations and nuances. Reinforcing his insights are visual cues that guide readers through the material. While this book won’t turn you into an expert broker, it will explain where brokers fit into front office, middle office, and back office operations. And that knowledge is valuable indeed.

* Provides easy-to-understand descriptions of all major elements of financial markets

* Filled with graphs and definitions that help readers learn quickly

* Offers an integrated context based on the author's 30 years' experience

Succeeding in the financial markets requires a mastery of many disciplines. Mastery begins with understanding the actors, rules, and dynamics, and the ways in which they interact. This volume, the last of a 4-volume series, presents a broad perspective on key subjects such as regulation and compliance, risk and ways to mitigate it, and the directions in which trading markets might evolve. Like its predecessors, it presents alternative versions of the future: will the sell side or buy side come to dominate, for example, and how might new technologies shape global markets? Mastery of the financ