Finance

Contents:

• Finance Glossary
• Basics of Finance and Trading
  • Financial Markets
  • Bid Offer Spread
  • Essential Types of Financial Data
  • OMS and EMS Systems
• Structured Notes
• The Financial Information eXchange Protocol
  • FIX tagvalue message format
• Foreign Exchange Trading
  • An Introduction to Foreign Exchange Trading
  • The Basics of Currency Trading
  • Asian Foreign Exchange Trading Centres
• Fixed Income Securities
  • Fixed Income Glossary

Trading and why it fascinates me

• Its like playing a game. Not a board game or a computer game, but a real game where you make and loose money. The stakes are high, so its important that you take it seriously.

• I think that it’s essentially a more sophisticated and acceptable form of gambling. Making money through financial trades is an art, where you’re competing against other people in the form of market sentiment and psychology.

• Its a much more sophisticated form of gaming. The more you know about the various factors and the fundamentals, the more informed of a choice you can make when you put your money down.

• With financial asset trading, be it stocks, currency or commodities, its important to have a deep understanding of the instruments you have at your disposal and what sort of variables you are after.

• And as with any other domain, technology and software provide such an invaluable tool in providing this information and performing trades.