"This book offers focused research on the systems and technologies that provide intelligence and expertise to traders and investors and facilitate the agile ordering processes, networking, and regulation of global financial electronic markets"--Provided by publisher.
Fourteen papers describe the latest generation of technology for trading equities digitally and financial models for analyzing price trends in stocks, commodities, and derivatives. Editor Yap and his colleague at Elon University compare the performance of bundled services online brokers offer their active trading clients. Other topics include testing the market fraction hypothesis, algorithmic trading strategies, virtual reality support for trading, linked data driven information systems for integrating financial data, and a multi-population EDR approach for predicting bank failure. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)