>>    Futures Market by Donna Kline (Author) From the basics of open outcry trading to advanced technical indicators, Fundamentals of the Futures Market gives beginning futures traders everything they need to get started. This hands-on workbook walks readers through the entire process to read and understand major reports, track prices, follow the major indicators, and more. In today’s fast-paced futures trading arena, it provides the tools readers need to trade in any commodity market—grains, metals, or financials—and minimize risk as they sharpen their trading skills.

>>    DYNAMIC HEDGING by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Author) Watch the professionals. From central banks to brokerages to multinationals, institutional investors are flocking to a new generation of exotic and complex options contracts and derivatives. But the promise of ever larger profits also creates the potential for catastrophic trading losses. Now more than ever, the key to trading derivatives lies in implementing preventive risk management techniques that plan for and avoid these appalling downturns. Unlike other books that offer risk management for corporate treasurers, Dynamic Hedging targets the real-world needs of professional traders and money managers. Written by a leading options trader and derivatives risk advisor to global banks and exchanges, this book provides a practical, real-world methodology for monitoring and managing all the risks associated with portfolio management.

>>    The Fundamentals of Risk Measurement by Christopher Marrison (Author) As evidenced by well-publicized debacles at Long Term Capital Management, Barings Bank, and others, trading risk management and measurement is both complex and critical. Fundamentals of Risk Measurement provides a uniquely straightforward approach to the subject, relying on bulletted text and commonsense analysis. Valuable as either a quick, complete introduciton to risk or as a handy review, it allows easy access to key points--and provides tremendous value for everyone from members of trading operations to key executives above the trading floor.

>>    Credit Risk Modeling Author:christian Bluhm,Ludger Overbeck,ect. This is an outstanding book on the default models that are used internally by financial institutions. This practical book delves into the mathematics, the assumptions and the approximations that practitioners apply to make these models work. - Glyn A Holton of 'Contingency Analysis' There are so many financial tools available today and numbers are likely to grow in the future. If you work in this field of credit risk modelling it is worth looking at the theoretical background, and this book is a well-rounded introduction. Journal of the Operational Research Society As an introductory survey it does an admirable job. …this book is an important guide into the field of credit risk models. Mainly for the practitioner and less for the academician. …It is well written, fairly easy to follow. -Horst Behncke, Zentralblatt Math