Aktien-Trading Vol I to IV (German) (tradingeducators.com) – Joe Ross, Mark Cherlin

Aktien-Trading Vol I to IV (German) (tradingeducators.com) by Joe Ross, Mark Cherlin Raschke Description

A brokerage or bank’s portfolio of financial securities. In a trading book, financial instruments are bought and sold to ease trading for the institution’s clients, to benefit from trading spreads between bid and ask prices, or to hedge against various sorts of risk. Trading books can range in size from hundreds of thousands of dollars at the smallest financial institutions to tens of billions of dollars at the largest. To monitor and minimize risk in their trading books, most institutions use sophisticated risk measures.

In recent years, a number of financial institutions have suffered enormous losses as a result of their trading books. Such losses are frequently caused by an institution’s use of extraordinarily high levels of leverage to develop the trading book. Another form of trading book losses is errant or rogue traders’ excessive, highly concentrated bets on certain securities or market sectors.