Quantitative Finance Collector is a blog on Quantitative finance analysis, financial engineering methods in mathematical finance focusing on derivative pricing, quantitative trading and quantitative risk management. Please help us spread the word:
Sep
18
I guess many of the readers of this blog are students like me, so if you are a student, Amazon.com has a free program called Amazon Student where you can get Amazon Prime shipping benefits free for a year. Great for getting quant books for yourself!
Amazon Prime, which usually costs $79 a year, gives you unlimited free two-day delivery on items directly sold by Amazon, and you can also get overnight delivery for $3.99 per item. There is no minimum order size. Below is a short profile:
Enjoy this great service by signing up at Amazon Student
if you are a student.
Amazon Prime, which usually costs $79 a year, gives you unlimited free two-day delivery on items directly sold by Amazon, and you can also get overnight delivery for $3.99 per item. There is no minimum order size. Below is a short profile:
Amazon Prime shipping benefits free for one year
Unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping on textbooks and millions of other items
No minimum order size
Upgrades to One-Day shipping for $3.99/item
E-mail alerts for exclusive deals and promotions
It's free for students - sign up by providing your school and major
Unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping on textbooks and millions of other items
No minimum order size
Upgrades to One-Day shipping for $3.99/item
E-mail alerts for exclusive deals and promotions
It's free for students - sign up by providing your school and major
Enjoy this great service by signing up at Amazon Student
if you are a student.
Mar
11
Most of us have read the book Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
, one of the books that define Wall Street during the 1980s and are highly recommened by many people in academia and industry, where the author Michael Lewis described his experiences as a bond salesman in a humon sense. I just got to know today from a friend of mine recommending a new book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine , as described:
I don't know, considering the high quality of Liar's Pocker, it may be worth reading. I pre-ordered just now at Amazon, if you also want a bed reading book, order one at only $15.09 at Amazon to be released on March 15, 2010. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
.
, one of the books that define Wall Street during the 1980s and are highly recommened by many people in academia and industry, where the author Michael Lewis described his experiences as a bond salesman in a humon sense. I just got to know today from a friend of mine recommending a new book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine , as described:A brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. Truth really is stranger than fiction. Who better than the author of the signature bestseller Liar’s Poker to explain how the event we were told was impossible—the free fall of the American economy—finally occurred; how the things that we wanted, like ridiculously easy money and greatly expanded home ownership, were vehicles for that crash; and how shareholder demand for profit forced investment executives to eat the forbidden fruit of toxic derivatives.
I don't know, considering the high quality of Liar's Pocker, it may be worth reading. I pre-ordered just now at Amazon, if you also want a bed reading book, order one at only $15.09 at Amazon to be released on March 15, 2010. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
.
Nov
20
You might wonder why I named the title, today I received a gift card from Amazon with value of $17.55, because Amazon pays me commision for any book bought on Quant book store at Amazon.com, $17.55 is what I've earned over the past half year :). However, the gift is less appealing to me as I am not in US, nor have a friend there, so I am thinking it should be valuable for those readers of my blog located in US.
The story is like this: I search "quantitative finance" and "financial engineering" at Amazon, sort the results by bestselling, and select those books below $17.55. If you happen to be in US (or have a postal address in US), just leave a comment at the end of this post telling the number of book you would like. One week later, that is 2009-11-27, a random commentator will be chosen and wins the book s(he) likes. Here random integer generator randint(1,1,[1,N]) in Matlab will be used, N is numbers of commentator, for example, if two people leave a comment, each one has 50% chance; if one people replies (s)he will definately win; if nobody participates, the gift card will be expired and Amazon smiles. (no need to leave a postal address now and I will contact you on 2009-11-27)
Ok, the 10 bestselling Quant books below $17.55 are:
1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9,
10,
Have a nice weekend.
The story is like this: I search "quantitative finance" and "financial engineering" at Amazon, sort the results by bestselling, and select those books below $17.55. If you happen to be in US (or have a postal address in US), just leave a comment at the end of this post telling the number of book you would like. One week later, that is 2009-11-27, a random commentator will be chosen and wins the book s(he) likes. Here random integer generator randint(1,1,[1,N]) in Matlab will be used, N is numbers of commentator, for example, if two people leave a comment, each one has 50% chance; if one people replies (s)he will definately win; if nobody participates, the gift card will be expired and Amazon smiles. (no need to leave a postal address now and I will contact you on 2009-11-27)
Ok, the 10 bestselling Quant books below $17.55 are:
1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9,
10,
Have a nice weekend.
May
21
Amazon Kindle is a software and hardware platform for reading electronic books developed by Amazon.com, few days ago a friend of mine told me Amazon had a new service called Kindle blog, which gives a blogger chance to publish his or her blog at Amazon for free. Since nothing to lose by exposuring a blog to one of the world's largest websites, I submitted immediately and 10 minutes ago found my blog was successfully listed at Amazon Kindle
.
I intent to make it free but I am not allowed to do so, Amazon automatically sets the Monthly Price at $0.99 and includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet, nevertheless, blog subscription starts with a 14-day free trial, and you can cancel at any time during the free trial period. (I double checked the publisher's policy, Amazon will charge 70% of subscription fee while bloggers receive the left 30%, that is to say, I earn only $0.297 per subscription.)
I don't expect people to subscribe my blog via Amazon Kindle as it is totally free on web, however, if you happen to use Kindle and would like to buy me a 1/5 bottle of Beck's beer, I will be pleased
.
Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0029U2FQ6
.I intent to make it free but I am not allowed to do so, Amazon automatically sets the Monthly Price at $0.99 and includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet, nevertheless, blog subscription starts with a 14-day free trial, and you can cancel at any time during the free trial period. (I double checked the publisher's policy, Amazon will charge 70% of subscription fee while bloggers receive the left 30%, that is to say, I earn only $0.297 per subscription.)
I don't expect people to subscribe my blog via Amazon Kindle as it is totally free on web, however, if you happen to use Kindle and would like to buy me a 1/5 bottle of Beck's beer, I will be pleased
Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0029U2FQ6
