Trading Catalysts: How Events Move Markets and Create Trading Opportunities
" Trading Catalysts takes you into the market and recounts moment-by-moment price action. From an almost 14% rise in the Nasdaq following a surprise Fed rate cut to an incredible (and temporary) 22% decline in the S&P 500 futures price folliwng a single large sell order, Trading Catalysts is loaded witih real-life examples of how events move markets. Must reading for traders and investors alike." --Victor Canto, Pd.D., founder of La Jolla Economics and a columnist for The National Review "At last...an invaluable investment book that shows in detail how markets actually behaved during extreme events, times when fortunes were won or lost in the blink of an eye. This is the real world of trading and risk, not academic theory. Read, learn and prepare yourself because these types of extraordinary events will happen again." --Peter Matthews, Managing Partner, Optimation Investment Management LLC Understand the Triggers of Market Volatility—and Take Advantage of Them
- Actionable lessons from 25 years of major events—and the market’s reactions to them
- Predicting the market impact of everything from Fed statements to natural disasters
- Separating real information from noise, major “market movers” from trivia
- Size Matters: When key players unwind positions and move the markets
- The Information in Economic Reports: Rout or Rally? Uncertain market reaction to the forecast errors from economic reports
- Talk Isn’t Cheap: When the comments of politicians and policymakers move markets
- Market Interventions: When governments intervene: case studies, from currencies to oil
- Geopolitical Risk: From elections to terrorism to wars
- Bubbles, Crashes, Corners, and Market Crises: Lessons from the “silver corner,” the 1987 stock market crash, and the Asian Financial Crisis
- Quantifying the Market Impact of Natural Disasters: From earthquakes to floods to mad cow disease
- Fat Fingers: When trading errors and mistranslations move the market
- Of Straws and Camels’ Backs: When trivial news sparks huge moves
Robert I. Webb teaches Financial Trading at both the McIntire School of Commerce and the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on derivative securities and markets, trading, and incentive economics. He is the author of Macroeconomic Information and Financial Trading(Oxford, 1994) and has written numerous academic papers. Webb has traded treasury bonds and other fixed income securities for the Investment Department of the World Bank; traded futures as a “local” on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; designed new financial futures and option contracts for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; served in the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget during President Reagan’s first term; and served at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He previously taught at the University of Southern California. Webb is editor of The Journal of Futures Markets, a leading academic journal on derivative securities and markets. He earned his Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago, and has published widely in both academic journals and the financial press.
