The Street-Smart Trader: An Insider's Guide to the City

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ISBN: 9781906659073 | 1906659079
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Copyright: 2/28/2011

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In this guide to the City, an experienced financial journalist provides an insider's view on the big issues, press coverage of the markets, the reports of financial analysts, and hedge funds. He shows how these insights can help traders make more successful, profitable trades.

Welcome to the Real City of London	p. IX
Introduction	p. 1
In the Beginning There Was Coffee	p. 3
Introduction	p. 5
Hot Drinks and Hotter Stocks	p. 6
Living Memory: Post-War Bowler Hats and Gorillas	p. 8
Big Bang	p. 13
Measuring the Success of Big Bang	p. 17
Viewing Big Bang in the Context of the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis	p. 20
What We Have Learned	p. 21
If you Don't Know the Rules, Don't Play the Market	p. 23
Introduction	p. 25
Well-worn, but Sound, Advice	p. 26
The Full Monty	p. 26
7 Rules for the Street-Smart Trader	p. 28
Scams and the City	p. 36
What We Have Learned	p. 42
Share Price Manipulation and Insider Dealing	p. 43
Introduction	p. 45
Trash and Cash - How Share Prices are Easily Manipulated	p. 45
Manipulation of the Media	p. 47
On Share Ramping	p. 49
First Person: Analysing Market News	p. 51
The Inside Track on Insider Dealing	p. 55
What We Have Learned	p. 63
The City Spin Game and How it is Played	p. 65
Introduction	p. 67
Public Relations	p. 68
First Person: The Corporate Message	p. 71
Companies and Press Attention	p. 82
The Friday Night Drop	p. 86
Speaking in Tongues- Typical Ambiguous Phrases Used by Journalists	p. 87
What We Have Learned	p. 89
The Trouble with Analysts	p. 91
Introduction	p. 93
Going Back in Time	p. 94
What Analysts Do	p. 95
The Relationship Between Banks, Funds and Analysts	p. 102
A Bloke Called Blodget	p. 103
Analysts and the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis	p. 105
What We Have Learned	p. 106
Market Makers and Other Professional Traders	p. 109
Introduction	p. 111
The Misunderstood Market Maker	p. 112
First Person: Meeting a Market Marker	p. 118
Proprietary Trading: The Fall and Rise of Casino Banking	p. 120
Stuck in the Middle… The Inter-Dealer Broker	p. 123
Dark Pools of Liquidity	p. 124
High-Frequency Trading	p. 125
The Methods of Institutional Investors	p. 128
The (Under)performance of Fund Managers	p. 129
What We Have Learned	p. 130
Hedge Funds	p. 133
Introduction	p. 135
A Beginner's Guide to Hedge Funds	p. 136
Tackling Misconceptions About Hedge Funds	p. 144
Risk Consultancy	p. 151
Hedge Funds, Market Colour and Inside Information	p. 153
What We Have Learned	p. 154
Boardroom Stock Pickers	p. 157
Introduction	p. 159
The Humanity of the Boardroom	p. 159
Monitoring Investments Made by the Boardroom	p. 160
To Follow the Trades of the Boardroom or Not	p. 164
What We Have Learned	p. 167
Vanity, Egotism and Fear: the World of Mergers and Acquisitions	p. 169
Introduction	p. 171
Synergies in Mergers and Acquisitions	p. 171
Mergers and Shareholder Value	p. 172
Deal Making is Glamorous, Due Diligence is Not	p. 174
When Deals Go Bad	p. 177
Those Who Profit from M&A	p. 178
What We Have Learned	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 181
Endnotes	p. 183
Tables and Figures
Annual US Department of Justice insider trading prosecutions	p. 60
Top PR firms working for FTSE clients (by number of clients)	p. 69
Top PR firms working for AIM clients (by number of clients)	p. 70
Unusual share price movements before takeovers	p. 61
Earnings revisions for Labrador Holdings PLC	p. 97
Investment recommendations on UK stocks between 2007 and 2009	p. 99
How access to live pricing might look	p. 114
How high-frequency traders make their money	p. 127
The change in trading strategies in the last two decades	p. 138
Stock picking by Britain's top bankers during the financial crisis of 2007-2009	p. 163
Value enhancement trend 1999-2008	p. 173
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