If you have experience in option trading, or a strong understanding of the options markets, but want to better understand how to trade given certain market conditions, this is the book for you. Mark Sebastian's latest book will teach trade evaluation, using Greeks, trading various spreads under different market conditions, portfolio-building, and risk management. Sebastian's approach will help traders understand how to find edge, what kind of trade under what conditions will capture edge, and how to create and successfully hedge The book demonstrates how to structure a portfolio of trades that makes more money with less risk. Mark Sebastian is the CIO of Karman Line Capital and founder of Option Pit LLC, and a former member of both the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He is the author of the trading manual The Option Traders Hedge Fund and a frequent guest on CNBC, Fox Business News, Bloomberg, as well as a contributor to The Street's Real Money Pro.

Trading Options for Edge: Profit from Options and Manage Risk like the Professional Trading Firms

Business & Money

Sebastian, Mark

Economics

De|G Press

There are a variety of considerations you'll need to take into account when migrating your solutions to BizTalk 2016—read Upgrading and Migrating to Biz Talk Server 2016 by Mark Beckner for the latest. In this book, you will find detailed information about how to migrate your components "as-is," as well as recompile them with the latest version of Visual Studio. You'll look at ways to improve your components pre-migration, as well as troubleshoot issues within these components. You'll learn how to make intelligent mapping updates, especially with Xslt, and how to simplify your overall architecture. Additionally, working with BizTalk 2016 in an Azure environment and building BizTalk Azure Services are covered. Readers will look at migrating maps, orchestrations, .Net assemblies, database components, Edi parties and configurations, and other artifacts found in BizTalk solutions. They will also be able to quickly come to an understanding of what will be involved in a migration and what will be required for resourcing and costs associated with a migration. Readers will find information that will cover virtually every aspect of their upgrade to BizTalk 2016, and should come away with a simpler solution once that migration is complete.

Upgrading and Migrating to BizTalk Server 2016

Computers & Technology

Beckner, Mark

Networking & Cloud Computing

If your business has anything to do with China, or you simply seek to understand the rise of China, you need to read this book. In The China Paradox, business strategist and historian Dr. Paul G. Clifford uses vivid examples from his deep experience in China to lay bare the delicate and fragile balance of forces which lie at the heart of China's success. He explains how, against all the odds, the ruling Communist Party boldly led the economic reforms as the surest way to preserve their grip on power. This flourishing of China's hybrid developmental model is placed firmly in the historical context, shedding light on the legacies that thwarted earlier attempts at change and which today still threaten to render the progress unsustainable. China is taking its place on the world economic stage, displaying business acumen and innovation. But flawed political governance, coupled with the downside of breakneck growth, hampers China's ability to realize its potential and casts a shadow over its longer-term prospects. This book is for anyone who needs to understand how China competes, anyone with business or other affairs in China, and anyone involved in foreign trade will benefit from this book.

The China Paradox

Clifford, Paul G.

Successful companies actively cultivate new ideas, put those ideas to work quickly and efficiently, and harvest the business value benefits of successful innovations. Innovation can be taught, and processes such as user-centered design increase the likelihood of a successful match between an innovative solution and the needs of users. In this insightful technical book Esther Baldwin and Martin Curley provide a multitude of techniques and methods that improve the likelihood of successful innovation through the launch of new innovative products, services, processes, financial models and customer experiences or innovations to existing systems, processes, technologies or products.  In an increasingly digital world, Managing Innovation in the Digital World includes examples and case studies from leading organizations. It includes assessment techniques, skill set descriptions, and a capability maturity framework to help IT organizations understand where they stand as innovators and what steps to take to strengthen their competencies.   Drawing on their experience with innovation in Intel's engineering operations and beyond, Baldwin and Curley emphasize that innovation does not require whole-scale invention. An innovative solution reapplied in a new context can provide even greater business value because the initial investment in developing the solution has already been made.

Managing Innovation in the Digital World

Esther Baldwin

Martin Curley

Management & Leadership

This is truly brilliant... I read the whole thing word for word. The scope is breathtaking. It is well researched, exhaustive, and deeply thoughtful. -Robert J. Rosenberg, retired partner and co-chair of Insolvency Practice Group at Latham &amp; Watkins LLP Boards of directors are sitting ducks. Shareholders complain and attack them, management manipulates them, and individual board members have little power, able to act only as a small part of the board as a whole. Governance issues are front and center, yet often there is little understanding, even among board members, of the key role that they themselves play. Written in an accessible and human voice, The Governance Revolution: What Every Board Member Needs to Know, NOW! provides information and context essential to anyone seeking to understand how corporations and their stewards - the board of directors - can and should function in the volatile world we inhabit. In every chapter Deborah Hicks Midanek offers detailed insight into the authentic lives of board members of corporations, the current standards for the board members, and why these standards exist. She includes a timely discussion of how clarity of purpose improves board and director effectiveness. Informed by her years of experience serving public, private, and family owned corporate, as well as charitable, boards and government organizations, she provides essential context regarding the evolution of board practice as well as candid discussion of the issues involved in the relentless effort to improve corporate governance processes. Focused mainly on the dominant public corporation, Midanek also explores the special challenges of serving on private and family owned, as well as nonprofit and public agency, boards. Written by a seasoned board member, and liberally laced with stories and cases illustrating the tricky issues directors wrestle with, The Governance Revolution: What Every Board Member Needs to Know, NOW! is the essential common-sense companion for anyone working with a board, serving on a board, or wanting to do so in the future. Directors, aspiring directors, investors, students of corporate behavior, and you will all benefit from this book.

The Governance Revolution: What Every Board Member Needs to Know, NOW! (The Alexandra Lajoux Corporate Governance)

Deborah Hicks Midanek

Biography & History

Learn what it takes to change the character and intensity of an organization. Rather than thinking of Human Resources as an upgraded personnel department, authors Peter Navin and David Creelman encourage readers to think of HR as an analogue to marketing. Similar to how the Chief Marketing Officer curates an experience to produce the best lifetime value from customers, the head of HR can curate an experience to produce the best lifetime value from employees. Peter Navin and David Creelman explore a new and innovative model, boldly titling the leader of HR as "The CMO of People." This new title encapsulates a business-focused people function that has learned and grown from the proven tools of the marketing function. The CMO of People creates a predictable and immersive employee experience that drives productivity and performance. In this pathbreaking book, Peter Navin and David Creelman answer essential questions when it comes to the reformation of the Human Resources department: how do we create a predictable and immersive end-to-end experience for employees? How can a CMO of People overcome barriers and drive performance? How, and why, should we structure the HR department differently? And how do we find unconventional people to staff this unconventional model?

The CMO of People: Manage Employees Like Customers with an Immersive Predictable Experience that Drives Productivity and Performance

Navin, Peter

Creelman, David

Business Culture

This extraordinary book, written by leading players in a burgeoning technology revolution, is about the merger of finance and technology (fintech), and covers its various aspects and how they impact each discipline within the financial services industry. It is an honest and direct analysis of where each segment of financial services will stand. Fintech: The New DNA of Financial Services provides an in-depth introduction to understanding the various areas of fintech and terminology such as A.I., Big Data, Robo-advisory, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Insuretech, Cloud computing, Crowdfunding and many more. Contributions from fintech innovators discuss banking, insurance and investment management applications, as well as the legal and human resource implications of fintech in the future. Fintech will bring revolutionary change to the finance and investment industry within the next decade, on the same scale as internet did to the retail industry. There will be disruptors and the disrupted, startups which will become behemoths and incumbents which will need to adapt. Understanding this evolution is paramount, no matter what field you are in.This book is readable by every industry professional, every college and high school student and the common man, as we focus on explaining concepts and terminologies in depth, while refraining from using any programming or mathematics.

Fintech: The New DNA of Financial Services

Gupta, Pranay

Tham, T. Mandy

The digital revolution in financial services is under way, and digital disruption has the potential to shrink the role and relevance of today’s banks, while simultaneously creating better, faster, cheaper services that will be an essential part of everyday life. This forward-looking book discusses the crucial innovation, structural and institutional development for financial technologies (fintech) in Islamic Finance. Fintech has inadvertently created new forms of financial standards by virtue of its products and services, and in doing so, offers the ability to create new ways to fully enable compliance with Islamic values in order to rebuild trust and confidence in the financial system. The potential to enhance the existing economic systems and banking products with better products that serve all customers throughout the world equally is crucial to flourish and sustain the Islamic economy. This book discusses the need to develop new strategies for all readers, including consumers, government agencies and financial institutions, to cope with the digital economic evolution. The authors explain concepts in fintech and blockchain technology and follow through with their applications, challenges and evolving nature. The book provides insights into the disruptive technology which can also enhance prescribed Islamic behaviors in modern economic transactions. Case studies highlight how to cope with modern transactional behavior with the advent of global online/mobile markets, shorter attention spans, and impersonal trade exchange.

Blockchain, Fintech, and Islamic Finance: Building the Future in the New Islamic Digital Economy

Mohamed, Hazik

Ali, Hassnian

Trading and Pricing Financial Derivatives is an introduction to the world of futures, options, and swaps. Self-study investors who are interested in deepening their knowledge of derivatives of all kinds will find this book to be an invaluable resource. Authors Patrick Boyle and Jesse McDougall delve into the history of options pricing; simple strategies of options trading; binomial tree valuation; Black-Scholes option valuation; option sensitivities; risk management and interest rate swaps in this immensely informative yet easy to comprehend work. Using their vast working experience in the financial markets at international investment banks and hedge funds since the late 1990s and teaching derivatives and investment courses at the Master's level, Patrick Boyle and Jesse McDougall put forth their knowledge and expertise in clearly explained concepts. Trading and Pricing Financial Derivatives does not presuppose advanced mathematical knowledge and is designed for a general audience, suitable for beginners through to those with intermediate knowledge Additionally, please update the About the Author section to: Patrick Boyle is a co-founder of Palomar Fund, a quantitative hedge fund and a Visiting Professor at King's College London and Queen Mary, University of London. He has been researching and trading quantitative futures strategies since 2001, first while working for Victor Niederhoffer in Connecticut. Patrick has been a Portfolio Manager at RBS, Millennium and Nomura. Patrick began his Finance career working as a Portfolio Manager in Private Wealth Management at Bank of America in Boston. Patrick has a Bachelor's in Management from Trinity College Dublin, and a Master's in Finance from London Business School. Patrick is the author of two finance textbooks. Jesse McDougall is a co-founder of Palomar Fund, a quantitative hedge fund, as well as a part-time Visiting Professor at King's College London and Queen Mary, University of London, where she has been teaching since 2009. She worked in Corporate Finance for BMO Capital Markets both in Canada and in London, working on advisory teams for large-cap Canadian companies in the early 2000s. Jesse began investing at Barclays Capital on the Equity Derivatives Proprietary Trading desk in 2005, researching and trading a variety of alpha strategies including long/short, event-driven and quantitative futures trading. She has a BComm, Concentration in Finance, Minor in Mathematics from McGill University (Great Distinction), and a Master's in Finance from London Business School (Distinction).

Trading and Pricing Financial Derivatives: A Guide to Futures, Options, and Swaps, Second Edition

Patrick Boyle

Jesse McDougall

For those new to SharePoint Online, as well as those who have worked with previous versions of the SharePoint platform, this guide is intended to give concrete steps to rapidly understand how to configure, develop, and administrate solutions in this new environment. SharePoint Online Development, Configuration, and Administration puts forth the most efficient way to get up to speed on the platform. This book, packed with value, provides clear, concise information about all of the common portions of SharePoint that you would need to work with - including WebParts, reporting, site management, administration and licensing with O365, and workflows using Microsoft Flow. These tips from a seasoned developer will teach you how to <ul> <li>Work with Sites, Lists, Permissions, Access, and other core functionality</li> <li>Make customizations to the look and feel of SharePoint Online</li> <li>Understand Web Part development and deployment</li> <li>Develop Microsoft Flow processes for business process automation</li> <li>Utilize Reporting functionality available in O365</li> <li>Look at the many options for administrating SharePoint components</li> </ul>

SharePoint Online Development, Configuration, and Administration: Advanced Quick Start Guide

Web Development & Design

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