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Modeling Financial Markets : Using Visual Basic.NET and Databases to Create Pricing, Trading, and Risk Management Models |  | Authors: Benjamin Van Vliet, Robert Hendry
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 304
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0071417729
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.632028552768
UPC: 639785386025
EAN: 9780071417723
Publication Date: January 21, 2004
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Limitations in today's software packages for financial modeling system development can threaten the viability of any system--not to mention the firm using that system. Modeling Financial Markets is the first book to take financial professionals beyond those limitations to introduce safer, more sophisticated modeling methods. It contains dozens of techniques for financial modeling in code that minimize or avoid current software deficiencies, and addresses the crucial crossover stage in which prototypes are converted to fully coded models.
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 Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover March 9, 2006
Bob Fedro (Langes, Illinois)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found this book informative and extremely accessible. It's incredulous that all these dorks keep insisting that the title of this book rings false for them. The content does provide a great deal more than the title alone suggests but one could see that by glancing at the content prior to buying the book. What I enjoyed most about it was the matter of fact, easy tone which conveyed so much so simply.
 Hands On Programming March 5, 2006
Ray Burkholder (Bermuda)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Lately I've been making heavy use of Amazon's Table of Content look up capability. I think that I didn't use that well enough when I purchased this book. More on that.
I like to buy books as reference material. Things should be easy to find. I bought this book when I was first getting into building Automated Trading Strategies. I had the impression that this would help me.
I no longer support that impression. The Table of Contents has no reflection whatsoever on the financial perspective of the book. If you are looking for inspiration on programming a particular financial capability, one is left with scanning the book sequentially from front to back. There is no detailed table of content. One learns very early in programming that random access may be a trifle harder, but in the end it is much faster. No random access here.
I get the impression the book includes a few financial snippets, but nothing that really builds on anything else. I could be wrong. My attention span was never long enough to persist in finding out stuff in the book.
On the bright side of things, if I was learning .VB and wanted to learn it in within the Financial Modelling world, it might be a good book to pick up.
But as other reviewers suggest, VB isn't a heavy hitter. I grew up with C/C++. Lately, I've been using C# substantially in my Financial Modelling.
So... I'd give this one two thumbs down due to it's lack of ability to be used as a reference. I'm sure there is good info in there somewhere, but how does one find it easily?
I'd instead pick up the O'Reilly book C# Essentials, your favorite Financial Book, and try things out that way.
 A very misleading title October 19, 2005
W. WEI (CA, USA)
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
The book is a jumble of basic financial concepts and way-too-simple VB.NET syntax explanations, which makes me wonder who are its target readers? How many financial professionals will ever want and/or be able to master .NET? As a computer programmer in a financial orgnization, I definitely want to learn a bit more about financial modelling, but this is certainly NOT the book to start with. It's far better to get familiarized with the basics by reading a pure finance or trading book.
Btw, if you read the job ads, there aren't many vacancies for trading system programmers to write VB6/VB.NET code (or any at all). Most would ask for a master in C/C++ or Java or some obscure proprietary language/platform.
How to Program book - not Financial Modeling July 21, 2005
Guy Bloomfield (Chicago IL)
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
This is a "How To Program" book which uses financial applications as samples. It is heavy on programming basics and scratches the surface of financial modeling. That's fine if that's what you expect from the book, but the title led me to believe that I'd learn modeling techniques. I expected a book that assumed proficiency in VB and dealt with moderate to advanced financial topics.
If you already know what a where clause is and are proficient at VB.Net, this is not for you. If you know nothing about VB and want to learn it using interesting examples, this is for you.
Programming for Financial Types April 13, 2005
John Matlock (Winnemucca, NV)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Sub-Title: Using Visual Basic.NET and Databases to Create Pricing, Trading, and Risk Management Models
This book is written at the delicate interface between financial analysis and computer programming. You could say that it's a book on financial modelling that spends a lot of time telling you how to program. Perhaps more accurately, it is a book on computer programming but written with the vocabulary and direction necessary to have the computer programs automatically select and evaluate investment opportunities.
The particular programming techniques described here use the Microsoft .NET environment, so the examples are very Microsoft centric. Still much of the material would be easily transferred over to other development environments if the reader desires.
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