When Genius Failed: The Rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management This book authored by Roger Lowenstein, is a short biography and chronology of an infamous hedge fund. Background So before getting into the review of this excellent read we need to understand, what does hedge fund means? Investopedia defines the term hedge funds as [...]
Archive for the ‘Special’ Category
Job Opening: Options Trading with Kredent, Kolkata
May 10th, 2011 
Praveen Bajaj Enter the exciting world of trading options and volatilities…. Inviting applications from experienced options traders for Options trading desk at Kredent Finance, Kolkata Kredent Finance is one of the largest professional trading firms in Eastern India contributing significantly to market volumes. Our professional trading desk has access to all the asset classes available for trading [...]
Technical Analysis Book
February 14th, 2011 Praveen Bajaj Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource For Financial Market Technicians by Kirkpatrick Charles D. Ii, Julie R. Dahlquist This book is the most complete, reliable, and objective guide to technical analysis, this book has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest advances in field of technical analysis. Selected as the official companion to the prestigious Market [...]
Advance Technical Analysis Seminar in Mumbai by Manish Hathiramani
November 24th, 2010 Praveen Bajaj For the First Time – Kredent Academy brings to you the tools used by professionals for Technical Analysis. If you’ve ever wondered how successful traders are able to profit consistently – in various market conditions – you need to attend this Workshop. In this vital workshop you will learn the strategies and techniques that today’s [...]
FSSC:A way for Large Corporate to Save Money
November 12th, 2010 Shalini Tibe Meaning of FSSC: Financial Shared Service Centre (FSSC) are autonomous operating units providing services to different businesses and geographical entities in group companies. Need for FSSC: The main reason for companies to set up FSSC is Cost reduction followed by flexibility and improvement in quality. It also provides standardization of process and excess staff levels [...]
Book Review – Barbarians at the Gates: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
July 22nd, 2010 Praveen Bajaj Barbarians at the Gates: The Fall of RJR Nabisco Barbarians at the Gates: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar is a book about the biggest LBO of all times, the RJR Nabisco in 1988 for a sum of $ 25 million. This was an event which shook the stock market [...]
Posted in Book Reviews 
Tags: Barbarians at the Gates, Book Review, Bryan Burrough, Fall of RJR Nabisco 
No Comments »Indian Economic Data Sources
July 1st, 2010 Praveen Bajaj MoneyBol Patrons, Here are some links that you may find useful for accessing macroeconomic information and other statistics. These Datasets don’t require you to pay or register. (Note that some free datasets that require registration are also listed below) We will be happy to add any link suggested by you for the benefit of all [...]
Book Review – Screw it, Let’s do it
June 28th, 2010 Praveen Bajaj Book Review: Screw it, Let’s do it – Richard Branson The Book Screw it, Let’s do it – is a capsule of wisdom. You can read it cover to cover in 2.5 hours. In this book, the world famous maverick entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson narrated in a very lucid and frank way the guidelines that [...]
Posted in Book Reviews Tags: Book Review, Losing My Virginity, richard branson, screw it lets do it, virgin No Comments »Book review: A Colossal Failure of Common Sense
June 2nd, 2010 Praveen Bajaj . Friends, I have just finished reading a really nice book discussed below. This is the first time I have tried my hand on writing a book review. I have tried to be very objective and honest. Please let me know your views by posting a comment below. Background: A Colossal Failure of Common Sense [...]
Opening as professional trader with KREDENT
January 14th, 2010 Praveen Bajaj Excellent Opportunity: Opening as professional trader with KREDENT We are glad to invite applications for our Professional Derivatives Trading desk. Kredent trading desk is one of the largest trading desk in India with substantial market share in exchange’s volume and liquidity. Kredent is the direct clearing and trading member of the NSE, MCX-SX, MCX, NCDEX [...]
Posted in Jobs Tags: job opening, professional traders, professional trading jobs, trading jobs No Comments »