San Antonio College Library

Professional trader Matt Grossman explains the concept of short selling and discusses its risks and advantages in a bear market.

The host talks about the psychological element of successful trading, and how to prevent your emotions from driving you to make bad decisions. He interviews Marc Sterling, who discusses the importance of strong convictions in trading success, and the way to earn such convictions.

Professional trader Matt Grossman defines and gives examples of market and limit orders, stop orders, conditional orders, and order time and size. He also provides a step-by-step demonstration of how to place an order through an online broker.

"Against the Gods, a narrative that reads like a novel, chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from the oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. This is a richly-woven tale of Greek philosophers and Arab mathematicians, of merchants and scientists, gamblers and philosophers, world-renowned intellects and obscure but inspired amateurs who helped discover...

One of the lasting legacies of Reaganomics is a deep-seated distrust of government intervention in the markets. Despite this still-popular sentiment, the Basel Accords, a set of international standards for banking supervision and regulation, have been the subject of remarkably little public criticism. While academics and practitioners decry the enforcement of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on accounting reform or attempts by Congress to regulate executive...