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In the current market conditions investors and traders have to become more skilful to make money in the plain vanilla bond markets. They can no longer rely on structured products and complex derivatives as the credit crisis has shown these to be riskier than expected. With this in mind, Hor Chan, with a wealth of practical experience and knowledge, gets right to the heart of creating successful fixed income trading ideas. He carefully explains and illustrates the wide variety of approaches that can be employed in the market; describing various types of strategies, from simple directional trading based on macroeconomic and fundamental analysis to complex strategies using swaptions. He shows you how to identify the best trades, how to structure the trades, and the potential profits and risks involved. Aimed at practitioners in the fixed income markets the emphasis is always on practical examples and a strong focus on profitable techniques. The must have guide to profitable fixed income trading.

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Hor Chan is a Director of Financial Markets Training & Advisory Ltd. He provides specialist financial markets consultancy and training to international investment banks and their clients. He was previously an Associate Lecturer at the Open University Business School, training Corporate Finance within the MBA programme, and was also a visiting lecturer at City University Business School. Hor has over 25 years of experience in banking. Until recently, he was responsible for delivering and providing both in-house and client training at ABN AMRO globally. Prior to moving into training full-time, he worked in Emerging Markets debt trading and sales at Raiffeisen Zentral Bank. This was preceded by a period at Unibank A/S where he helped to set up the Asset Structuring Group. He also spent 8 years at SG Warburg where he held various sales and trading positions in Fixed Income, OTC Options, LIBOR trading and Credit Derivatives, and was Head of Structured Euro-MTN issuance. Hor is a CFA Charterholder and has just passed Level I of CAIA. He studied Corporate Finance at London Business School and holds an MSc in Management Science from Imperial College, the University of London. He earned a BSc in Physics from the University of Birmingham.

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