Overview
Financial markets and trading is a book by Anatoly B. Schmidt, first published in 2011. In this catalogue it is classified mainly under Market Microstructure and Fixed Income, with secondary coverage of Statistical Arbitrage, Time Series Analysis and Algorithmic Trading.
Audience and depth. The rule-based model places its mathematical difficulty at intermediate level (5/10); readers are typically expected to know calculus, linear algebra, probability theory, statistics and stochastic processes.
Orientation. The theory-versus-practice balance could not be determined from metadata. The archive holds 6 papers whose topics and vocabulary overlap with this book; those links are inferred (see the research connections below).
How to read this page. Topics, difficulty, prerequisites and orientation are model-derived (rule-based, rule_based_v1) from bibliographic metadata such as title, subject headings and edition data. They were not produced by reading the book and are not a review. Relevance confidence is 99% and difficulty confidence is 90%; the catalogue lists no ratings or awards.