Trading Risk: Enhanced Profitability through Risk Control

No trader, professional or individual, can afford not to have asolid risk management program integrated into his or her tradingsystem. But finding a precise mathematical model to replacesubjective decision-making processes is a challenge. Traditionally,risk management has focused solely on loss avoidance, but inTrading Risk, hedge fund risk manager Kenneth Grant presentssome-thing completely new—how to manage a portfolio tominimize risk and increase profits by putting more capital at risk.Trading Risk details a risk management program that can help bothmoney managers and individual traders evaluate which elements in aportfolio are working efficiently and which aren’t. Byillustrating an extremely simple set of statistical and arithmetictools this book can help readers enhance their performance in manyfinancial markets.

Kenneth L.Grant is Cheyne’s Global Risk Manager, and isthe Managing Member for Cheyne Capital, LLC, the firm’s U.S.arm. Mr. Grant is a pioneer in the field of hedge fund riskmanagement and capital allocation. Before joining Cheyne, hecreated risk control programs at two of the world’s leadinghedge funds, Tudor Investments and SAC Capital, where he waseventually promoted to the title of Chief Investment Strategist.Mr. Grant holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Mathematicsfrom the University of Wisconsin, an MA in Economics from ColumbiaUniversity, and an MBA from the University of Chicago GraduateSchool of Business.