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Howard L. Simons
Howard L. Simons, Special Academic Advisor to NQLX, has a broad and deep background in financial markets. In addition to his duties with NQLX, Mr. Simons is a Contributing Editor of Futures Magazine, wherein he has published more than ninety articles since 1994, and writes the weekly Futures Shock column for TheStreet.com, on which he has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of The Dynamic Option Selection System: Analyzing Markets & Managing Risk (John Wiley & Sons, 1999).
Mr. Simons began his career as an economist with the Amoco Corporation, and then was the managing consultant for energy with Data Resources, Inc. He began designing econometric trading systems for crude oil traders and providing fundamental analyses for financial market traders. He returned to Amoco to design and run its hydrocarbon price risk management program, and then moved to the commodity brokerage side of the industry as the director of research for FIMAT USA. He served as a professor of finance at the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1994 through 2003, where he taught classes in futures markets, market analysis and trading system design, fixed income trading stratgies, energy market derivatives and advanced topics in market analysis.
Mr. Simons' educational background includes as BA in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University, a MA in international economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a MBA in finance and econometrics from the University of Chicago.
The Dynamic Option Selection System: Analysing Markets and Managing Risk
More on this books at the Global Investor Bookshop
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set hi... Read more at the GI Bookshop
Enemy at the Gates
Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It was perhaps the single ... Read more at the GI Bookshop
Guns of August
"The Guns of August" is the narrative history of the first month of World War I. It describes the strategies of the generals, the preparation and mora... Read more at the GI Bookshop
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Distinguished British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set off a series of movements that drastically altered the ways in which economists vi... Read more at the GI Bookshop
The Road to Serfdom
This work remains one of the all-time classics of 20th-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers... Read more at the GI Bookshop
When Genius Failed
John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best - and the brainiest... Read more at the GI Bookshop
Profile of Howard L. Simons
Biography
Howard L. Simons, Special Academic Advisor to NQLX, has a broad and deep background in financial markets. In addition to his duties with NQLX, Mr. Simons is a Contributing Editor of Futures Magazine, wherein he has published more than ninety articles since 1994, and writes the weekly Futures Shock column for TheStreet.com, on which he has published more than 200 articles. He is the author of The Dynamic Option Selection System: Analyzing Markets & Managing Risk (John Wiley & Sons, 1999).Mr. Simons began his career as an economist with the Amoco Corporation, and then was the managing consultant for energy with Data Resources, Inc. He began designing econometric trading systems for crude oil traders and providing fundamental analyses for financial market traders. He returned to Amoco to design and run its hydrocarbon price risk management program, and then moved to the commodity brokerage side of the industry as the director of research for FIMAT USA. He served as a professor of finance at the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1994 through 2003, where he taught classes in futures markets, market analysis and trading system design, fixed income trading stratgies, energy market derivatives and advanced topics in market analysis.
Mr. Simons' educational background includes as BA in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University, a MA in international economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a MBA in finance and econometrics from the University of Chicago.
Books by Howard L. Simons
The Dynamic Option Selection System: Analysing Markets and Managing RiskMore on this books at the Global Investor Bookshop
Book Recommendations
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set hi... Read more at the GI Bookshop
Enemy at the GatesStalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It was perhaps the single ... Read more at the GI Bookshop
Guns of August"The Guns of August" is the narrative history of the first month of World War I. It describes the strategies of the generals, the preparation and mora... Read more at the GI Bookshop
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyDistinguished British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set off a series of movements that drastically altered the ways in which economists vi... Read more at the GI Bookshop
The Road to SerfdomThis work remains one of the all-time classics of 20th-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers... Read more at the GI Bookshop
When Genius FailedJohn Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best - and the brainiest... Read more at the GI Bookshop
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