The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals

If you're looking for the nuts and bolts on how capital markets around the world work this book is hands down the best there is. https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Quantitative-Professionals-M... (https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Quantitative-Professionals-McGraw-Hill-Investment/dp/0071468293) Equities, Futures, Rate Swaps, Options, Credit, Treasury, Corporate, Municipal, Mortgage and Agency Bonds. Then the technology that supports it all. It is not only a fantastic high level view, but it get granular enough to explain things like how US Treasuries prices quoted in 32nds of a dollar or how fixed income securities are identified by something called a CUSIP or what a strike price is for an option. Granular enough to explain practical day to day concepts that would help you at your first job in a financial firm.