  This paper acts as a collection of various trading strategies and useful
pieces of market information that might help to implement such strategies. This
list is meant to be comprehensive (though by no means exhaustive) and hence we
only provide pointers and give further sources to explore each strategy
further. To set the stage for this exploration, we consider the factors that
determine good and bad trades, the notions of market efficiency, the real
prospect amidst the seemingly high expectations of homogeneous expectations
from human beings and the catch-22 connotations that arise while comprehending
the true meaning of rational investing. We can broadly classify trading ideas
and client market color material into Delta-One and Derivative strategies since
this acts as a natural categorization that depends on the expertise of the
various trading desks that will implement these strategies. For each strategy,
we will have a core idea and we will present different flavors of this central
theme to demonstrate that we can easily cater to the varying risk appetites,
regional preferences, asset management styles, investment philosophies,
liability constraints, investment horizons, notional trading size, trading
frequency and other preferences of different market participants.
