My life would have been way easier if I had read this book while in college. It has what many other books lack, and that is explanations on how to carry out the different estimation methods in commonly used software packages such as E-Views and RATS. As for its contents, it has an excellent coverage on the topics that concern those who work with financial time series. It is a good summary of the econometric techniques used for high-frequency data. The explanations are simple and clear and it has a very practical approach. I would only add to this book a CD with the time series with which the estimations were run.