
The Quants
How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
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Scott Patterson
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In March 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT. With him was Ken Griffin, who was the tough-as-nails head of Citadel Investment Group. There, too, were Cliff Asness, the sharp-tongued, mercurial founder of the hedge fund AQR Capital Management, and Boaz Weinstein, chess “life master” and king of the credit-default swap.
Muller, Griffin, Asness, and Weinstein were among the best and brightest of a new breed, the quants. Over the past 20 years, this species of math whiz had usurped the testosterone-fueled, kill-or-be-killed risk takers who’d long been the alpha males of the world’s largest casino. The quants believed that a cocktail of differential calculus, quantum physics, and advanced geometry held the key to reaping riches from the financial markets. And they helped create a digitized money-trading machine that could shift billions around the globe with the click of a mouse. Few realized that night, though, that in creating this extraordinary system, men like Muller, Griffin, Asness, and Weinstein had sown the seeds for history’s greatest financial disaster.
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In the newly revised Second Edition of Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business, quant trading expert Dr. Ernest P. Chan shows you how to apply both time-tested and novel quantitative trading strategies to develop or improve your own trading firm. You'll discover new case studies and updated information on the application of cutting-edge machine learning investment techniques
De: Ernest P. Chan
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Black Edge
- Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
- De: Sheelah Kolhatkar
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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Steven A. Cohen changed Wall Street. He and his fellow pioneers of the hedge fund industry didn’t lay railroads, build factories, or invent new technologies. Rather, they made their billions through financial speculation, by placing bets in the market that turned out to be right more often than not.
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Amazing book about trading that feels like an adventure novel
- De Tim S en 05-24-18
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Inside the Black Box
- The Simple Truth About Quantitative Trading
- De: Rishi K. Narang
- Narrado por: Richard J. Brewer
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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Quantitative trading strategies - known to many as - black boxes - have gained a reputation of being difficult to explain and even harder to understand. While there is a certain level of complexity to this approach, with the right guidance, you can successfully overcome potential obstacles and begin to excel in this arena.
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Simply Awesome
- De JUAN EDWARD WILLIAMS en 04-01-21
De: Rishi K. Narang
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More Money Than God
- Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
- De: Sebastian Mallaby
- Narrado por: Alan Nebelthau
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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The Paul Volker Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington Post journalist Sebastian Mallaby has garnered New York Times Editor’s Choice and Notable Book honors for his enthralling nonfiction. Bolstered by Mallaby’s unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007–2009.
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Valiant effort but lacking analytic horsepower...
- De ND en 01-10-11
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Unknown Market Wizards
- The Best Traders You've Never Heard Of
- De: Jack D. Schwager
- Narrado por: DJ Holte
- Duración: 12 h
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Unknown Market Wizards continues in the three-decade tradition of the hugely popular Market Wizards series, interviewing exceptionally successful traders to learn how they achieved their extraordinary performance results. The twist in Unknown Market Wizards is that the featured traders are individuals trading their own accounts. They are unknown to the investment world. Despite their anonymity, these traders have achieved performance records that rival, if not surpass, the best professional managers.
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Great book but one stupid remark by Author
- De Spencer morneweck en 01-26-21
De: Jack D. Schwager
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The Fund
- Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
- De: Rob Copeland
- Narrado por: Rob Copeland, Will Damron
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Ray Dalio does not want you to listen to this audiobook. Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international admiration and fame thanks to his company’s eye-popping success, coupled with a mystique he encouraged with frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, Principles.
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Best finance book I've read in years
- De Aaron en 12-16-23
De: Rob Copeland
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The New Market Wizards
- Conversations with America's Top Traders
- De: Jack D. Schwager
- Narrado por: DJ Holte
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In The New Market Wizards, successful traders relate the financial strategies that have rocketed them to success. Asking questions that listeners with an interest or involvement in the financial markets would love to pose to the financial superstars, Jack D. Schwager encourages these financial wizards to share their insights. Entertaining, informative, and invaluable, The New Market Wizards is destined to become another Schwager classic.
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Good insight, even for experienced traders
- De josh en 09-27-16
De: Jack D. Schwager
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The Bond King
- How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All
- De: Mary Childs
- Narrado por: Mary Childs
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Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards. Ten thousand dollars and countless casino bans later, he was hooked, so he enrolled in business school. The Bond King is the story of how that whiz kid made American finance his casino.
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Being a good writer does not make you a good narrator
- De John Mallory en 05-14-22
De: Mary Childs
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When Genius Failed
- The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
- De: Roger Lowenstein
- Narrado por: Roger Lowenstein
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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Roger Lowenstein, the bestselling author of Buffett, captures Long-Term's roller-coaster ride in gripping detail. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein crafts a story that reads like a first-rate thriller from beginning to end. He explains not just how the fund made and lost its money, but what it was about the personalities of Long-Term's partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the late-nineties culture of Wall Street that made it all possible.
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When Genius Failed
- De Sean en 12-17-08
De: Roger Lowenstein
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Advances in Financial Machine Learning
- De: Marcos Lopez de Prado
- Narrado por: Steven Jay Cohen
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Machine learning (ML) is changing virtually every aspect of our lives. Today ML algorithms accomplish tasks that until recently only expert humans could perform. As it relates to finance, this is the most exciting time to adopt a disruptive technology that will transform how everyone invests for generations. The book addresses real-life problems faced by practitioners on a daily basis and explains scientifically sound solutions using math, supported by code and examples.
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Beware - not suited to audio-book format.
- De Theo en 07-10-18
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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time
- A Long Short Story
- De: David Einhorn
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
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At its most basic level, Allied Capital is the story of Wall Street at its worst. But the story is much bigger than one little-known company. Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is an important call for effective law enforcement, free speech, and fair play.
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where's the epilogue?
- De James Klein en 02-02-11
De: David Einhorn
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How to Invest
- De: David M. Rubenstein
- Narrado por: David M. Rubenstein, Ray Dalio, Marc Andreessen, y otros
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What do the most successful investors have in common? David M. Rubenstein, cofounder of one of the world’s largest investment firms, has spent years interviewing the greatest investors in the world to discover the time-tested principles, hard-earned wisdom, and indispensable tools that guide their practice. Rubenstein, who has spent more than three decades in the hypercompetitive world of private equity, now distills everything he’s learned about the art and craft of investing, from venture capital, real estate, private equity, hedge funds, to crypto, endowments, SPACs, ESG, and more.
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Only get the audio book
- De Joe en 09-26-22
Really good story telling to understand the history of the quants and the impact they have had
Very good telling about quants
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A novel with a market ambiance
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Very intersting and engaging...
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If you're looking for entertaining stories about wall st and trading, this is not really the book for you.
It's a great backstory that walks you through the original algorithmic traders on wall st and how their quantitative analysis strategies evolved from trying to beat the dealer at blackjack or game the roulette wheel, to running the world's financial markets.
Not so much about high speed trading, this book talks a lot about the theory of using computer algorithms to trade and find an "edge" against human traders.
There's really interesting backstories behind the role that the quants played during "Black Monday" in the 80s, the collapse of LTCM in the late 90s, the 2007/2008 derivatives bubble.
I did not realize that most of the financial voodoo products like CDOs, credit default swaps, options trading, etc were mostly instruments created by quant traders.
Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan makes an appearance a few times in this book.
If you google "wall street trading floor" you will see the pictures of barren wall st trading floors with a tiny fraction of traders compared to what you'll probably remember from the movies. This is thanks to "the quants".
Computer algorithmic trading systems have depreciated the traditional wall st trader.
We are now in an era where Artificial Intelligence is shifting the market once again...who knows how this will work out.
Overall, this was a great book with lots of solid information about the previous generations of hedge funds and trading methods used by the biggest funds in the world.
It gets boring sometimes, it probably could have been about 30% shorter.
Dence book, not recommended as a casual read
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key lessons I rescue form the book:
1) statics that we use for explaining the universe does not apply to price movements (in fact would be an error)
2) risk management (leverage, position sizing) it's still the hollygrail of trading. just like in poker. and from my point of view, the way the small guy can still beat the market.
3) things are only going to accelerate (volatility?)
4) "for a man with a hammer every problem seems like a nail" , Charlie Munger referring to quants that forgot rule 1.
risk management the secret of trading
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Great book for financial and math types
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amazing
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Learnt about Quants I didnt really know
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Of course, understanding the level of hubris involved in this culture is part of understanding how and why it lead to the outcomes it did, so it was essential to cover that. Just too much of a good thing here.
One concluding suggestion: if you decide to invest your time and attention into the offering, make sure you have already done the same or will follow this title up with Taleb's "The Black Swan." Its a great counterpoint this.
Too much, too little and just right
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Great review of financial engineering principles
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