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The Quants
How would you feel if you outperformed the market, year after year?Would you become convinced that the good times were here to stay, that nothing could possibly go wrong? And how would you then feel if everything suddenly collapsed around you? Quants
Outside Sales
Outside Sales is the fourth and final installment of Mans quest to join the Cosmic Country Club. Join our favorite Tennessee boys as they take off for the stars, moonshine in tow.
Summary of Scott Patterson's The Quants
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Wall Street Poker Night Tournament was held on March 8, 2006. More than a hundred well-heeled players attended the event, including elite traders and buttoned-down dealmakers. The small, private affair was a gathering of a select group of wealthy and brilliant individuals. #2 By the early 2000s, quants had come to dominate Wall Street, using brain-twisting math to pluck billions in fleeting dollars out of the market. They couldn’t care less about a company’s fundamentals. #3 The quants ran a private poker game, but traditional investment titans joined in. Carl Icahn, the billionaire financier who’d gotten his start on Wall Street with $4,000 in poker winnings, was a regular. #4 The players got down to business. A melodic chime summoned stragglers into the main room, where vested dealers waited behind scattered rows of card tables. The game was Texas Hold’em. The action was cordial on the surface, but cutthroat between the lines.
Dark Pools
Scott Patterson chronicles the next-generation financial threat - the growing embrace of artificial intelligence and the chilling prospect that soon so much trading will be ceded to computers that humans will cease to know exactly what is going on or what could happen.
The Newberg Report
The Newberg Report pulls back the curtain on The Texas Rangers baseball team by taking a look at everything from what the organization does to the intuitive emphasis on the ¿how¿ and the ¿why.¿ The book, now in its 10th edition, encourages casual fans to get more involved while providing hardcore fans with a forum to discuss their beloved team. It¿s written by ¿baseball guru¿ Jamey Newberg.
The Quants
You're a genius. Nobody plays the financial markets better than you. What could possibly go wrong? Quants - quantitative analysts - were the maths masterminds let loose on Wall Street in the belief that their brilliant, impregnable computer programs would always beat the market. But as the catastrophic events of 2007 and 2008 showed, their seemingly failproof methods were little more than ticking timebombs. Inspired by the 'Godfather of Quants' - maths-professor-turned-gambler Ed Thorp, who began applying skills learned at the Vegas tables to the financial markets back in the 1950s - the quants achieved extraordinary success and massive wealth. This book charts their rise from obscurity to boom and then to bust, explaining why they were so confident - and how they got it so disastrously wrong.
Summary of Scott Patterson's Dark Pools
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Bodek, the founder of Trading Machines, was a wizard of data. He had made a career of crunching masses of numbers and finding form inside chaos. To discover order in the ocean of information that made up the market, he required incredible computer power. #2 Bodek was a legendary talker. He had risen to the top of the trading world, working first at an elite Chicago firm called Hull Trading, then inside a top secret quantitative derivatives operation at Goldman Sachs. In 2007, he broke out on his own and launched Trading Machines. #3 Bodek’s team was getting poached by competitors, and he was doing all the work of three employees to keep the ship afloat. He couldn’t do much more, and he needed everyone to pitch in if the firm was going to right itself. #4 Bodek’s Trading Machines was having a nightmare in 2009. Its profits were dropping sharply. Bodek began to track the Spyder, one of his favorite ETFs, and saw it begin to move downward.
Chaos Kings
"Written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar traders and high-stakes crisis predictors who strive to turn extreme events into financial windfalls. There's no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization--virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions of assets at risk." --
Lumina
This book exemplifies the brilliance that ran deep in the minds of five who had a burning desire to reach for the stars and who eventually decided to take that leap. Each author has added a different well-seasoned dish to this unique smorgasbord of written food-for-the-soul. The detail, delivery, flow, and suspense, contained within will be sure to awaken long asleep emotion and desire. While the subject matter is the same, the individual spin that each writer puts on his/her version will give you the pleasure of reading something new, fresh, and original. Themes of love, tragedy, abandonment, denial, and sacrifice, all interplay to deliver pleasure, unity, imagination unmatched. This wonderful work will surely earn a permanent place on your list of favorites!
