I have been meaning to read this Quantitative Trading book for quite sometime however I didn’t see the point until I got Matlab up and running. The book is a lot shorter then I expected yet still manages to cover some important topics. The table of contents is shown below: Quantitative Trading How to Build…
Book Review: Quantitative Trading How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business by Ernest Chan
By Mark | Published March 23rd, 2010Anti Book Review: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By Mark | Published June 26th, 2008After reading fooled by randomness, I was very keen to read Taleb’s follow up The Black Swan. I really had high expectations of The Black Swan it was one of the best selling non-fiction book on Amazon.com for 2007. After reading The Black Swan it is very evident that no words I can write in…
Book Review: The Four Hour Work Week
By Mark | Published April 21st, 2008The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich: Timothy Ferriss: Books ISBN: 0307353133 ISBN-13: 9780307353139 How would you like to work only four hours a week whilst maintaining or even increasing your income? I have to say I would and that is what lead me to purchasing this book. I had…
Book Review: Fooled by Randomness
By Mark | Published March 13th, 2008Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets No doubt you have heard about or probably even read Nassim Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness. It definitely is a classic and a must read for any trader. Taleb is an experienced derivatives trader, holds a MBA from Wharton and a PhD…
Book Review: An American Hedge Fund: How I Made $2 million as a Stock Operator and Created a Hedge Fund
By Mark | Published January 2nd, 2008An American Hedge Fund: How I Made $2 Million as a Stock Operator & Created a Hedge Fund: Books: Timothy SykesISBN: 0979549701ISBN-13: 9780979549700 Timothy Sykes is nearly impossible to slap a conventional label on. He has managed to achieve what some people take a lifetime to achieve in just 26 years. He has been trader,…
Book Review: The Complete Turtle Trader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results
By Mark | Published December 10th, 2007Amazon.com: The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results: Books: Michael W. Covel ISBN: 0061241709 ISBN-13: 9780061241703 The turtle trading experiment came about after a dispute between Richard Dennis and Bill Eckhardt on the issue of weather great traders were born or made. Dennis had the view that an individual could be taught to…
Trading Book Review Way of the Turtle
By Mark | Published October 17th, 2007Amazon.com: Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders: Books: Curtis FaithISBN: 007148664X ISBN-13: 9780071486644 Way of the turtle begins with an explanation of the initial Turtle Trading experiment. This experiment came about after a dispute between Richard Dennis and Bill Eckhardt on the issue of weather great traders…

