Book Reviews

Book Review: Quantitative Trading How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business by Ernest Chan

By Mark | Published March 23rd, 2010

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…

Anti Book Review: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

By Mark | Published June 26th, 2008

After 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, 2008

The 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, 2008

Fooled 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, 2008

An 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, 2007

Amazon.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, 2007

Amazon.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…