Book Review

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…

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,…