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The Quants: The maths geniuses who brought down Wall Street (Paperback)
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The Quants: The maths geniuses who brought down Wall Street (Paperback)

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Paperback 352 Pages
Published: 07/04/2011
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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.

Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9781847940599
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 245 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm


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Mr Patterson is onto a big story that already begs follow-up ... a riveting account The Quants ... radiates with hubris, high stakes and pricey toys [an] intriguing history of the Quants...[Patterson] explains how hedge funds combined techniques of arbitrage and hedging using complex computer-driven models (one was named Midas) to reduce the risk of making losing bets Patterson paints a clear picture of the history and evolution of quantitative trading on Wall Street, before shifting focus to the 'crisis before the crisis' in which a number of quant funds almost collapsed in 2007...definitely worth reading for an in depth analysis of one of the points in recent financial history where things may have started to go awry

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