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发表于2024-05-15
The Quants 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
宽客产生的最根本的原因在于科技进步,有了强大的电脑,我们有了数据库,再加上互联网带来的资源共享,以往没有的数据现在都有了。 人类的数学从欧几里得就有了很严格的体系,到了牛顿时代,数学的应用得到了空前的发展。 但是对于金融市场,数学的应用则...
评分顶级数学家计算机天才们在华尔街用数学加计算机预测股市变化大发横财的真实记录,虽然最后导致了08年金融危机,但是他们对数学的极致思考与应用达到了普通人无法企及的高度,真正的知识运用的典范。不过无可否认的是他们的掘金方式就是各种投机和各种金融衍生品,而忽视了市场...
评分接触到这本书是因为最近在了解投资理财方面的内容,了解到有量化投资,进而知道有宽客这个职业。出于好奇,在知乎上找各种关于宽客的帖子,各种介绍很多,但都比较零碎,所以一直想找一个比较系统介绍宽客的内容,后来偶然在看看豆翻金融类目电子书的时候看到《宽客》这本书,...
评分可以拿来当作野史读。 本书作者有神奇的魔力,把各种野史绘声绘色的写得如同亲身经历一样。 但是,你要想了解一些技术性的东西,抱歉,真的乏善可陈。能把统计套利的原理解释清楚已经费了作者很大的脑力。至于次贷危机中那些复杂的金融衍生品和导致危机的错误,这有什么好说...
评分可以拿来当作野史读。 本书作者有神奇的魔力,把各种野史绘声绘色的写得如同亲身经历一样。 但是,你要想了解一些技术性的东西,抱歉,真的乏善可陈。能把统计套利的原理解释清楚已经费了作者很大的脑力。至于次贷危机中那些复杂的金融衍生品和导致危机的错误,这有什么好说...
图书标签: 金融 Quant finance 数学 投资 交易 次贷危机 Finance
“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.”
--Warren Buffett
In March of 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. They were accustomed to risking billions.
At the card table that night was Peter Muller, an eccentric, whip-smart whiz kid who’d studied theoretical mathematics at Princeton and now managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT…when he wasn’t playing his keyboard for morning commuters on the New York subway. With him was Ken Griffin, who as an undergraduate trading convertible bonds out of his Harvard dorm room had outsmarted the Wall Street pros and made money in one of the worst bear markets of all time. Now he was the tough-as-nails head of Citadel Investment Group, one of the most powerful money machines on earth. There too were Cliff Asness, the sharp-tongued, mercurial founder of the hedge fund AQR, a man as famous for his computer-smashing rages as for his brilliance, and Boaz Weinstein, chess life-master and king of the credit default swap, who while juggling $30 billion worth of positions for Deutsche Bank found time for frequent visits to Las Vegas with the famed MIT card-counting team.
On that night in 2006, these four men and their cohorts were the new kings of Wall Street. Muller, Griffin, Asness, and Weinstein were among the best and brightest of a new breed, the quants . Over the prior twenty years, this species of math whiz --technocrats who make billions not with gut calls or fundamental analysis but with formulas and high-speed computers-- had usurped the testosterone-fueled, kill-or-be-killed risk-takers who’d long been the alpha males the world’s largest casino. The quants believed that a dizzying, indecipherable-to-mere-mortals cocktail of differential calculus, quantum physics, and advanced geometry held the key to reaping riches from the financial markets. And they helped create a digitized money-trading machine that could shift billions around the globe with the click of a mouse.
Few realized that night, though, that in creating this unprecedented machine, men like Muller, Griffin, Asness and Weinstein had sowed the seeds for history’s greatest financial disaster.
Drawing on unprecedented access to these four number-crunching titans, The Quants tells the inside story of what they thought and felt in the days and weeks when they helplessly watched much of their net worth vaporize – and wondered just how their mind-bending formulas and genius-level IQ’s had led them so wrong, so fast. Had their years of success been dumb luck, fool’s gold, a good run that could come to an end on any given day? What if The Truth they sought -- the secret of the markets -- wasn’t knowable? Worse, what if there wasn’t any Truth?
In The Quants , Scott Patterson tells the story not just of these men, but of Jim Simons, the reclusive founder of the most successful hedge fund in history; Aaron Brown, the quant who used his math skills to humiliate Wall Street’s old guard at their trademark game of Liar’s Poker, and years later found himself with a front-row seat to the rapid emergence of mortgage-backed securities; and gadflies and dissenters such as Paul Wilmott, Nassim Taleb, and Benoit Mandelbrot.
With the immediacy of today’s NASDAQ close and the timeless power of a Greek tragedy, The Quants is at once a masterpiece of explanatory journalism, a gripping tale of ambition and hubris…and an ominous warning about Wall Street’s future.
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评分2011.9.13 不知道为什么这类书很容易写成胡吹的bullshit. You can learn nothing form it.
评分开始的几个chapter follow比较慢,作者从citadel, morgan stanley, goldman, deutsch bank的四个quant的poker game开始,很遗憾不是很technical,对stab arb,cdo的解释都不是很好,但是可读性高尤其是07,08年的quant meltdown写的很生动,也就看一下作为学习资料不理想,不如直接看notes, reference,和glossary。
评分开始的几个chapter follow比较慢,作者从citadel, morgan stanley, goldman, deutsch bank的四个quant的poker game开始,很遗憾不是很technical,对stab arb,cdo的解释都不是很好,但是可读性高尤其是07,08年的quant meltdown写的很生动,也就看一下作为学习资料不理想,不如直接看notes, reference,和glossary。
评分文笔和组织很赞,金融工程的大史略。
The Quants 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书