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Title: The Education of a Speculator by Victor Niederhoffer ISBN: 0-471-24948-3 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.3 (71 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Very Biographical
Comment: Very statistical in nature! A good book for its time (97)!
After this book I became a rational gambler (and lost a lot of money) then went to graduate school to study statistics and the games of chance. Vic describes the life of a speculator from playing street games to the trading floor. Vic draws material from disciplines as varied as biology, music, cards, and sports to describe the rational mind of a "rational gambler" It gives you a sense of how a statistcal mind operates. After having read the book I went from the streets to grad school and the trading and I think it has been very exciting trip.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is a very interesting book...and an interesting man
Comment: This book will make you think about trading, life, and speculation. And make you see that trading, and life itself are speculation. Once you know this you can also realize that the majority of people in society are followers and irational. That to bet with them or use their reasoning is almost always foolish. People in life look for sure things... same with many in the market. Others don't look at risks and jump... just like life and the markets. So your goals is to think like the few who think different and win, by using your head. It amazes me to see how many people regard certain things as life and market truisms when they are just based on slogins and irational thinking. There is a reason why the few win...and the many lose...and that is what this book is about...in life and the markets.
Rating: 1
Summary: Go broke the scientific way
Comment: The scientific method seems to be main message of the book. If you can't quantify it don't trade it. At least that's the theory. In reality the book gives us a tour of every wrinkle in Victor Niederhoffer's bellybutton. His childhood in Brighton Beach, his misfortunes at playing squash and at Harvard, his would be academic career, how he got Soros to mistrust him, and finally his own hedge fund before it went belly-up the scientific way. All stories seem to have the same message: VN is the greatest person in the universe (second only to his dad) and were it not for other people's stupidity (the meme!) he'd be on top of the world. Give me a break.
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Title: Practical Speculation by Victor Niederhoffer, Laurel Kenner ISBN: 0471443069 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 21 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre, Marketplace Books ISBN: 0471059706 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 11 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life, First Edition by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ISBN: 1587990717 Publisher: Thomson Texere Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Market Wizards : Interviews with Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager ISBN: 0887306101 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 27 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: How I Made 2,000,000 in the Stock Market by Nicolas Darvas, Nicolas Darvas ISBN: 0818403969 Publisher: Lyle Stuart Hardcover Pub. Date: April, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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