Hedge fund market wizards
by Jack D. Schwager · first published 2012
100% recommend
Why HN recommends it
Interviews with successful hedge fund managers about how they win in markets. The book profiles traders and recounts stories of figures such as Thorp, suiting readers curious about investing and trading.
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"Hedge Fund Market Wizards will be a modern day sequel to the highly successful Market Wizards and New Market Wizards written over 20 years ago. These two earlier volumes have become classics in the investment literature and have been read by virtually every hedge fund manager, as well as by a much broader lay audience. This new volume in the series will follow the same effective formula used by its predecessors. The book will devote a chapter to each of a broad array of highly successful traders, ranging widely in the markets they trade and their methodologies, but sharing in their achievemen
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…Traders https://www.amazon.com/Market-Wizards-Updated-Interviews-Tra... The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders https://www.amazon.com/New-Market-Wizards-Conversations-Amer... Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning/dp/...
on “Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?” ↗…was also involved in developing the Blackjack system that was showcased in the film 21 and later ran a hedge fund, details on which were recounted in his interview for this book https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning/dp/.... Very interesting guy.
on “Exposing high-end poker cheating devices” ↗…series by Jack Schwagger is highly recommended: https://www.amazon.com/Market-Wizards-Updated-Interviews-Tra... https://www.amazon.com/New-Market-Wizards-Conversations-Amer... https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning/dp/...
on “Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?” ↗…interesting to you. [1] Market Wizards - https://www.amazon.com/Market-Wizards-Jack-D-Schwager/dp/088... [2] The New Market Wizards - https://www.amazon.com/New-Market-Wizards-Conversations-Amer... [3] Hedge Fund Market Wizards - https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning/dp/...
on “Ask HN: Whats the best way for a Software Engineer to learn finance?” ↗…words https://www.amazon.com/The-Money-Masters-John-Train/dp/08873... https://www.amazon.com/Money-Masters-Time-John-Train/dp/0887... https://www.amazon.com/New-Money-Masters-John-Train/dp/08873... Market Wizards; The New Market Wizards; Hedge Fund Market Wizards, by Jack D. Schwager. Interviews of successful traders https://www.amazon.com/Market-Wizards-Jack-D-Schwager/dp/088... https://www.amazon.com/The-New-Market-Wizards-Conversations/... https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning/dp/...…
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on “U.S. stock markets are rigged, says author Michael Lewis” ↗The Market Wizards series is great. I've just finished Hedge Fund market wizards. Niederhoffer's the education of a speculator is another great read.
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