Evaluates the cost and consequences of high-speed trading, arguing that the development of automatic, super-intelligent trading machines is eliminating necessary human interests and compromising regulation measures.
Scott Patterson Books
This author delves into the intricate and often opaque worlds of finance, bringing a reporter's keen eye to complex financial regulation. Their work excels at demystifying sophisticated economic concepts for a broad audience while maintaining the depth of investigative journalism. Through compelling narrative and rigorous research, they illuminate the hidden mechanisms that shape global markets, offering readers insightful perspectives on the contemporary financial landscape.
Chaos Kings
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
"Written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar traders and high-stakes crisis predictors who strive to turn extreme events into financial windfalls. There's no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization--virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions of assets at risk." --]cPublisher marketing.
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.
Chaos Kings
Wie Wall-Street-Trader im Zeitalter der Krisen Milliarden verdienen
Die Welt wird immer extremer: Pandemien, Klimawandel, politische Radikalisierung, religiöser Fundamentalismus – all diese Entwicklungen bedrohen Billionen an Vermögenswerten. Doch es gibt eine Gruppe von Investoren, die in dieser Umgebung erst richtig gedeiht: die Chaos Kings. Einer der berühmtesten Vertreter dieser Gruppe: Hedgefonds-Manager Mark Spitznagel und sein Universa-Fonds. Scott Patterson hatte exklusiven Zugang zu den Universa-Strategen und beschreibt, wie Spitznagel mithilfe von Nassim Nicholas Taleb sein Anlagekonzept entwickelte, wie es funktioniert und welche Gegenentwürfe es gibt. Dieses fesselnde und aufschlussreiche Buch ist ein Muss für jeden, der wissen möchte, wie einige der heutigen Investoren Katastrophen in Profit umwandeln.
