The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street. A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp invented card counting, proving the seemingly impossible: that you could beat the dealer at the bla...(展开全部)

The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street. A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp invented card counting, proving the seemingly impossible: that you could beat the dealer at the bla...(展开全部)

Nicolas Darvas, the man who made $2,000,000 in the stock market in his spare time, shows you exactly how he answers the all-important question: "Which stocks are going to make money for me?" In this book, Darvas first portrays the market he knows so intimately - the gambling house with dealers on one side, winners on the other. He also shows how he places the odds in his fav...(展开全部)

爱德华·O.索普（Edward O. Thorp） 加州大学尔湾分校数学系教授。之前，他是新墨西哥州立大学的数学系副教授；1959~1961年，他是麻省理工学院的C.L.E摩尔教师。1958年索普在加州大学洛杉矶分校获得数学博士学位，他的一个主要研究领域是概率－博弈理论。他是美国数学协会和爱丁堡数学协会会员。 除了数学教授的身份以外，1969年，索普与合伙人成立了可转换对冲基金，这是史上第一家量化对冲基金。应用可转债套利策略，索普在股票市场所向披靡。从1970年开始，基金连续十几年获得两位数的回报。20世纪80年代，索普又成立了专门采用统计套利策略的基金，也大获成功。1985年11月，标准普尔指数下跌20%，索普的基金增长为12%。1987年10月华尔街崩盘，而索普基金1987年总盈利高达27%。 1992年爱德华·索普开始淡出市场，但他开创了一个时...(展开全部)

The empowering story of Larry Hite’s unlikely rise to the top of the hedge fund world―with critical insights and lessons you can take to the bank In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially blind kid who was anything but a model student―and how he went on to found and run Mint Invest...(展开全部)

The empowering story of Larry Hite’s unlikely rise to the top of the hedge fund world―with critical insights and lessons you can take to the bank In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially blind kid who was anything but a model student―and how he went on to found and run Mint Invest...(展开全部)

Crisp, jargon-free and self-assured, this memoir traces a famous economist's rise from rural Germany to the top of Wall Street. Born in a remote farming village in the upper Hessen region in 1927, Kaufman emigrated to America at age 10, when his family left Nazi Germany after a raid on their house. In New York, his lack of English put him four years behind in school, although K...(展开全部)

Crisp, jargon-free and self-assured, this memoir traces a famous economist's rise from rural Germany to the top of Wall Street. Born in a remote farming village in the upper Hessen region in 1927, Kaufman emigrated to America at age 10, when his family left Nazi Germany after a raid on their house. In New York, his lack of English put him four years behind in school, although K...(展开全部)

Crisp, jargon-free and self-assured, this memoir traces a famous economist's rise from rural Germany to the top of Wall Street. Born in a remote farming village in the upper Hessen region in 1927, Kaufman emigrated to America at age 10, when his family left Nazi Germany after a raid on their house. In New York, his lack of English put him four years behind in school, although K...(展开全部)

Crisp, jargon-free and self-assured, this memoir traces a famous economist's rise from rural Germany to the top of Wall Street. Born in a remote farming village in the upper Hessen region in 1927, Kaufman emigrated to America at age 10, when his family left Nazi Germany after a raid on their house. In New York, his lack of English put him four years behind in school, although K...(展开全部)