Trading Thalesians: What the Ancient World Can Teach Us About Trading Today
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (894 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00MMK2S1U |
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| Number of Pages | : | 589 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Looking into a trader's mind" according to Guan Yang. I approach finance from an academic perspective, and this book gave me a great introduction to how real-world traders think and see things. The Ancient Greece framing may seem a little cute, but it's actually a useful and entertaining way to motivate topics and convey intuition, which is
It goes through ideas such as measuring risk, whether investors should try to outperform the market, Black Swans and ways of creating appropriate investment targets. It will appeal to professional traders and retail investors.. This book mixes history on the ancient world with investment ideas for traders involved in financial markets today
In this role Saeed publishes FX and gold quant strategy, drawing upon nearly a decade of experience creating and running FX trading models. Independently, he is also a systematic FX prop trader. About the Author Saeed Amen is Managing Director and co-founder of The Thalesians, a think tank of dedicated professionals with an interest in quantitative finance, economics, mathematics, physics and computer science. Prior to this Saeed was an Executive Director and FX Quant Strategist at Nomura, London, where he built up a number of systematic FX spot and volatility trading models both for clients and the trading desk which were run profitably with prop capital. Saeed began his career at Lehman Brothers, London, as an Analyst and Quant Strategist in Foreign
Saeed began his career at Lehman Brothers, London, as an Analyst and Quant Strategist in Foreign Exchange following completion of a Master's degree (MSci) in Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College, University of London. He also prepared a large body of quant FX strategy notes in areas such as