A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation

The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street by Thomas A. Bass LINKOutliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell Amazon Link not finance but about randomnessguess everyone read already, but just in case. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt (Author), Stephen J. Dubner Amazon Link They also host a Blog

QuoteOriginally posted by: alphaquantumThe Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street by Thomas A. Bass LINK I don't like this book. It takes a "gee whiz" attitude towards dubious speculation practices despite the fact that every serious person knows that chaos theory is worthless for predicting markets. What the book doesn't tell you is that this fund is no longer in existence. Basically, the book glorifies a get rich quick scheme by a bunch of physicists who want to get rich by selling magic physics math tricks. QuoteOutliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell Amazon Link not finance but about randomness Every entertaining. Author is a lay person so he's somewhat loose with the facts. Call it literary license. But, hey, I heard Gladwell made millions selling his books; he's a real writing talent. QuoteFreakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt (Author), Stephen J. Dubner Amazon Link They also host a Blog Entertaining but lightweight. By the way, none of these books are "novels".

KackToodles, agree as never before Predictors: I would not say i did not like the book, but nor I was impressed. I do not know, I found rather the opposite to glory. Usually I recommend this book to everyone who claims he/she found a new money making machine and is ready to bit the system. Outliers and Gladwell. Right, he is a very good writer. I also enjoyed reading his other two books, Blink and Tipping Point. BTW, I did not say that i agree with all his points! Some facts are more than dubious. Actually I do not expect to see breakthrough ideas in such books. So, it is ok. And, well, it goes very well with Taleb's books Freakonomics: same as Ourliers, except I liked it more.Nice thing about these type of books (and many other books mentioned in this forum) is that reading them is kind of reviewing a paper, i.e. critical and with doubts. >By the way, none of these books are "novels". kind of, but many other books proposed below are barely novels too. I added what was missing. Maybe it would make sense to mention my opinion too, but well, there are so many reviews on the net The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Paperback) by Mohsin Hamid Is this a novel for quants? Anyone? I have read the book, just curios what'syou view.

Not a novel, unrelated to quantitative finance but scientific and surprisingly inspiring for people going about all sorts of scientific-like business : "The Decipherment of Linear B" by Chadwick

QuoteOriginally posted by: bojanNot a novel, unrelated to quantitative finance but scientific and surprisingly inspiring for people going about all sorts of scientific-like business : "The Decipherment of Linear B" by ChadwickSounds good - I didn't realise that Chadwick wrote about it. Is it a dry read?