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Patterson explains how hedge funds combined techniques of arbitrage and hedging using complex computerdriven models one was named midas to reduce. The pervasive poker theory forces patterson into a straightjacket as regards his casting decisionscolourful though these depicted characters prove to beand he assigns the label quant to those who do not seem to merit it and blame for the economic crisis of 2008 to these same quants in what, in my humble opinion, is a mostly erroneous and misplaced determination of guilt. In the quants he does an admirable job of debunking the myths of black box traders and provides a very entertaining narrative in the process. These guys have transformed wall street making themselves billionaires and making the markets potentially more dangerous than the infamously volatile, planetthreatening, krakatao volcano. Bandits, and the threat to the global financial system free epub, mobi, pdf ebooks download, ebook torrents download. How accurately does scott pattersons the quants portray. Scott patterson tracks the mathematical geniuses or genii known as the quants. In march of 2006, the worlds richest men sipped champagne in an opulent new york hotel. To read about what the daytoday of doing the work of a quant is like, a better book would be something like my life as a quant.
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