THE MAN WHO SOLVED THE MARKET
How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
By Gregory Zuckerman
The unbelievable story of a secretive mathematician who pioneered the era of the algorithm – and made USD23 billion doing it.
Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. No other investor – Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, Steve Cohen, or George Soros – can touch his record.
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DUAL MOMENTUM INVESTING
An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk
By Gary Antonacci
The Dual Momentum approach is simple and effective: By combining both relative momentum and absolute momentum (i.e. trend following), Dual Momentum seeks to rotate into areas of relative strength while preserving the flexibility to shift entirely to safety assets (e.g. short-term U.S. Treasury bills) during periods of pervasive, negative trends.
This book presents an easy-to-understand, straightforward model that transforms momentum concepts into an actionable investing strategy called Global Equity Momentum (GEM).
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THE BIGGEST BLUFF
How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
By Maria Konnikova
Maria Konnikova uses her own experience learning to beat the odds at poker to examine how much of life is chance and skill.
An inspired investigation of “the struggle for balance on the spectrum of luck and control in the lives we lead, and the decisions we make,” partway between memoir, primer on the psychology of decision-making, and playbook for life.
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Is growth in China soaring or slowing?
The answer depends on how you calculate growth
The Economist
Since last March, when the country emerged from its covid-19 closures, a wide range of indicators, from metro ridership to export orders, have pointed upwards. But because the convention in China is to report GDP in year-on-year terms, it is only now that the recovery makes a dramatic appearance in its most-watched data series.
