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A mathematician plays the stock market

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Offers a mathematical perspective on the stock market and the human dream of wealth, covering such topics as data mining, momentum investing, the Elliot Wave Theory, and Warren Buffet's fundamental analysis.

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Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
216

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Cover of: Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
2007, Basic Books
in English
Cover of: Un Matemático Invierte en la Bolsa
Un Matemático Invierte en la Bolsa
June 2005, TusQuets
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: A Mathematician Plays the Market
A Mathematician Plays the Market: He Figured the Odds, And They Still Beat Him
June 24, 2004, Penguin Books Ltd
Paperback in English
Cover of: A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market
A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market
May 4, 2004, Basic Books
in English
Cover of: A mathematician plays the market
A mathematician plays the market
2003, Allen Lane
in English
Cover of: A mathematician plays the market
A mathematician plays the market
2003, Allen Lane
in English
Cover of: A mathematician plays the stock market
A mathematician plays the stock market
2003, MJF Books
in English
Cover of: A mathematician plays the stock market
A mathematician plays the stock market
2003, Basic Books
in English
Cover of: A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
May 13, 2003, Basic Books
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Table of Contents

Anticipating Others' Anticipations
Falling in Love with WorldCom
Being Right Versus Being Right About the Market
My Pedagogical Cruelty
Common Knowledge, Jealousy, and Market Sell-Offs
Fear, Greed, and Cognitive Illusions
Averaging Down or Catching a Falling Knife?
Emotional Overreactions and Homo Economicus
Behavioral Finance
Psychological Foibles, A List
Self-Fulfilling Beliefs and Data Mining
Rumors and Online Chatrooms
Pump and Dump, Short and Distort
Trends, Crowds, and Waves
Technical Analysis: Following the Followers
The Euro and the Golden Ratio
Moving Averages, Big Picture
Resistance and Support and All That
Predictability and Trends
Technical Strategies and Blackjack
Winning Through Losing?
Chance and Efficient Markets
Geniuses, Idiots, or Neither
Efficiency and Random Walks
Pennies and the Perception of Pattern
A Stock-Newsletter Scam
Decimals and Other Changes
Benford's Law and Looking Out for Number One
The Numbers Man
A Screen Treatment
Value Investing and Fundamental Analysis
e is the Root of All Money
The Fundamentalists' Creed: You Get What You Pay For
Ponzi and the Irrational Discounting of the Future
Average Riches, Likely Poverty
Fat Stocks, Fat People, and P/E
Contrarian Investing and the Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx
Accounting Practices, WorldCom's Problems
Options, Risk, and Volatility
Options and the Calls of the Wild
The Lure of Illegal Leverage
Short-Selling, Margin Buying, and Familial Finances
Are Insider Trading and Stock Manipulation so Bad?
Expected Value, Not Value Expected
What's Normal? Not Six Sigma
Diversifying Stock Portfolios
A Reminiscence and a Parable
Are Stocks Less Risky Than Bonds?
The St. Petersburg Paradox and Utility
Portfolios: Benefiting from the Hatfields and McCoys
Diversification and Politically Incorrect Funds
Beta
Is It Better?
Connectedness and Chaotic Price Movements
Insider Trading and Subterranean Information Processing
Trading Strategies, Whim, and Ant Behavior
Chaos and Unpredictability
Extreme Price Movements, Power Laws, and the Web
Economic Disparities and Media Disproportions
From Paradox to Complexity
The Paradoxical Efficient Market Hypothesis
The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Market
Pushing the Complexity Horizon
Game Theory and Supernatural Investor/Psychologists
Absurd Emails and the WorldCom Denouement.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-204) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
332.63/2042
Library of Congress
HG4515.15 .P38 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 216 p. ;
Number of pages
216

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24753466M
Internet Archive
mathematicianpla00paul
ISBN 10
0465054803
ISBN 13
9780465054800
LCCN
2002156215
OCLC/WorldCat
51983670

First Sentence

"It was early 2000, the market was booming, and my investment in various index funds were doing well but not generating much excitement."

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