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"It never dawned on Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard - not when growing up together in the Southwest, not during their hippie grad-school days, not even when applying their collective genius in physics and mathematics to winning at roulette in Las Vegas - that someday they would end up as players, beating the Masters of the Universe from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs at their own game."--BOOK JACKET.
"The Predictors is Thomas Bass's engrossing and often hilarious chronicle of how these two scientists - along with their team of T-shirted and ponytailed Ph.D.'s, and with the help of some very savvy financial gurus - attempted to decode and model the complex patterns underlying the apparently random movements of commodities, currency, and equities markets.
On the dizzying ride from the Prediction Company's dusty office above a Santa Fe fortune-teller to the glittering towers of Wall Street, Farmer and Packard find themselves in the company of virtually every cowboy trader and rogue millionaire who ever tackled the market. Bass spins a tale of genius and greed, power brokers and rebels, all the while providing a brisk education in chaos, complexity, and the world financial markets."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street
November 1, 2000, Holt Paperbacks
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0805057579 9780805057577
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"All hell has broken loose in the Chicago exchanges."
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Excerpted in The New Yorker and hailed by the business press, The Predictors is destined to become a classic of its generation--an antic, subversive odyssey into a universe defined by the mystical convergence of physics and finance.
How could a couple of rumpled physicists in sandals and Eat-the-Rich T-shirts, piling computers into an adobe house in Santa Fe, hope to take on the masters of the universe from Morgan Stanley? Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard may never have read The Wall Street Journal, but they happen to be among the founders of the new sciences of chaos and complexity. Who better to try to find order in the apparently unreasoned chaos of the global financial markets? Thomas A. Bass takes us inside their start-up company, following it from its inception as a motley collection of longhaired Ph.D.s to its passage into the centers of financial power, where "the predictors" find investors and finally go live with real money. The Predictors is a dizzying, often hilarious tale of genius and greed.
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