The Man Who Solved the Market
- Title:The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
- Author(s): Gregory Zuckerman
- First Published: 2019
The Man Who Solved the Market is a portrait of a modern-day Midas who remade markets in his own image, but failed to anticipate how his success would impact his firm and his country. It’s also a story of what Simons’s revolution means for the rest of us.
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The Greatest Trade Ever
- Title:The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
- Author(s): Gregory Zuckerman
- First Published: 2009
The Greatest Trade Ever is a superbly written, fast-paced, behind-the-scenes narrative of how a contrarian foresaw an escalating financial crisis–that outwitted Chuck Prince, Stanley O’Neal, Richard Fuld, and Wall Street’s titans–to make financial history.
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- Title:The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
- Author(s): Gregory Zuckerman
- First Published: 2013
Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters – who risked their careers to prove the world wrong.
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One Up On Wall Street
- Title:One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market
- Author(s): Peter Lynch
- First Published: 1988
In easy-to-follow terminology, Lynch offers directions for sorting out the long shots from the no shots by spending just a few minutes with a company’s financial statements. His advice for producing “tenbaggers” can turn a stock portfolio into a star performer!
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The Intelligent Investor
- Title:The Intelligent Investor
- Author(s): Benjamin Graham
- First Published: 1949
The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham’s philosophy of “value investing” — which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies — has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949.
- Title:Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond
- Author(s): Bruce C.N. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin
- First Published: 2001
From the “guru to Wall Street’s gurus” comes the fundamental techniques of value investing and their applications Bruce Greenwald is one of the leading authorities on value investing.
The Signal and the Noise
- Title:The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t
- Author(s): Nate Silver
- First Published: 2012
Silver observes that the most accurate forecasters tend to have a superior command of probability, and they tend to be both humble and hardworking. They distinguish the predictable from the unpredictable, and they notice a thousand little details that lead them closer to the truth. Because of their appreciation of probability, they can distinguish the signal from the noise.
The Most Important Thing
- Title:The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
- Author(s): Howard Marks
- First Published: 2011
“This is that rarity, a useful book.”- Warren Buffett. Marks expounds on such concepts as “second-level thinking,” the price/value relationship, patient opportunism, and defensive investing.
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings margin of safety
- Title:Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings margin of safety
- Author(s): Philip A. Fisher, Kenneth L. Fisher
- First Published: 2011
Philip Fisher is considered one of the pioneers of modern investment theory and is one of the most influential investors of all time. His investment philosophies, which he introduced almost 40 ago, are not only studied and applied by modern financial experts and investors – including Warren Buffett – but are for many considered the gospel par excellence.
- Title: Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004
- Author(s): Maggie Mahar
- First Published: 2003
Philip Fisher is considered one of the pioneers of modern investment theory and is one of the most influential investors of all time. His investment philosophies, which he introduced almost 40 ago, are not only studied and applied by modern financial experts and investors – including Warren Buffett – but are for many considered the gospel par excellence.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- Title: Bull!:Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- Author(s): Edwin Lefèvre
- First Published: 1923
Philip Fisher is considered one of the pioneers of modern investment theory and is one of the most influential investors of all time. His investment philosophies, which he introduced almost 40 ago, are not only studied and applied by modern financial experts and investors – including Warren Buffett – but are for many considered the gospel par excellence.
- Title:Business Adventures
- Author(s): John Brooks
- First Published: 1969
Stories about Wall Street are infused with drama and adventure and reveal the machinations and volatile nature of the world of finance. John Brooks’s insightful reportage is so full of personality and critical detail that whether he is looking at the astounding market crash of 1962, the collapse of a well-known brokerage firm, or the bold attempt by American bankers to save the British pound, one gets the sense that history really does repeat itself.
- Title:Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers
- Author(s): John Kay, Mervyn A. King
- First Published: 2020
The limits of certainty demonstrate the power of human judgment over artificial intelligence. In most critical decisions there can be no forecasts or probability distributions on which we might sensibly rely. Instead of inventing numbers to fill the gaps in our knowledge, we should adopt business, political, and personal strategies that will be robust to alternative futures and resilient to unpredictable events.
Why Stock Markets Crash
- Title:Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
- Author(s): Didier Sornette
- First Published: 2002
The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic patterns, financial crises, and the failure of materials. In this book, Didier Sornette boldly applies his varied experience in these areas to propose a simple, powerful, and general theory of how, why, and when stock markets crash.
The New Financial Order
- Title:The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century
- Author(s): Robert J. Shiller
- First Published: 2003
Shiller describes six fundamental ideas for using modern information technology and advanced financial theory to temper basic risks that have been ignored by risk management institutions–risks to the value of our jobs and our homes, to the vitality of our communities, and to the very stability of national economies.
Irrational Exuberance
- Title:Irrational Exuberance
- Author(s): Robert J. Shiller
- First Published: 2000
The original and bestselling 2000 edition of Irrational Exuberance evoked Alan Greenspan’s infamous 1996 use of that phrase to explain the alternately soaring and declining stock market. It predicted the collapse of the tech stock bubble through an analysis of the structural, cultural, and psychological factors behind levels of price growth not reflected in any other sector of the economy.
- Title:Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
- Author(s): Liaquat Ahamed
- First Published: 2009
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person’s or government’s control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades.
- Title:The Volatility Smile
- Author(s): Emanuel Derman, Michael B. Miller
- First Published: 2009
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person’s or government’s control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades.
No Bull: My Life in and Out of Markets
- Title:No Bull: My Life in and Out of Markets
- Author(s): Michael Steinhardt
- First Published: 2001
No Bull is the long-awaited autobiography of Wall Street legend Michael Steinhardt. Steinhardt is considered one of the most successful investors in Wall Street history. Between 1967 and 1995 he amassed a fortune for himself and his investors. With an annual return of over 30%, he was well above the market average and surpassed almost every one of his colleagues. But until recently he was not prepared to reveal much about himself and his philosophy.
- Title:The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
- Author(s): Sebastian Mallaby
- First Published: 2016
Mallaby argues that the conventional wisdom is off base: Greenspan wasn’t a naïve ideologue who believed greater regulation was unnecessary. He had pressed for greater regulation of some key areas of finance over the years, and had gotten nowhere. To argue that he didn’t know the risks in irrational markets is to miss the point. He knew more than almost anyone; the question is why he didn’t act, and whether anyone else could or would have.
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
- Title:What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
- Author(s): Jim Paul, Brendan Moynihan
- First Published: 1994
Jim Paul’s meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of