The Wrong Answer Faster: The Inside Story of Making the Machine That Trades Trillions - Couverture rigide

Goodkin, Michael

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ISBN 10 : 1118133404 ISBN 13 : 9781118133408

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2012

Synopsis

The fascinating story behind the machines that trade trillions of dollars every day "A Bildungsroman , one jacket blurb calls this book-and sure, it's a traditional coming-of-age tale. But the story itself is anything but conventional. The pleasures of the book lie in the story of their bumpy path to success." Canadian Business In 1968, Michael Goodkin is about to graduate from Columbia University. While his classmates interview for jobs, he daydreams of seeing the world as a man of independent means. Noticing that there are no computers on Wall Street and drawing on his experiences as a failed teenage investor and successful gambler, he has an epiphany: since no one knows the right price for anything, the only way to beat the market is to make a computer that comes up with the wrong answer faster than the professionals. And thus begins a journey that takes this provincial Midwesterner from nearly broke to opulent Park Avenue. The Wrong Answer Faster is the story of unintended consequences: how a technique originally created to minimize market risk spiraled into a multi-trillion dollar game with unparalleled risks. Having founded and sold a firm that changed the world, Goodkin left New York to travel and play backgammon-only to return to found another groundbreaking firm, Numerix, a software company that substituted computational physics for econometrics to better manage derivative risk. The story of the computerization of Wall Street by the man at the helm Packed with keen insights, based almost entirely on poker, backgammon and game theory Goodkin's unique insight to the markets is that everyone has the wrong answers The solution is not to try to beat the market but to come up with the wrong answers faster The epic tale of the untold story how one man with a great idea decided not to play the market but to revolutionize the financial world for generations to come by creating the most ground breaking tool for market players since the ticker tape.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Goodkin , a successful gambler, failed investor, and mediocre student, was advised by his high school guidance counselor to become a plumber. Eight years later, in 1968 he combined his knack for gambling and lessons learned as a failed investor with the expertise of future Nobel laureate economists to found the company that introduced computerized trading to Wall Street. After seeing the world as a professional backgammon player, in 1996 he founded the software company that pioneered the application of computational physics to financial derivatives. A lecturer at forums including the University of Chicago and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Goodkin holds a JD from Northwestern University and an MBA from Columbia University. The author of Paper Gold , a bestselling novel of financial intrigue, he lives in Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1118133404
• ISBN 13: 9781118133408
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 326
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible