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Gregory Zuckerman

The Man Who Solved The Market

Summary

The story of Jim Simons, a former math professor who founded Renaissance Technologies and created the unparalleled Medallion Fund. The book details how Simons used advanced mathematics and algorithms to revolutionize quantitative trading, consistently outperforming the market and transforming the financial industry.

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Key Takeaways

  1. Renaissance was willing to bet on statistically, relevant signals, even if there wasn’t clear logic to it. This took a bit of and was also a good competitive move. You rivals would be willing to take a similar bet.
  2. We were truly modeling human behavior
  3. People react most predictably when stressed

What I got out of it

  1. Simons was a fascinating man and this deep dive on his life, the culture he set, and what he built at Renaissance was fun to learn about

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