james simons

In today's podcast Patrick discusses the famous Warren Buffett quote “calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor “is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.”  from his 1991 letter to investors.
Topics covered are: what is the difference between trading and investing? Is one better than the other, and does it make sense to discourage short term trading?

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Statistics For The Trading Floor:  https://amzn.to/3eerLA0
Derivatives For The Trading Floor:  https://amzn.to/3cjsyPF
Corporate Finance:  https://amzn.to/3fn3rvC

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I have been a trader for over twenty years, and from the start of my hedge fund career working with Victor Niederhoffer I have taken a quantitative approach to researching and executing trading strategies.  A quant trader is a trader that builds statistical models to test trading strategies rather than relying on intuition and experience. Today we will look at the history of Quantitative Trading from 4000 years ago up until the present day. We will discuss the contributions of people like Ed Thorp, Victor Niederhoffer, Mike Adam, David Harding, Martin Lueck, David Shaw and James Simons.

Patrick's Books:
Statistics For The Trading Floor:  https://amzn.to/3eerLA0
Derivatives For The Trading Floor:  https://amzn.to/3cjsyPF
Corporate Finance:  https://amzn.to/3fn3rvC

Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinance

James Simons Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkbdZb0UPac&t=269s
Sell In May Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWa1vsaHSLs&t=54s

Books Mentioned In Video:
My Life As A Quant - Emanuel Derman https://amzn.to/3vGW0HT
Education of A Speculator - Victor Niederhoffer https://amzn.to/3b3Gtdh
A Man for All Markets - Edward Thorp https://amzn.to/3xOqlq0

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James Simons is a mathematician and cryptographer who realized that the complex math he used to break military codes could also explain patterns in the world of finance. Jim Simons has been described as "the world's smartest billionaire", amassing a fortune through the clever use of mathematics and computers. He has stepped down as the chairman of Renaissance Technologies, the most successful quant hedge fund in history this January. Simons has not overseen the day-to-day running of the $120 billion hedge fund for nearly a decade, but he had stayed on as chairman of the fund up until now.

Jim’s retirement marks the end of an era in finance. Simons’s career and the fund he launched proved that the finance textbooks which claim that markets are perfectly efficient were wrong.

Obviously, the trading strategies at Renaissance are secret, but let’s look at Simons career, and see what lessons we can learn.

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman: https://amzn.to/2Mkw2sf

Patrick's Books:
Statistics for The Trading Floor:  https://amzn.to/3eerLA0
Derivatives For The Trading Floor:  https://amzn.to/3cjsyPF
Corporate Finance:  https://amzn.to/3fn3rvC

Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinance

Visit our website: www.onfinance.org
Follow Patrick on Twitter Here: https://twitter.com/PatrickEBoyle