一个大牛写的关于hedge的经典书, 做trader必看. 看看他的介绍:
As a trader, Taleb has said he took a skeptical and anti-mathematical approach to risk and uncertainty and had a severe distrust of models and statisticians and a contempt for finance academics, especially economists. He has held the following positions: Managing director and proprietary trader at
UBS. Worldwide chief proprietary arbitrage derivatives
trader for
currencies,
commodities and non-dollar fixed income at
CS-First Boston. Chief currency derivatives trader for
Banque Indosuez.
Managing Director and worldwide head of financial
option arbitrage at
CIBC-Wood Gundy. Derivatives arbitrage trader at
Bankers Trust, proprietary trader at
BNP Paribas, as well as independent option market maker on the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Founder of
Empirica LLC after which Taleb retired from trading and became a full-time author and scholar in 2004.
[24] Taleb is currently Principal/Senior Scientific Adviser at
Universa Investments, the Santa Monica, California, fund owned and managed by former Empirica partner
Mark Spitznagel.
In an article in
The Times,
Bryan Appleyard described Taleb as "now the hottest thinker in the world".
[44] The
Nobel Laureate
Daniel Kahneman proposed the inclusion of Taleb's name among the world's top intellectuals, citing "Taleb has changed the way many people think about uncertainty, particularly in the financial markets. His book,
The Black Swan, is an original and audacious analysis of the ways in which humans try to make sense of unexpected events."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb
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