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# The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Kindle Edition

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## Customer Reviews

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    Will only recommend to trading professionals.
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2019*

I listened to this new Gregory Zuckerman book and it was as I thought it would be, relatively low quality prose and mixed narrative with some history on how RenTech made and didn't make money since 1977, perhaps more history and details than one would expect given NDAs. As anybody who is in the weeds knows, RenTech success at scale is driven by very good implementation of equities statistical arbitrage supplemented with bank assisted dramatic leverage and tax strategies (you won't get much details on it from the book) which came to RenTech the same way it came to all others (DE shaw, Thorp, PDT, and 100 of spin-offs) via MS original source. Given a cast of disgruntled former employees and RenTech PR appear to be the primary source for the book and author inability to dig dipper, the narrative is very uneven, but the book does appear to reflect the messy story of RenTech in the early days and greed driven gyrations in the latter days. I would not recommend paper version of the book as it is thin on valuable content, but audio version is good enough to listen while commuting if you want to get some reaffirmation of how the trading world really works. I am afraid separating the wheat from the chaff might be a bit complicated for somebody who is not financial trading professional so I would not recommend this book to them.

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    A riveting story of a mathematician who learned how to build a team
  

*by T***P on Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2019*

A completely engrossing book you will find hard to put down. Jim Simons used applied math to create the greatest money-making machine in Wall Street history. But this is really a rich human story of how Simons built a team of brilliant and fascinating personalities.SOME INTERESTING POINTS:• Simons is a true mathematician. He loves the elegance of math, the way theorems reveal truth, bringing order to chaos. When he was thirty-seven, he was awarded the top prize in geometry for his academic work.• In 1964 Simons left his teaching job at Harvard to break codes for the Institute for Defense Analyses. His experience there was KEY to his later success. First, his approach to investing would be like that for code-breaking: apply math to find hidden structure in chaotic data. Second, he was impressed with the way the Institute hired people. It didn’t look to fill specific skills; it looked for the smartest and most creative people it could find.• After code-breaking, Simons was hired to lead the struggling SUNY Stony Brook math department. In that job, he learned how to recruit and motivate superstar math professors. By the time he left academia to take on the challenge of investing, he had built a powerhouse department. And some of that talent would later join him and earn millions.• Simons didn’t allow researchers to work in silos. There was one combined trading system, and everyone could see the code. Simons thought it was vital for scientists to interact, debate, and share ideas.• Renaissance Technologies was not an overnight success. It took Simons ten years to put together the team and process that would go on to make so much money.• By 2002 the Medallion Fund was so successful that Simons, concerned that performance would fall if the fund grew too big, raised investor fees to 44% of profits.You don’t need to be a mathematician to read this book. It is simply a good tale. There are no formulas. And along with the story about Jim Simons, Zuckerman tells the history of the radical change in the investment world: “MBAs once scoffed at the thought of relying on a scientific and systematic approach to investing, confident they could hire coders if they were ever needed. Today, coders say the same thing about MBAs, if they think about them at all.”

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    Very Meh
  

*by P***M on Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2019*

Its a cute story. It's by no means a definitive work on finance (as the authors friend suggests), I dont even think its a definitive work on RenTech. It became very obvious early on that the author got nothing out of his subjects so he weaved what sparse details he got with an abundance of prose. And you've got to be kidding my with the corn cliff hangers at the end of every chapter - 'but it would be worse then anyone feared...' - give me a break

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