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(More customer reviews)Author's credibility suffers when you read that
Long Island is in Connecticut (p. 40), and is a city (on p. 48, it is listed with Milwaukee, Des Moines and Santa Fe)
University of Southern California is part of UCLA (p. 55), and employs "microstructure professors" - as does "the Wharton School of Finance" (p. 97)
"Volatility [is] the measure of the average change in stock prices" (p. 15)
"A linear combination of two stocks, such as buying Yahoo! and shorting eBay, will reduce the volatility by 50%" (p. 85)
"Conventional wisdom suggests markets are efficient, random walks" (p. 1)
"Investment strategies that are confirmed with understanding these intraday correlations are known as "statistical arbitrage" (or high-frequency) traders" (p. ?)
Etc., etc. (I won't quote a non-sequitur, but these do come up regularly, and impress me a lot more). How am I suppposed to trust the author's competence and judgement where I can't check his assertions? I cannot, so the book has limited (although definitely non-zero) value.
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Conventional wisdom suggests that markets are efficient, random walks and that stock prices rise and fall with the fundamentals of the company. How then have black-box traders prospered and how do they exploit market inefficiencies? Are their strategies on their last legs or will they adapt to the new landscape amidst the global financial crisis?
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