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Mathematics for Economics and Finance

by Michael Harrison and Patrick Waldron  · 19 Apr 2011  · 153pp  · 12,501 words

various synthetic portfolios made up of the underlying security and the riskfree security. The simple rule for figuring out how to exploit arbitrage opportunities is ‘buy low, sell high’. With interest rates and currencies, for example, this may be a non-trivial calculation. Exercise: If the interest rate for one-year deposits or loans

Mathematical Finance: Core Theory, Problems and Statistical Algorithms

by Nikolai Dokuchaev  · 24 Apr 2007

risk process. This strategy is important since it is optimal for certain optimal investment problems (including maximization of E ln X(T)). Example 5.12 (‘buy low, sell high’ rule). Let T=+∞. Consider a strategy when where C>0 is a constant, τ=min{t>0: S(t)=K}. Here K> S(0) is

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

by Merlin Sheldrake  · 11 May 2020

dynamics of supply and demand. Most surprising was the way that the fungus coordinated its trading behavior across the network. Kiers identified a strategy of “buy low, sell high.” The fungus actively transported phosphorus—using its dynamic microtubule “motors”—from areas of abundance, where it fetched a low price when exchanged with a plant

Carbon: The Book of Life

by Paul Hawken  · 17 Mar 2025  · 250pp  · 63,703 words

connected to mycelial hyphae, operating independently but not autonomously. According to Kiers, fungal transactions appear similar to marketplace transactions. The fungi seemed to have a “buy low, sell high” strategy where they would stock up on phosphorus when it was abundant in one area and exchange it to plants where it was scarce in

Long Game: How Long-Term Thinker Shorthb

by Dorie Clark  · 14 Oct 2021  · 201pp  · 60,431 words

as a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch, also followed her curiosity: why did people make such irrational decisions about their money? We all know the mantra: buy low, sell high. And yet smart people would consistently do the opposite, selling in a panic or becoming greedy when the market was obviously frothy. “I began spending

The Pragmatic Programmer

by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas  · 19 Oct 1999  · 509pp  · 92,141 words

suddenly, nor should you invest all of it conservatively and miss out on possible opportunities. Don't put all your technical eggs in one basket. Buy low, sell high. Learning an emerging technology before it becomes popular can be just as hard as finding an undervalued stock, but the payoff can be just as

The Hacker's Diet

by John Walker

Wall Street tale: a tyro asks an old-timer, “How do you make money in the market.” The wise man answers, “Nothing could be simpler: buy low, sell high.” The beginner asks, “How can I learn to do that?” The sage responds, “Ahhhh…that takes a lifetime.” Simple doesn't mean easy. There is

The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet

by Justin Peters  · 11 Feb 2013  · 397pp  · 102,910 words

were hoarding the world’s cultural heritage to benefit the rich at the expense of the poor—or, indeed, that anything was venal about their buy-low, sell-high business model. Reed Elsevier profited by publishing academic journals and selling them for a fee. Its digital activities were neither particularly nefarious nor unprecedented. The

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 7 Sep 2022  · 205pp  · 61,903 words

, he hired investment bank Salomon Smith Barney to find an acquisition target. This was not any sort of new media strategy. It was plain old buy-low-sell-high horse trading, amplified by the massive bubble of digital finance. As Ted Turner later explained it in characteristic hyperbole, “the Time Warner–AOL merger should

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace  · 23 Jul 2009  · 325pp  · 110,330 words

things that a company purporting to sell products must master. Not knowing where else to turn, I remember buying a copy of Dick Levin’s Buy Low, Sell High, Collect Early, and Pay Late: The Manager’s Guide to Financial Survival, a popular business title at the time, and devouring it in one sitting

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

by Daniel C. Dennett  · 15 Jan 1995  · 846pp  · 232,630 words

Venice: A New History

by Thomas F. Madden  · 24 Oct 2012  · 466pp  · 146,982 words

Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson

by Corey Seymour, Johnny Depp and Jann S. Wenner  · 31 Oct 2007  · 462pp  · 151,805 words

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe  · 6 Dec 2016  · 254pp  · 76,064 words

Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, From Wall Street to Dubai

by Ben Mezrich  · 11 Aug 2008  · 263pp  · 91,898 words

Madoff: The Final Word

by Richard Behar  · 9 Jul 2024

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 7 May 2024  · 470pp  · 158,007 words

Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

by Jerry Kaplan  · 3 Aug 2015  · 237pp  · 64,411 words

The Fix: How Bankers Lied, Cheated and Colluded to Rig the World's Most Important Number (Bloomberg)

by Liam Vaughan and Gavin Finch  · 22 Nov 2016

Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

by Peter Baker  · 21 Oct 2013

Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

by David Enrich  · 18 Feb 2020  · 399pp  · 114,787 words

The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess

by Turney Duff  · 3 Jun 2013  · 262pp  · 93,987 words

The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich

by Daniel Ammann  · 12 Oct 2009  · 479pp  · 102,876 words

For Profit: A History of Corporations

by William Magnuson  · 8 Nov 2022  · 356pp  · 116,083 words

The Wealth Dragon Way: The Why, the When and the How to Become Infinitely Wealthy

by John Lee  · 13 Apr 2015  · 202pp  · 72,857 words

Understanding Asset Allocation: An Intuitive Approach to Maximizing Your Portfolio

by Victor A. Canto  · 2 Jan 2005  · 337pp  · 89,075 words

Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--And How to Make Them Work for You

by Sangeet Paul Choudary, Marshall W. van Alstyne and Geoffrey G. Parker  · 27 Mar 2016  · 421pp  · 110,406 words

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

by Zeke Faux  · 11 Sep 2023  · 385pp  · 106,848 words

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

by Gregory Zuckerman  · 5 Nov 2019  · 407pp  · 104,622 words

California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--And What It Means for America's Power Grid

by Katherine Blunt  · 29 Aug 2022  · 470pp  · 107,074 words

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian  · 7 Oct 2024  · 336pp  · 104,899 words

A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History

by Diana B. Henriques  · 18 Sep 2017  · 526pp  · 144,019 words

Mastering Private Equity

by Zeisberger, Claudia,Prahl, Michael,White, Bowen, Michael Prahl and Bowen White  · 15 Jun 2017

Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

by Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez and Monique Tilford  · 31 Aug 1992  · 426pp  · 115,150 words

The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization

by Richard Baldwin  · 14 Nov 2016  · 606pp  · 87,358 words

The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson  · 7 Mar 2006  · 364pp  · 101,286 words

Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments

by Michael Batnick  · 21 May 2018  · 198pp  · 53,264 words

The Bitcoin Guidebook: How to Obtain, Invest, and Spend the World's First Decentralized Cryptocurrency

by Ian Demartino  · 2 Feb 2016  · 296pp  · 86,610 words

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

by William Poundstone  · 18 Sep 2006  · 389pp  · 109,207 words

Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required

by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung  · 8 Jul 2019  · 389pp  · 81,596 words

How I Became a Quant: Insights From 25 of Wall Street's Elite

by Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter  · 30 Jun 2007

Why Aren't They Shouting?: A Banker’s Tale of Change, Computers and Perpetual Crisis

by Kevin Rodgers  · 13 Jul 2016  · 318pp  · 99,524 words

The Gone Fishin' Portfolio: Get Wise, Get Wealthy...and Get on With Your Life

by Alexander Green  · 15 Sep 2008  · 244pp  · 58,247 words

The Quants

by Scott Patterson  · 2 Feb 2010  · 374pp  · 114,600 words

Rigged Money: Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game

by Lee Munson  · 6 Dec 2011  · 236pp  · 77,735 words

Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets

by David J. Leinweber  · 31 Dec 2008  · 402pp  · 110,972 words

The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit

by Marina Krakovsky  · 14 Sep 2015  · 270pp  · 79,180 words

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 1 Mar 2016  · 366pp  · 94,209 words

Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days

by Chris Guillebeau  · 18 Sep 2017  · 206pp  · 60,587 words

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales From a Strange Time

by Hunter S. Thompson  · 6 Nov 2003  · 893pp  · 282,706 words

The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth

by Nicolas Niarchos  · 20 Jan 2026  · 654pp  · 170,150 words

Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets

by Michael W. Covel  · 19 Mar 2007  · 467pp  · 154,960 words

Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street

by Peter L. Bernstein  · 19 Jun 2005  · 425pp  · 122,223 words

Running Money

by Andy Kessler  · 4 Jun 2007  · 323pp  · 92,135 words

Capital Ideas Evolving

by Peter L. Bernstein  · 3 May 2007

Your Money: The Missing Manual

by J.D. Roth  · 18 Mar 2010  · 519pp  · 118,095 words

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar  · 1 Jan 1990  · 713pp  · 203,688 words

A Man for All Markets

by Edward O. Thorp  · 15 Nov 2016  · 505pp  · 142,118 words

The Website Investor: The Guide to Buying an Online Website Business for Passive Income

by Jeff Hunt  · 17 Nov 2014  · 169pp  · 43,906 words

The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume

by Josh Kaufman  · 2 Feb 2011  · 624pp  · 127,987 words

How to Predict the Unpredictable

by William Poundstone  · 267pp  · 71,941 words

I Will Teach You To Be Rich

by Sethi, Ramit  · 22 Mar 2009  · 357pp  · 91,331 words

A Wealth of Common Sense: Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan

by Ben Carlson  · 14 May 2015  · 232pp  · 70,835 words

The First Tycoon

by T.J. Stiles  · 14 Aug 2009

Smarter Investing

by Tim Hale  · 2 Sep 2014  · 332pp  · 81,289 words

Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives

by Satyajit Das  · 15 Nov 2006  · 349pp  · 134,041 words

Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in a Global Market

by Steven Drobny  · 31 Mar 2006  · 385pp  · 128,358 words

Stocks for the Long Run, 4th Edition: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long Term Investment Strategies

by Jeremy J. Siegel  · 18 Dec 2007

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

by Taylor Larimore, Michael Leboeuf and Mel Lindauer  · 1 Jan 2006  · 335pp  · 94,657 words

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

by Deirdre N. McCloskey  · 15 Nov 2011  · 1,205pp  · 308,891 words

Learn Algorithmic Trading

by Sebastien Donadio  · 7 Nov 2019

Stocks for the Long Run 5/E: the Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies

by Jeremy Siegel  · 7 Jan 2014  · 517pp  · 139,477 words

Alpha Trader

by Brent Donnelly  · 11 May 2021

The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio

by William J. Bernstein  · 26 Apr 2002  · 407pp  · 114,478 words

The New Sell and Sell Short: How to Take Profits, Cut Losses, and Benefit From Price Declines

by Alexander Elder  · 1 Jan 2008  · 394pp  · 85,252 words

The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management

by Alexander Elder  · 28 Sep 2014  · 464pp  · 117,495 words

The Intelligent Investor (Collins Business Essentials)

by Benjamin Graham and Jason Zweig  · 1 Jan 1949  · 670pp  · 194,502 words

Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined

by Lasse Heje Pedersen  · 12 Apr 2015  · 504pp  · 139,137 words

Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards

by Antti Ilmanen  · 4 Apr 2011  · 1,088pp  · 228,743 words

Principles of Corporate Finance

by Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers and Franklin Allen  · 15 Feb 2014

Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice

by Pierre Vernimmen, Pascal Quiry, Maurizio Dallocchio, Yann le Fur and Antonio Salvi  · 16 Oct 2017  · 1,544pp  · 391,691 words