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Bestselling author and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it?
Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. His track record bests those of legendary investors including Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, and George Soros. Yet Simons and his strategies are shrouded in mystery. Wall Street insiders have long craved a view into Simons's singular mind, as well as the definitive account of how his secretive hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies, came to dominate financial markets. Bestselling author and Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman delivers the goods.
After a legendary career as a mathematician at MIT and Harvard, and a stint breaking Soviet code for the U.S. government, Simons set out to conquer financial markets with a radical approach. He hired mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists, most of whom knew little about finance. Experts scoffed as Simons built Renaissance Technologies from a dreary Long Island strip mall. He amassed piles of data and developed algorithms to hunt for deeply hidden patterns in the numbers--patterns that reveal rules governing all markets.
Simons and his colleagues became some of the richest individuals in the world and their data-driven approach launched a quantitative revolution on Wall Street. They also anticipated dramatic shifts in society. Eventually, governments, sports teams, hospitals, and businesses in almost every industry embraced Simons's methods.
Simons and his team used their newfound wealth to upend society. Simons has become a major influence in scientific research, education, and politics, while senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for Donald Trump's victorious presidential campaign. The Renaissance team's models didn't prepare executives for the ensuing backlash.
The Man Who Solved the Market is the dramatic story of how Jim Simons and a group of unlikely mathematicians remade Wall Street and transformed the world.
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##还真就鸡肋呗，读之无味弃之可惜… WSJ出来的那帮人怎么写得都一样，全部一个套路。浅尝即止，没有任何特殊的思考角度，深度，对市场或者人物性格剖析。最多只能感叹一句Simons真的是天选之子，又获得傲人学术成就又能赚大钱，但是同时又很可怜两次白发人送黑发人。他们根本没有solved the market啊？？他们也不知道自己策略为什么work好吗。最后，据说这次危机里面文艺复兴已经亏了20%了… 所以说不能太早写传记
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评分##西蒙斯无疑是特别的，他自身并不是杰出的交易者，直到2018年都还会因为股市暴跌而感到焦虑万分，但是他开创了用机器交易的道路，并且组建了一支华尔街局外人的团队并且取得了成功。从他的故事里面或许很难学到多少交易的经验，但是他的经历无疑足够有趣，这本书值得一读。
评分##比外面看到的要艰辛许多。
评分##讲Jim Simons成立文艺复兴前的那一段很有意思，Mercer的政治影响也有意思。不要期待有太多量化干货，但看上去也还靠谱。超级多的小八卦和趣闻轶事。
评分##欧美经管人物传记类基本上都是流水账，哪怕是乔布斯的也一样。这本前半可以，干货新知以及作为经验教训先例的旁观者都有的看。后半有一些味同嚼蜡，合伙人中晚年享受退休生活，要么参与政治献金要么撕破脸。一家资产管理投资基金公司，招人从不认“大难临头最容易各自飞”的华尔街“人才”，面试只要写论文做演讲以及测试是否接受得了“刁难”。“我能教会他们所有金融知识，但无法直接让他们变聪明。”
评分##【第三十三本】要读一本英文原著真是费时间啊，前前后后读了三周时间。像文艺复兴基金，西蒙斯这样的高频量化基金的故事总是充满了神秘和向往，打败市场对传奇和量化高频交易的鼻祖，让很多人神往。但是真的读了这本书后才发现，整个公司的创始和发展历程充满了波折和变化，即使是西蒙斯这样的学术大拿也不是说轻松搞定市场的，何况最大的调整不仅仅是模型，而是如何管理手下这么多天才和科学家，让大家能在同一个平台为同一个目标一起努力，这远比西蒙斯研究数学问题要来的复杂的多。从Baum到Ax到Berlecamp到Mercier和Brown，从最初的趋势交易到指标交易，慢慢过渡到后来完全机器自动交易，即使取得巨大的成功，但是碰到了2008年金融危机时西蒙斯还是不能完全信任程序判断，要人为干预仓位，所以投资真是一项反人性的事
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