Forty Years a Speculator

Forty Years a Speculator
Title Forty Years a Speculator PDF eBook
Author Fred Carach
Publisher FRED CARACH
Pages 152
Release 2007-03
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781430316602

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THIS IS ABOUT MY LIFE AS A STOCK MARKET SPECULATOR. AND MY GRADUAL TRANSFORMATION FROM A CONSERVATIVE BLUE-CHIP INVESTOR INTO A STEELY EYED, RIVERBOAT GAMBLER WITH NERVES OF STEEL. WHO FOUND WHAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR IN THE STRANGE AND WONDROUS WORLD OF MICRO-CAP INVESTING. ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE YOU INTO MY WORLD. A WORLD WHERE YOU CAN MAKE A FORTUNE ON A CHUMP-CHANGE INVESTMENT.

Forty Years a Speculator

Forty Years a Speculator
Title Forty Years a Speculator PDF eBook
Author Fred Carach
Publisher Dog Ear Publishing
Pages 176
Release 2012-02
Genre
ISBN 1457505649

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Devil Take the Hindmost

Devil Take the Hindmost
Title Devil Take the Hindmost PDF eBook
Author Edward Chancellor
Publisher Penguin
Pages 401
Release 2000-06-01
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0452281806

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A lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to present day. Is your investment in that new Internet stock a sign of stock market savvy or an act of peculiarly American speculative folly? How has the psychology of investing changed—and not changed—over the last five hundred years? In Devil Take the Hindmost, Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world: from the tulip scandal of 1630s Holland, to “stockjobbing” in London's Exchange Alley, to the infamous South Sea Bubble of 1720, which prompted Sir Isaac Newton to comment, “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” Here are brokers underwriting risks that included highway robbery and the “assurance of female chastity”; credit notes and lottery tickets circulating as money; wise and unwise investors from Alexander Pope and Benjamin Disraeli to Ivan Boesky and Hillary Rodham Clinton. From the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties, from the nineteenth century railway mania to the crash of 1929, from junk bonds and the Japanese bubble economy to the day-traders of the Information Era, Devil Take the Hindmost tells a fascinating story of human dreams and folly through the ages.

The Education of a Speculator

The Education of a Speculator
Title The Education of a Speculator PDF eBook
Author Victor Niederhoffer
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 484
Release 1998-03-19
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780471249481

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Victor Niederhoffer, eine exzentrische, außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeit und ein äußerst erfolgreicher Börsenhändler, erzählt seine wirklich faszinierende Geschichte: Sein Leben, seine Ausbildung, seine Erfolge und Fehler, Gewinne und Verluste. In einem Geschäft, in dem es von Scharlatanen wimmelt, erfrischen derart realistische Worte. Mit vielen Hintergrundinformationen am Rande, beispielsweise über die Hillary-Clinton-Affäre. (06/98)

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Title (Hearings) ... PDF eBook
Author United States. 61st Congress, 1909-1911. House. [from old catalog]
Publisher
Pages 816
Release 1910
Genre
ISBN

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Forty Years Ago

Forty Years Ago
Title Forty Years Ago PDF eBook
Author George Woodruff
Publisher BoD – Books on Demand
Pages 118
Release 2023-07-20
Genre Fiction
ISBN 3368831313

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Louis Bachelier's Theory of Speculation

Louis Bachelier's Theory of Speculation
Title Louis Bachelier's Theory of Speculation PDF eBook
Author Louis Bachelier
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 205
Release 2011-12-12
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1400829305

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March 29, 1900, is considered by many to be the day mathematical finance was born. On that day a French doctoral student, Louis Bachelier, successfully defended his thesis Théorie de la Spéculation at the Sorbonne. The jury, while noting that the topic was "far away from those usually considered by our candidates," appreciated its high degree of originality. This book provides a new translation, with commentary and background, of Bachelier's seminal work. Bachelier's thesis is a remarkable document on two counts. In mathematical terms Bachelier's achievement was to introduce many of the concepts of what is now known as stochastic analysis. His purpose, however, was to give a theory for the valuation of financial options. He came up with a formula that is both correct on its own terms and surprisingly close to the Nobel Prize-winning solution to the option pricing problem by Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton in 1973, the first decisive advance since 1900. Aside from providing an accurate and accessible translation, this book traces the twin-track intellectual history of stochastic analysis and financial economics, starting with Bachelier in 1900 and ending in the 1980s when the theory of option pricing was substantially complete. The story is a curious one. The economic side of Bachelier's work was ignored until its rediscovery by financial economists more than fifty years later. The results were spectacular: within twenty-five years the whole theory was worked out, and a multibillion-dollar global industry of option trading had emerged.