November 2012
Beginner
343 pages
8h 12m
English
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Market Sense and Nonsense: How the Markets Really Work (and How They Don't)
by Jack D. Schwager, Joel Greenblatt
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About the Author
Jack D. Schwager is a recognized industry expert in futures and hedge funds and the author of a number of widely acclaimed financial books. He is currently the co–portfolio manager for the ADM Investor Services Diversified Strategies Fund, a portfolio of futures and foreign exchange (FX) managed accounts. He is also an adviser to Marketopper, an India-based quantitative trading firm, supervising a major project that will adapt that firm’s trading technology to trade a global futures portfolio.
Previously, Mr. Schwager was a partner in the Fortune Group, a London-based hedge fund advisory firm acquired by the Close Brothers Group. His previous experience also includes 22 years as director of futures research for some of Wall Street’s leading firms and 10 years as the co-principal of a CTA.
Mr. Schwager has written extensively on the futures industry and great traders in all financial markets. He is perhaps best known for his best-selling series of interviews with the greatest hedge fund managers of the past two decades: Market Wizards (1989, new edition 2012), The New Market Wizards (1992), Stock Market Wizards (2001), and Hedge Fund Market Wizards (2012). Mr. Schwager’s first book, A Complete Guide to the Futures Markets (1984), is considered to be one of the classic reference works in the field. He later revised and expanded this original work into the three-volume series, Schwager on Futures, consisting of Fundamental Analysis (1995), Technical Analysis (1996), ...
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