October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
429 pages
11h 40m
English
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Index
Accuracy ratio, 221
Adams, Brandon, 395
Aggregation process, 297
Algorithmic Trading and DMA (Johnson), 396
Algren, Nelson, 395
All the Devils Are Here (McLean and Nocera), 399
Allen, Franklin, 396
Anderson, Chris, 399
Anthropology of Economy, The (Gudeman), 394
Arbitrage, 164–167, 171, 258, 260, 262, 330
Ariely, Dan, 398
Ars Conjectandi (Bernoulli), 325, 327
Augar, Philip, 395
Autocorrelation, 260
Bacharach, Michael, 398
Backward-looking risk management, 228–230
Bad Bet (O'Brien), 395
Bank for International Settlements, 352
Bank One, 291
Barter, Exchange and Value (Humphrey and Hugh-Jones), 394
Basel capital rules, 225, 228, 352–353, 354, 356–357, 358–359
Bayes, Thomas, 327
Bayesians/Bayesian concepts. See also Probability
betting/probability and, 10, 18, 328
in history/law, 58
risk defining capital, 350
technology startups and, 367–368
Beat the Dealer (Thorp), 67
Beat the Market (Thorp and Kassouf), 67
Behavioral Game Theory (Camerer), 398
Bennet, Rick, 395
Bernoulli, Jakob, 325–327, 336, 343
Berns, Gregory, 398
Bernstein, Peter, 395
Betting:
probability and, 10, 15–18, 328
public, 337
Beyond Counting (Grosjean), 395
Beyond Individual Choice (Bacharach), 398
Big Short, The (Lewis), 399
Black, Alethea, 396
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