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Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
0471369462
ISBN-13
9780471369462
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66977781
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nerds on Wall Street : Math, Machines and Wired Markets
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Finance / General, E-Commerce / Online Trading, General, Enterprise Applications / General
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Computers, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.3 in
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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-008848
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
332.60285
Table Of Content
Foreword by Ted Aronson xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv Part One 1 Wired Markets Chapter 1: An Illustrated History of Wired Markets 5 Chapter 2: Greatest Hits of Computation in Finance 31 Financial Technology Stars; Hits and Misses; The Crackpot as Billionaire; Future Technological Stars; Mining the Deep Web; Language Technology; EDGAR; Greatest Hits, and the Mother of All Greatest Misses Chapter 3: Algorithm Wars 65 Early Algos; Algos for Alpha; Algos for the Buy Side; From Order Pad to Algos; A Scientifi c Approach; Job Insecurity for Traders; So Many Markets, So Little Time; Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns; Models Aren''t Markets; Robots, RoboTraders, and Traders; Markets in 2015, Focus on Risk; Playing Well with Robots and Algorithms; Seeing the Big Picture in Markets; Agents for News and Pre-News; Algorithms at the Edge Part Two 89 Alpha as Life Chapter 4: Where Does Alpha Come From? 95 Alpha from Innovation; Alpha, the ARPANET, and the Internet; Summary Chapter 5: A Gentle Introduction to Computerized Investing 109 Indexing 101; Active Management; What Do Quantitative Managers Do?; Active Management on Steroids; Finding Information and Inefficiencies to Produce Alpha; All the Stocks, All the Time; Jumping the Trading Cost Hurdle; Putting the Pieces Together; Does This Really Work? Chapter 6: Stupid Data Miner Tricks 135 "Your Mama Is a Data Miner"; Strip Mining the S&P 500; Enough Regression Tricks; Is There Any Hope for Data Miners?; Summary (and Sermonette); Counting the Kiddies Part Three 149 Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Amplification Chapter 7: A Little AI Goes a Long Way on Wall Street 159 Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence on Wall Street; AI People Can Use; Where''s the AI?; Real Charting; Virtual Charting; Descriptive Programming; Information Flows and Displays in MarketMind and QuantEx; Integration with Real-Time Feeds and Historical Databases; Composing Syntactically Bulletproof Programs; From Indications to Orders to Executions; Vapor No More; Future Plans for AI in Finance (in 1995) Chapter 8: Perils and Promise of Evolutionary Computation on Wall Street 181 The AI Spring?; Genetic Algorithms; Evolving Financial Models; An Early Lesson; Arbitrage and Predictive Strategies; Maximizing Predictability; Chromosomes for Forecasting Models; FitnessFunctions for Forecasting Models; Use of the GA for Coping with a Combinatoric Explosion of Models; Genetically Optimized Forecasting Models in Hindsight; Genetic Algorithm Warning Label Chapter 9: The Text Frontier: AI, IA, and the New Research 203 Ten Pounds of News in a Five-Pound Bag; Pre-News and Disintermediation; More Pre-News on the Internet Chapter 10: Collective Intelligence, Social Media, and Web Market Monitors 227 Investing with Crowds; Never Met a Data Vendor I Didn''t Like; Santa Claus Is Coming to Town; Counting Messages; Whisper Numbers--Ruined by Success; Monitoring Web Activity; More Web, More Warnings Chapter 11: Three Hundred Years of Stock Market Manipulations: From the Coffeehouse to the World Wide Web 253 The Power of Manipulation; A Classic Market Manipulation; The Very Model of a Modern Market Manipulator; Bluffing; How Communication Changes Market Manipulation; Anatomy of a Successful Manipulation; The Internet Era; Cyber-Manipulations; It''s Not Just Micro-Caps; Where Are We Headed? Part Four 273 Nerds Gone Wild: Wired Markets in Distress Chapter 12: Shooting the Moon: Stupid Financial Technology Tricks 279 To Protect and to Serve; Stupid Engineering Tricks; Stupid Financial Engineering Tricks; Take Them Out and Shoot Them; Tech Hall of Shame; Quants Who Saw It Coming Chapter 13: Structural Ideas for the Economic Rescue: Fractional Homes and New Banks 305 Chapter 14: Nerds Gone Green: Nerds on Wall Street, off Wall Street 327 Accelerating Innovation; From the Vault; Billions of Dollars and Millions of Tons of Carbon; Epilogue; Web Site Index 343 About the Web Site 353 NerdsonWallStreet.com
Synopsis
An intriguing look at how technology is changing financial markets, from an innovator on the frontlines of this revolution Nerds on Wall Street tells the tale of the ongoing technological transformation of the world's financial markets. The impact of technology on investing is profound, and author David Leinweber provides readers with an overview of where we were just a few short years ago, and where we are going. Being a successful investor today and tomorrow--individual or institutional--involves more than stock picking, asset allocation, or market timing: it involves technology. And Leinweber helps readers go beyond the numbers to see exactly how this technology has become more responsible for managing modern markets. In essence, the financial game has changed and will continue to change due entirely to technology. The new "players," human or otherwise, offer investors opportunities and dangers. With this intriguing and entertaining book, Leinweber shows where technology on Wall Street has been, what it has meant, and how it will impact the markets of tomorrow., An intriguing look at how technology is changing financial markets, from an innovator on the frontlines of this revolution Nerds on Wall Street tells the tale of the ongoing technological transformation of the world's financial markets., An intriguing look at how technology is changing financial markets, from an innovator on the frontlines of this revolution Nerds on Wall Street tells the tale of the ongoing technological transformation of the world's financial markets. The impact of technology on investing is profound, and author David Leinweber provides readers with an overview of where we were just a few short years ago, and where we are going. Being a successful investor today and tomorrow--individual or institutional--involves more than stock picking, asset allocation, or market timing: it involves technology. And Leinweber helps readers go beyond the numbers to see exactly how this technology has become more responsible for managing modern markets. In essence, the financial game has changed and will continue to change due entirely to technology. The new players, human or otherwise, offer investors opportunities and dangers. With this intriguing and entertaining book, Leinweber shows where technology on Wall Street has been, what it has meant, and how it will impact the markets of tomorrow.
LC Classification Number
HG4515.95.L43 2009
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