[PDF] Forty Years A Speculator eBook

Author : Victor Niederhoffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 1998-03-19
Category : 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)

Author : Steve Fraser
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0061873365

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“Written with verve and passion. . . . offers a remarkable array of insights into the history of American capitalism.” — Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University “Big, boisterous, biting, and brilliant. . . . both page-turner and scholarly tour de force.” — Walter A. McDougall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Freedom Just Around the Corner “Remarkable. . . . Fraser tells the tale in high style.” — Sean Wilentz, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University “Should be widely read by scholars, students, and anyone interested in America’s ambivalent relationship with big business and big finance.” — David Nasaw, author of The Chief “Comprehensive, considered, and literate: a real accomplishment.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Fraser gives a thorough analysis of this scandal-ridden menagerie as reflected in books, movies, and the political arena.” — Booklist (starred review)

Author : Edward Chancellor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : 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.

Author : William C. Van Antwerp
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Stock Exchange from Within" by William C. Van Antwerp. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Louis Bachelier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : 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.

Author : Jesse L. Livermore
Publisher : How to Trade in Stocks
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0934380201

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Written by one of America's most colorful and flamboyant speculators, who made... and lost... four multi-million dollar fortunes. He was once blamed for causing the 1929 Crash, and for precipitating every market break from 1917 to 1940. This book is Livermore's legacy to the speculator for all time, in which he states his philosophy of trading and lays down the list of rules that are necessary to win at the speculative process. This valuable book by a Wall Street great is a collector's item.