The Man Who Solved the Market

No learning provided what so ever- very bland, Not for someone wants to understand what Jim Simmons did to make money. No explanation provided.....

If you are after a technical audiobook outlining trading strategies then this book probably isn't for you. If however you want a story that follows the lives of a group of people dealing with the trials and tribulations of designing algorithms that can profitably trade, then this is a great listen.

Um not one to usually enjoy these subjects hence my review. It's just a great story from start to finish. If you are even a tiny bit scientific or analytical get into it.

The message i got was for any big decision is to accumulate as much quant data as possible , let your brain / machine process it, , try to reduce emotional bias but then go with your gut feel.

The secretive Renaissance Medallion fund and its founder Jim Simmons have been at the forefront of the quantitative investing revolution, but this story is as much about the people involved as it is about the investment strategy. The influence in the fields of maths, machine learning, education, politics, speech recognition and world events such as Brexit and the Trump 2016 by Renaissance current and former employees is staggering.

The narration is excellent, capturing a rich tone in telling a fascinating story.

Very good read, highly recommend to all investors. many lessons can be learned from this book's content.

The Man Who Solved The Market, the story of the man who lead Renaissance Technologies and brought Wall Street into the age of Computer aided trading by using Petabytes of data and complex mathematical equations aswell as lots of good old fashion brain power tells how Jim Simon's took a team of mathematicians and computer programmers with no knowledge of Financial markets to build a multi billion dollar hedge fund and revolutionize market trading.
Starting from simple means working meanial jobs before studying math and becoming a teacher and acclaimed mathematician finding an interest in the stock market it took him a while before discovering just how he could use math and computers in the 1960s to make great headway into trading before which he cracked code for US Intel during the early days of the cold war.
It wasn't till the 1980s & 90s that things really took off for Jim taking many of his early partners along for the ride.

This book is more about the people surrounding Jim Simons rather than Jim Simons himself. This is simply an observation rather than a complaint. An interesting book which if anything, steered me away from trading, now understanding just how difficult it is. If your a mathematician, this book would read like a love story. Narration was excellent. Full points to Zuckerman.

Amazing story of the most successful hedge fund in the world and the people behind it. Will’s narration was top class. He is going into my list of favourite narrators.