Trading Thalesians : what the ancient world can teach us about trading today / by Saeed Amen, Co-founder and Managing Director of the Thalesians.
What can the ancient world teach us about modern money markets? How can we use examples from the ancient world, philosophers and writers to better understand the markets? Just as historians such as Herodotus living in ancient Greece examined the past, can traders look to their past to learn somethin...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Paul Bilokon
- Prologue
- Introduction
- The basis of everything is water : understanding risk in markets
- Harvesting olives : alpha and beta strategies
- The code of Hammurabi : reducing risk
- Not what they care about : having targets other than returns
- Predicting the eclipse : searching for a black swan and windows of doom
- In the stars : lateral thinking to understand markets
- The Silk Road and its secrets : is there really a secret sauce in trading?
- The father of history : this time is sometimes different in markets
- Herodotus, the father of history
- Markets.