Description
This book mixes history on the ancient world with investment ideas for traders involved in financial markets today. It goes through ideas such as measuring risk, whether investors should try to outperform the market, Black Swans and ways of creating appropriate investment targets. It will appeal to professional traders and retail investors. Saeed Amen 1. Introduction 2. The Basis of Everything is Water: Understanding Risk in Markets 3. Harvesting Olives: Alpha and Beta Strategies 4. The Code of Hammurabi: Reducing Risk 5. Not What They Care About: Having Targets Other Than Returns 6. Predicting the Eclipse: Searching for a Black Swan and Windows of Doom 7. In the Stars: Lateral Thinking to Understand Markets 8. The Silk Road and its Secrets: Is There Really a Secret Sauce in Trading? 9. The Father of History: This Time is Sometimes Different in Markets 10. A Last Word to Conclude
