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- Nerds on Wall Street
The Impact of Technology on Wall Street and Investing
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Forward by Ted Aronson
Part 1 – Wired Markets
Chapter 01 – An Illustrated History [...]
- Praise for “Nerds On Wall Street”
“Leinweber isn’t half as crazy as people said! He foresaw the profound change that wired technology would bring to markets (robots trading millions of shares in six milliseconds). Now he nails the Stupid Financial Engineering Tricks that dumped the markets, and offers his patented, sound insights on how the nerds will help bring us back.”
Jane [...]
- More Praise for “Nerds on Wall Street”
“New technologies are exploited first by “alpha geeks,” folks with the skills to push the envelope. This is as true on Wall Street as it was on the web. Leinweber was one of those alpha geeks, but is also the first to chronicle the innovation process from early adopter to mainstream acceptance.”
Tim O’Reilly
Founder & CEO, [...]
- Part 4 – Nerds Gone Wild – Wired Markets in Distress
Financial Nerds Gone Wild – Global Markets in Distress
The original plan for this book stopped after the three parts that you’ve just read. These parts are about how markets became machines, and about using more machines to pick stocks and trade them electronically, bringing in an assortment of nifty ideas from finance and computer science [...]