Category: Book review
How we decide
March 2nd, 2009, No Comments
I recently came across a book – How we decide ? This is a book about decision making and how humans make decisions under various circumstances. Although this book is not on some best seller list or by a very well known author, I found the book good and learned quite a bit from it. [...]
The black swan – unpredictability, futility of forecasting etc
January 10th, 2008, 6 Comments
I have just finished this book. I wrote about this book earlier here. I have also read N N Taleb’s earlier book – fooled by randomness and liked it a lot. I will not be doing a detailed review of the book as that can be found on amazon and a lot of other website. [...]
Reading the Book – The Black swan
January 1st, 2008, 3 Comments
I am currently reading the book – The Black swan by N N Taleb. This is a great book on low probability, high impact events which are termed as black swans. I am still in the middle of this book. One key point which I came across is ‘confirmation bias’ on which the author has [...]
Book notes – Way of the Turtle – Final post
September 15th, 2007, No Comments
Final post on my notes with my comments in italics Earlier posts on the same book here,here, here and hereThe thirteenth chapter discusses how robust systems can be developed. Systems which work in varying market situations are robust. The author gives an example from biological systems. He refers to the concept of simplicity and diversity. [...]
Negative review – Way of the Turtle
September 13th, 2007, No Comments
I received the following comment from senthil. He pointed out to a negative review on the book (see link in the comment) – Way of the turtle on which I have been posting for the past few days. I found some review comments to be valid. However at the same time the reviewer has choosen [...]
Book notes – Way of the Turtle – IV
September 11th, 2007, 3 Comments
My notes on the previous chapters of the book here, here and here. The ninth chapter discusses about the building blocks of trading such as breakouts, moving averages, volatility channels, time based exits and simple look backs in detail. The next chapter follows with a detailed discussion on various systems such as the ATR channel [...]
