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The Misbehavior of Markets

A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

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The Misbehavior of Markets

Written by: Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L Hudson
Narrated by: Jason Olazabal
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A groundbreaking mathematician presents a new model for understanding financial markets.

Benoit B. Mandelbrot, one of the century's most influential mathematicians, is world-famous for making mathematical sense of a fact everybody knows but that geometers from Euclid on down had never assimilated: Clouds are not round, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not smooth. To these classic lines we can now add another example: Markets are not the safe bet your broker may claim.

In his first book for a general audience, Mandelbrot, with co-author Richard L. Hudson, shows how the dominant way of thinking about the behavior of markets-a set of mathematical assumptions a century old and still learned by every MBA and financier in the world-simply does not work. As he did for the physical world in his classic The Fractal Geometry of Nature , Mandelbrot here uses fractal geometry to propose a new, more accurate way of describing market behavior. The complex gyrations of IBM's stock price and the dollar-euro exchange rate can now be reduced to straightforward formulae that yield a far better model of how risky they are.

With his fractal tools, Mandelbrot has gotten to the bottom of how financial markets really work, and in doing so, he describes the volatile, dangerous (and strangely beautiful) properties that financial experts have never before accounted for. The result is no less than the foundation for a new science of finance. Corporate & Public Finance Economics Mathematics Business Capitalism Banking Stock Classics Financial Markets
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Amazing book. I was introduced into understanding many concepts i never knew existed. Its indeed a book every aspiring trader should have

Good book

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My career is in the investment world and as long as I can remember little has seemed correctly aligned or calcuable. Getting a better understanding of the challenges helps put a very chaotic world in better perspective. So much to learn yet.

Intensely thought provoking and enlightening.

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I will listen/read this a few times I'm sure. Some very interesting ideas. It gives insight into the academic side of finance and how that influenced the current market. He discusses a number of popular concepts in trading. Good to add to a broad understanding of the markets and includes some broadly applicable concepts for other areas of life. It's a very good book but my 5 stars are reserved for incredible books.

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