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  The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

  by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of... (more)
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  Fooled by Randomness

  The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

  by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  The word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world. This book is about luck: more precisely how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill – the world of business – Fooled by Randomness is an irreverent, iconoclastic, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining... (more)
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  The Bed of Procrustes

  Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

  by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan , this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects—modifying... (more)
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  Dynamic Hedging

  Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options

  by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Dynamic Hedging is the definitive source on derivatives risk. It provides a real-world methodology for managing portfolios containing any nonlinear security. It presents risks from the vantage point of the option market maker and arbitrage operator. The only book about derivatives risk written by an experienced trader with theoretical training, it remolds option theory to fit the practitioner's environment. As a... (more)