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Trading Thalesians

What the Ancient World Can Teach Us About Trading Today

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Saeed Amen

    1. Thalesians, London, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Saeed Amen
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Basis of Everything Is Water: Understanding Risk in Markets

    • Saeed Amen
    Pages 8-38

  4. Harvesting Olives: Alpha and Beta Strategies

    • Saeed Amen
    Pages 39-60

  5. The Code of Hammurabi: Reducing Risk

    • Saeed Amen
    Pages 61-82

  6. Not What They Care About: Having Targets Other than Returns

    • Saeed Amen
    Pages 83-108

  7. Predicting the Eclipse: Searching for a Black Swan and Windows of Doom

    • Saeed Amen
    Pages 109-129

  8. In the Stars: Lateral Thinking to Understand Markets

    • Saeed Amen
    Pages 130-145

  9. The Silk Road and Its Secrets: Is There Really a “Secret Sauce” in Trading?

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    Pages 146-159

  10. The Father of History: This Time Is Sometimes Different in Markets

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    Pages 160-178

  11. A Last Word to Conclude

    • Saeed Amen
    Pages 179-181

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 182-193
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Thalesians, London, UK

    Saeed Amen

About the author

Saeed Amen is Managing Director and co-founder of The Thalesians, a think tank of dedicated professionals with an interest in quantitative finance, economics, mathematics, physics and computer science. In this role Saeed publishes FX and gold quant strategy, drawing upon nearly a decade of experience creating and running FX trading models. Independently, he is also a systematic FX prop trader. Prior to this Saeed was an Executive Director and FX Quant Strategist at Nomura, London, where he built up a number of systematic FX spot and volatility trading models both for clients and the trading desk which were run profitably with prop capital. He also prepared a large body of quant FX strategy notes in areas such as high frequency, macro, technical analysis, positioning, liquidity, hedging and options. Saeed began his career at Lehman Brothers, London, as an Analyst and Quant Strategist in Foreign Exchange following completion of a Master's degree (MSci) in Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College, University of London. Saeed is quoted regularly by the FT, WSJ and ZeroHedge.

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