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Thanks for the book recommendations! As a SW dev who recently (a year and a half ago) moved into finance (from telecom), I’ve been trying to educate myself as m
by henrik_w 11y ago
Thanks for the book recommendations! As a SW dev who recently (a year and a half ago) moved into finance (from telecom), I’ve been trying to educate myself as much as possible in the domain - I find it quite fascinating. Below is a list of books I’ve read and MOOCs I’ve taken, but it would be great to hear what your top recommendations are for books to read (I’ve noticed that your high-quality comments here on HN). Thanks.
Books:
Liar’s Poker,
The Quants,
Flash Boys,
Against the Gods,
The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals
MOOC courses:
Financial Markets (Coursera),
Computational Investing (Coursera),
Mathematical Methods for Quantitative,
Option Pricing (EdEx - got too difficult at the end)
EDIT: Thanks for the pics, really great! Lots of good CS books there too! Sidenode: I just finished "Ghost in the Wires" a week ago - great read.
My bookshelf is shown here: http://henrikwarne.com/2015/04/16/lessons-learned-in-software-development/ http://henrikwarne.com/2015/04/16/lessons-learned-in-softwar...
- Cshelton 11y agoAh, I moved from finance into software, although I write financial software. Great books, some embellish the truth a bit though, take it as entertainment value. They all provide great insight though! I've been re-reading the big short by Michael Lewis for the movie coming out this month. I recommend that for insight into the 07-08 collapse. It's a really good book
- osullivj 11y agoFrank Partnoy's FIASCO, Das' Traders, Guns & Money. Also Victor Niederhoffer's Education of a Speculator.