"Beware of geeks bearing formulas."
--Warren Buffett
In March of 2006, the world's richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. They were accustomed to ris[...]
In "Dark Pools", "Wall Street Journal" reporter Scott Patterson tells the story of the group of whizzkids who applied their computer programming genius to the invention of 'robot versions of Warren Buffett'. As they did so, they created a radically new trading system in which machines trade anonymou[...]
A tale of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots - many so self-directed that humans can't predict what they'll do next. It is the story of the intelligent computer programmers behind the rise of these 'bots'. It is a timely warning that as artificial intelligence gradually takes ov[...]
This is a management-level book for companies and organizations that are (orwill be) doing business in more than one country. This distinction applies toincreasing numbers of corporations because remaining competitive dependsupon supply chains, customers, and outsourced operations that routinely map[...]