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A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market by John Allen Paulos; John Allen is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market about?

The book touches many aspects of the stock trading and the author show it by referring to his own experience of loosing money in WCOM during the 2000 crash. He shows the deceptiveness of the media, chatrooms, technical analysis, fundamental analysis and the common fallacies of the masses. But the author being a mathematician tries to find any mathematical correlation with stock market reality. The author agrees that there is more to stock market then the random walk theory and efficient market hypothesis. Though each of these theories have their partial truths and moments when they can be applied, exact timing of which hypothesis will work in the future is impossible to be certain of. It is a fine book but i found that he as underestimated the technical analysis. Indicators such as the volume of stock traded can show the starting of a pattern of upward movement or downward in technical analysis. It has been nicely explained in Secrets for profitting in bull and bear markets by Stan weinstein. This book that i mention has gotten less attention as i would like but it shows how volume and 30 day average can really show the tread for atleast a couple of months. I also found that there

Who reads A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market?

Author

John Allen Paulos; John Allen

Publisher

New York : Basic Books

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781567318289

Category

business

Subjects

Science, Economics, Finance

Rating

3.44 / 5 (445 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14