The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It Audiobook

" good read....detailed background on how/when/where the financial industry became driven by quantitative mathmatics. an interesting read....did turn my stomach to realize full-on how wallstreet is a gambling apparatus, with large amounts of investments managed with no regard to company fundamentals at all. "

" It was an interesting read but I didn't understand half of it. For the non-stock trading people of the world it went over my head in some parts but it was still a good read. "

" Same disappointment as in What Would Google Do - - - very intrusive profanity. "

" Not as good as Dark Pools, but still very interesting. I feel like I learned more about the personalities involved in the financial world, but not very much about the mechanics of the instruments and the math. "

" It's an interesting read if you are into the stock market and finance. It sheds some light on how the rich get richer. "

" Wildly fascinating and scary. A bit scattered and detailed with personal info but otherwise provides a solid "birds eye view" on the meltdown "

" An informative book on wall street and 2008 meltdown..... "

" Back to the algorithems; no less arrogance. "

" Fun read. Agree that image of "quant" is somewhat inflated in the book. Maybe it should be called The Magicians. "

" entertaining enough for fast and pleasant read on the history of hedge fund, while detailing ivy league backgrounds for those "whiz" does help to distract my attention from the storyline. Poker game math = finance modeling math? give me a break. "

" An interesting listen since I learned things about the way the pros speculate in stocks and securities, and how the current financial crisis was created. "

" Great book behind great mathematical geniuses that took over Wall Street. "

" Most accounts of the financial crisis are focused on the CEOs and the big picture. None that I've read have discussed the impact of technical trading and this one was really enlightening as to the role they played. It wasn't all about sub-prime mortgages as I'd always assumed. "

" Only good if you like to read about the boring lives of economists and their theories. I love math, but this was too difficult. I didn't even finish it. "

" A thorough examination of the evolution of unemotional, mathematically based investing. The book does a great job of going over the basics of capital markets and their evolution, but the characters, rich nerds, all a bit eccentric in their own ways, fall a bit flat. "

" i learned quite a bit from this book. "

" If you want to know how stocks are controlled by mathematicians and statisticians, read this. You need to posses some basic knowledge about how the market operates. A good read. "

" Nice, easy read on a few selected wallstreet quants from the begining of their carriers to the crisis of 2008. The book would have benefited from a deeper look on the strategies that they use, but I liked it anyway. "

" Took me a while - as a non financial person - but was both informative and scary! "

" Interesting insider views as to what was going on during the quant revolution on Wall Street. I wish that it was more in depth but an interesting overview, nonetheless "

" Good companion to The Big Short by Michael Lewis. Goes into detail about how a small group of investors created products that they convinced themselves could never fail, and how their implosion nearly took down the entire financial system. "

" Maybe I'm being overly simplistic but if you could assign a value to (or quantify) risk with any degree of certainty it really would be "risk" any more ... "

" Wildly fascinating and scary. A bit scattered and detailed with personal info but otherwise provides a solid "birds eye view" on the meltdown "

" Provides a good profile of the people it covers and also some of their work. I only wish it wasn't as long winded as it is. "

" First half I liked. Second half reads like a hodgepodge of newspaper clippings. No crescendo, or aha moments here. "

" Pretty cool read on how a bunch of mathematicians and CS geeks dominated (and potentially wrecked) international finance. "

" Great insight into what caused the 2007 Wall Street crash which in turn caused world crisis. "

" Good overview of mathematical formula trading via high speed computer. Read it and begin to understand what went wrong in with the economy in 2008. "