Edward O. Thorp, Sheen T. Kassouf
Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System by Edward O. Thorp, Sheen T. Kassouf (1967) is a book on our Trading & futures shelf. The book that started quant hedging. It suits readers interested in trading & futures, and it is legally free from UC Irvine Department of Economics. Licence: Free PDF from the co-author's university (no signup).
Download free from UC Irvine Department of EconomicsThe book that started quant hedging. Thorp, the blackjack card-counter, and Kassouf show how to price stock warrants and convertibles and hedge them against the common stock, a market-neutral method they used to earn about 25% a year. It foreshadowed Black-Scholes options pricing.
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