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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
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They posited that the market had as many as eight underlying “states”—such as “high variance,” when stocks experienced larger-than-average moves, and “good,” when shares generally rose.
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Their model foreshadowed revolutions in finance—including factor investing, the use of models based on unobservable states, and other forms of quantitative investing—that would sweep the investing world decades later.
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When desire and data are in collision, evidence sometimes loses out to emotion. Brian Keating,
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books on technical analysis—as well as Benjamin Graham and David Dodd’s landmark tome, Security Analysis, which laid the foundations for fundamental investing—Thorp