{"id":2174,"date":"2026-05-16T20:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2026-05-16T20:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:29:44","slug":"the-man-who-solved-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/the-man-who-solved-the-market\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Solved The Market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/0241309735\/\">book<\/a> about the &#8220;start&#8221; of quant trading by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Simons\">Jim Simons<\/a>. Funny he was a strong smoker and quick sharp and active till the end, great Mathematician and was code breaker! I didnt know anything about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?about=true\">Renaissance<\/a>. In part, it reminds me the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Man-All-Markets-Beating-Street\/dp\/1786071975\/\">book<\/a> from Edward O. Thorp. It was weird that with so much tech and algorithms developed, in key moments, he didnt trust them. Reminds me to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb\">Nassim Taleb<\/a> and the dark swans. Still he was never crashed and always made money. I always feel uneasy with this subject. Is it moral? The thing that surprise the most was the connections with Donald Trump by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Mercer\">members<\/a> of his company and Brexit election. But he supports and finance Democrats. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting book about the &#8220;start&#8221; of quant trading by Jim Simons. Funny he was a strong smoker and quick sharp and active till the end, great Mathematician and was code breaker! I didnt know anything about Renaissance. In part, it reminds me the book from Edward O. Thorp. It was weird that with so much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/the-man-who-solved-the-market\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Man Who Solved The Market&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}