Investors & Traders · Macro & trading
Jim Simons
A prize-winning geometer and codebreaker who hired scientists instead of Wall Street people and built Renaissance Technologies' Medallion Fund, the best-performing investment record ever known. What they did, what they didn't, and what it teaches.
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Prereqs: Statistics for quants; Build a simple backtester. Next: Ken Griffin. Sources: Gregory Zuckerman's *The Man Who Solved the Market* (2019), Simons' Numberphile and MIT interviews.Next: 1. Mathematician first