Scott Patterson's 2010 narrative of the quantitative traders whose mathematical models dominated Wall Street before failing catastrophically in 2008 — covering Jim Simons, Ken Griffin, Peter Muller, Cliff Asness, and Boaz Weinstein.
Creates the quant trading narrative for mainstream audiences — The Quants explains how mathematical models were trusted past the limits of their data, producing both extraordinary profits and catastrophic failures when models from different firms interacted in the same direction simultaneously.
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