Mathematics of Finance: Modeling and Hedging Book

This book and the events it describes do not answer the question of whether normal people can be taught the magic of trading and become wildly rich.

Instead, it tells the tale of a small group of exceptional individuals selected from a larger pool of motivated volunteers by an expert in the field. They were given a mundane but previously successful trading method to execute (following trends, with fixed rules for when to get in and out) and it did mostly continue to work. Later, some went on to greater successes.

It is frustrating that the author seems so awestruck and uncritical of his subject. The events and personalities described are interesting at times, but that deteriorates into minutia.

It was worth a look, but I stopped half way. I was a little curious about certain details that might be in the second half, but not enough to bear more than a few more minutes flicking through.