Why am I passionate about this?
I believe that knowledge is power. Understanding how something works leads to practical applications. In markets, I believe you should develop your own ideas on how to invest rather than being told. After all, how can you profit if you’re doing what everyone else is doing? Markets are efficient enough to give an opportunity to everyone but advantage to no one, unless you do something different than the crowd. My list is designed to give you information to develop investment strategies based on chaos theory, complexity, and fractals. It is not designed to tell you how to invest.
Edgar's book list on books to become a market chaologist
Why did Edgar love this book?
This best-seller kicked off the public interest in chaos theory.
I was schooled in traditional Capital Market Theory. However, as a practitioner, I realized that those ideas had serious flaws. Gleick’s book opened my mind to new ideas. This history of the development of chaos theory has an enthusiasm for new ideas that is infectious.
Gleick was also able to introduce these ideas in a way that was easily understandable to the layman. Understanding the ideas is the only way to use them in practical applications. I highly recommend this book to all levels of readers.
2 authors picked Chaos as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Uncover one of the most exciting frontiers of modern physics in this fascinating, insightful and accessible overview of Chaos theory.
'An exceedingly readable introduction to a new intellectual world' Observer
From the turbulence of the weather to the complicated rythmns of the human heart, 'chaos' is at the centre of our day to day lives. Cutting across several scientific disciplines, James Gleick explores and elucidates the science of the unpredicatable with an immensely readable narrative style and flair.
'An awe-inspiring book. Reading Chaos gave me the sensation that someone had just found the light-switch' Douglas Adams