Fooled by Randomness vs Forecasting financial markets: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Fooled by Randomness Fooled by Randomness Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2001 ★★★★☆ 4.1 316 pages · ≈ 5 h 51 m · Moderate

"[Taleb is] Wall Street's principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther's ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church."--Malcolm Gladwell,…

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Cover of Forecasting financial markets Forecasting financial markets Tony Plummer · 1989 ★★★★☆ 3.8 259 pages · ≈ 4 h 48 m · Moderate

Forecasting Financial Markets provides a compelling insight into the psychology of trading behaviour and shows how "following the herd" can have disastrous results. It demonstrates how your ability to make money in the…

The verdict

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Fooled by RandomnessForecasting financial markets
Goodreads 4.1 (73501) —
Hardcover 3.9 (203) —
Google Books — 3.0 (1)
Apple Books 4.5 (170) —

Reception

Fooled by RandomnessForecasting financial markets
Ratings 73501 1
Editions 19 14
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read 120837 —
Reading it now 7702 —
Written reviews 3778 —
Wikipedia attention 3050 —
Pages 316 259

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