The Fear Index
by:
Robert Harris (author)
Ships from Spain. Please allow 10-18 business days to arrive at UK address (10-21 worldwide) due to postal service checks and customs. Dr Max Hoffman is a legend who uses a revolutionary and highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade on the world's financial markets. Late one night, in...
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Ships from Spain. Please allow 10-18 business days to arrive at UK address (10-21 worldwide) due to postal service checks and customs. Dr Max Hoffman is a legend who uses a revolutionary and highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade on the world's financial markets. Late one night, in his house beside Lake Geneva, an intruder disturbs Hoffman and his wife while they are asleep. Over the next 48 hours, as the markets edge towards another great crash, Hoffman's world disintegrates. But who is trying to destroy him?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780091936976 (0091936977)
Publish date: September 29th 2011
Publisher: Hutchinson
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
The owner of a big hedgefund company, Alex Hoffman, physicist and inventor of an algorithm that could revolutionize trading, is attacked one evening in his home in Geneva. After getting checked at hospital which got him the recommendation to visit his neurologist with the headscans that were taken, ...
3.5 EstrellasRESEÑA COMPLETA EN ATRAPADO EN LA LECTURANo es un mal libro, de hecho es bastante bueno. "¿Porque le bajaste tanto las estrellas si es tan bueno?"...Tampoco es que lo super quemé al libro, le dí 3.5! El tema se reduce al siguiente: es un libro que trata mucho de economía, pero el autor ...
A terrifying first chapter! Develops into a fast paced financial thriller that catalogues events over a 24 hour period in Geneva. The two main characters are quite strong, but the others less so. A good holiday read"
Would call this a page turner if I hadn't read it on a Kindle. A cover to cover, don't put it down thriller. A lot of fun!
Update: 8/3/2012 This article related to an automatic trading algorithm run a-muck is pertinent to this book. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/trying-to-be-nimble-knight-capital-stumbles/ A larger question is whether this kind of trading benefits capitalism, in the sense it helps supply cap...
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