Nasem Taleb of 'Black Swan' Fame Will Be On The Colbert Report Tonight @ 11:30 PM

Quote from marketsurfer:

<b>Then there's the pay. This may be his top selling book year,

FWIW, I dropped by the public library of an affluent mid-sized NYC suburb over the weekend. The library has three copies of Black; all have been lent, and 13 'hold' requests are in queue. Quite a splash for a financial-markets (of sorts) book.
 
Not a very good book. I don't recommend it. Maybe buy the cliff notes version or read the condensed online version. No need to spend $24 when you can get a free synopses that covers all the main points without the filler.
 
Quote from atticus:

You've got these tiered vol-regimes... no vol under two sigmas and historic vols should we trade off a cliff.

This is the sort of intelligent-sounding but content-free remark that too often surfaces in discussions of volatility/risk/derivatatives. Have you actually done any work on "tiered vol-regimes"? Do you have any evidence you're able to predict "tiered vol-regime" switches? Otherwise, the remark is just trivial nonsense.
 
Quote from stock_trad3r:

Not a very good book. I don't recommend it. Maybe buy the cliff notes version or read the condensed online version. No need to spend $24 when you can get a free synopses that covers all the main points without the filler.

I would suggest posting under another alias, your current one is now a subject for ridicule.
 
I suspect many that dislike what Taleb has to say are the very ones that are scamming the public by gambling with their money .

You know who you are.
 
Quote from stock_trad3r:

Not a very good book. I don't recommend it. Maybe buy the cliff notes version or read the condensed online version. No need to spend $24 when you can get a free synopses that covers all the main points without the filler.

Haha...I think you've probably the read the condensed version of everything from "Investing for Retards" to "How to Think Like a Human for Retards Second Edition." :p

Almost forgot "Turning Your Trailer into a Townhouse."
 
Quote from Rodney King:

This is the sort of intelligent-sounding but content-free remark that too often surfaces in discussions of volatility/risk/derivatatives. Have you actually done any work on "tiered vol-regimes"? Do you have any evidence you're able to predict "tiered vol-regime" switches? Otherwise, the remark is just trivial nonsense.

I believe the word is derivatives. I don't recall any statements intimating I can predict anything, nor is it a requirement. Here's a prediction nonetheless: We've witnessed the lows on swaps, strips and smile; and have nowhere to go but up. To use a transparent reference, we won't see VIX under 11 for years to come.

To answer your previous; yes, I have.
 
Quote from stock777:

I suspect many that dislike what Taleb has to say are the very ones that are scamming the public by gambling with their money .

You know who you are.

Taleb concurs, which some of us find profoundly ironic considering how he performed with OPM at Paloma and Empirica.
 
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