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Gregory Zuckerman: How Jim Simons Cracked The Secret Of The Market

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Jacob Wolinsky
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ValueWalk's Raul Panganiban interviews Gregory Zuckerman, the author of "The Frackers," "The Greatest Trade Ever," and his most recent book that's coming out soon, "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution." In this part, Gregory discusses the Peter Brown and Robert Mercer tandem, how Jim SImons managed and organized the tremendous brains working with him, Simons hiring the coding talent, putting money on trades without understanding why the phenomenon is happening, and why Simons found it difficult to accept some black box models in the early days.

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Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob covered small caps, worked recruiting members for a large hedge fund community and freelance financial journalism. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic Park NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal ID. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: Most of my portfolio is in I mostly purchase broad-based ETFs, mutual funds or individual bonds - I do this for performance reasons and to avoid any potential conflict of interest or occasional receipt of insider information. I will disclose if I have a stake in any company, but in general I have few stocks and I avoid any trading especially around topics I am covering.