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Title: SOROS: The Unauthorized Biography, the Life, Times and Trading Secrets of the World's Greatest Investor by Robert Slater ISBN: 0-7863-1247-5 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.09 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An interesting story book, but not for trading
Comment: Although quite out of date, this is the most interesting amongst all other bibliographies of Soros I ever read. This could be attributed to that the author could not get direct info from Soros or his associates at all. Without the burden of returning any favor, the author could quote whatever and whoever (some ex Soros partners) he liked, particularly criticisms, which were the most interesting parts of the book. Other parts, like how Soros broke the Bank of England, how he identified with his Hungarian Jewish identity, how he failed to become a philospher and turned into a trader, should be good enough to satisfy most readers' curiosity on the early part (on or before 1994) of Soro's life. For those traders who want to know the trading secrets, go somewhere else.
p.s. As a trader, I still would like to quote something from the book for my fellows' reference:-
1. Page 60: What Soros understood better than most were the cause and effect relationships in the world's economies. If A happened, that B must follow, then C after that.
2. Page 83: The stock market is always wrong, so that if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.
3. Page 85: In 1979, Soros renamed his fund...Quantum Fund, in tribute to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics. That principle asserts that it is impossible to predict the behavior of subatomic particples in quantum mechanics, an idea that meshed with Soros's conviction that markets were always in a state of uncertainty and flux that it was possible to make money by discounting the obvious, and betting on the unexpected.
4. Page 92: Soros always says that you shouldnt be in the market unless you are willing to take the pain.
5. Page 110: Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established.
6. Page 159: It is not whether you are right or wrong, but how much money you make when you are right and how much money you lose when you are wrong....If you have tremendous conviction on a trade you have to go for the jugular.It takes courage to be a pig. It takes courage to ride a profit with huge leverage.... When you right on something, you cant own enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting. A must for understanding the great speculator
Comment: Actually, this is the first of biography I reads about an investor. I am quite amased that I would enjoy it. I don't care what other people think of it or whether it is "authorized" or not. It tells a great story about the life of the great speculator from his early life, which shaped his investment and personal philosophy, onwards.
It is a good book of introduction for understanding Soros investment theory -- "reflexism", because it kept track of facts, and put the rights and wrongs of his investment decisions in the frame of reality. It also recorded the comments from people worked with him. Thus, more objective or factual than "Soro on Soro", which is the next book I read about him.
I also like what the author write about the collapse of British Pound in 1992. It gave details about how Soro formed his strategy and excuted it, with undoubtly a great success.
Rating: 1
Summary: THIS BOOK IS AWFUL
Comment: This book was a complete waste of money. Dr Seuss could have written better finance non-fiction.
Soros' biggest coup was his billion dollar + profit on the pound - he runs through the story in lightening speed with very little explanation or technicals of the mechanics. No insight. Very bad.
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Title: Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve by George Soros ISBN: 0471119776 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 04 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros, Paul A. Volcker ISBN: 0471445495 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 25 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire by Michael T. Kaufman ISBN: 0375405852 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: George Soros on Globalization by George Soros ISBN: 1586481258 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered by George Soros ISBN: 1891620274 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 02 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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