Trading Books: 'The Black Swan' by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Trading Books: The Black Swan – The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2007

Topics Covered:

The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skeptic
Yevgenia’s Black Swan
The Speculator and the Prostitute
One Thousand And One Days, Or How Not To Be A Sucker
Confirmation Shmonfirmation!
The Narrative Fallacy
Living in the Antechamber of Hope
Giacomo Casanova’s Unfailing Luck: The Problem Of Silent Evidence
The Ludic Fallacy, or The Uncertainty of the Nerd
The Scandal of Prediction
How to Look for Bird Poop
Epistemocracy, a Dream Appelles the Painter, or What Do You Do if You Cannot Predict?
From Mediocristan to Extremistan, and Back
The Bell Curve, That Great Intellectual Fraud
The Aesthetics of Randomness
Locke’s Madmen, or Bell Curves in the Wrong Places
The Uncertainty of the Phony
Half and Half, or How to Get Even with the Black Swan

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Trading Book Review of ‘The Black Swan – The Impact of the Highly Improbable’ by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This trading book completely changed the way I thought about probabilities in trading and everyday life. A hugely insightful look at the impact and true likelihood of improbable events. These are the events that either make or break traders, so this book is an absolute must-read for anyone who wants to survive and profit in the financial markets over the long term. If you have other trading books that you can recommend then please leave me a comment below and I will make a review about it!