Lessons From the Best Trader of All Time: Jim Simons

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Jim Simons is one of the most successful hedge fund managers in history. He is a trained mathematician and quantitative trader and the founder of Renaissance Technologies. His hedge fund specializes in diversified system trading using individual quantitative models derived from statistical analyses of historical price data. His primary models are on pattern recognition. Jim Simons was a mathematics professor from 1968 to 1978, and chair of the mathematics department at Stony Brook University. He started in the hedge fund industry in 1982. His net worth is currently approximately $23.5 billion. His Renaissance ... (full story)