The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market - Hardcover

Soros, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671634550 ISBN 13: 9780671634551

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1987

Synopsis

Reveals a revolutionary approach to investing and how financial markets work and tests this theory by providing a day-to-day journal of portfolio management

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Review

“...contains a detailed description of his trading methods and repays careful reading.” ( Investors Chronicle, 1st April 2005)

“...these updated classics are packed  with investment wisdom...” (What Investment, November 2003)

From the Back Cover

Critical Praise . . .

"The Alchemy joins Reminiscences of a Stock Operator as a timeless instructional guide of the marketplace." – Paul Tudor Jones from the Foreword

"An extraordinary . . . inside look into the decision–making process of the most successful money manager of our time. Fantastic."– The Wall Street Journal

"A breathtakingly brilliant book. Soros is one of the core of masters . . . who can actually begin to digest the astonishing complexity . . . of the game of finance in recent years."– Esquire

"A seminal investment book . . . it should be read, underlined, and thought about page–by–page, concept–by–idea. . . . He′s the best pure investor ever . . . probably the finest analyst of the world in our time." – Barton M. Biggs, Morgan Stanley

George Soros is unquestionably the most powerful and profitable investor in the world today. Dubbed by BusinessWeek as "The Man Who Moves Markets," Soros has made a billion dollars going up against the British pound. Soros is not merely a man of finance, but a thinker to reckon with as well. Now, in The Alchemy of Finance, this extraordinary man reveals the investment strategies that have made him "a superstar among money managers" (The New York Times).

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0671634550
• ISBN 13: 9780671634551
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English