Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System.

THORP, Edward O. and Sheen T. Kassouf..

Item Number: 87465

New York: Random House, 1967.

First edition of this influential work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with charts and figures in the text. Signed by Edward O. Thorp. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

One of the most influential books of all time on Wall Street, whose methods launched “the quant” revolution of modern quantitative finance. Beat the Market offers step-by-step instructions, with explanatory, charts and tables, whereby anyone with $2000.00 brokerage account can conduct his own investment program. Details are given of actual investments made by the authors, one of whom more than doubled $100,000 in five years.