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Speculating With Options: The Non-Hedger's Perspective

Almost everything in quantitative finance is built around one assumption: you hedge. You buy the option, you delta hedge, you eliminate risk, and the drift of the stock does not matter. Beautiful theory. But Chapter 59 of Wilmott’s book asks an uncomfortable question: what if you are not hedging?

Wall Street Bubbles From the Sixties to the Nineties

After covering tulip mania and the South Sea Bubble, you might think Wall Street eventually learned its lesson. It didn’t. Chapter 3 of A Random Walk Down Wall Street is Malkiel’s tour through modern speculation, from the 1960s to the 1990s. And the twist? This time the “smart money” is doing the speculating.

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