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Summary: Interesting. A must for understanding the great speculator
Review: Actually, this is the first of biography I reads about an investor. I am quite amased that I would enjoy it. I don't care what other people think of it or whether it is "authorized" or not. It tells a great story about the life of the great speculator from his early life, which shaped his investment and personal philosophy, onwards. It is a good book of introduction for understanding Soros investment theory -- "reflexism", because it kept track of facts, and put the rights and wrongs of his investment decisions in the frame of reality. It also recorded the comments from people worked with him. Thus, more objective or factual than "Soro on Soro", which is the next book I read about him. I also like what the author write about the collapse of British Pound in 1992. It gave details about how Soro formed his strategy and excuted it, with undoubtly a great success.
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Summary: good book, bad character
Review: After reading this book, I thing the author was pretty neutral. But the conclusion is just one:these kind of investors are the synthesis of what rotten there is in capitalism.
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Summary: An interesting story book, but not for trading
Review: Although quite out of date, this is the most interesting amongst all other bibliographies of Soros I ever read. This could be attributed to that the author could not get direct info from Soros or his associates at all. Without the burden of returning any favor, the author could quote whatever and whoever (some ex Soros partners) he liked, particularly criticisms, which were the most interesting parts of the book. Other parts, like how Soros broke the Bank of England, how he identified with his Hungarian Jewish identity, how he failed to become a philospher and turned into a trader, should be good enough to satisfy most readers' curiosity on the early part (on or before 1994) of Soro's life. For those traders who want to know the trading secrets, go somewhere else. p.s. As a trader, I still would like to quote something from the book for my fellows' reference:- 1. Page 60: What Soros understood better than most were the cause and effect relationships in the world's economies. If A happened, that B must follow, then C after that. 2. Page 83: The stock market is always wrong, so that if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly. 3. Page 85: In 1979, Soros renamed his fund...Quantum Fund, in tribute to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics. That principle asserts that it is impossible to predict the behavior of subatomic particples in quantum mechanics, an idea that meshed with Soros's conviction that markets were always in a state of uncertainty and flux that it was possible to make money by discounting the obvious, and betting on the unexpected. 4. Page 92: Soros always says that you shouldnt be in the market unless you are willing to take the pain. 5. Page 110: Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established. 6. Page 159: It is not whether you are right or wrong, but how much money you make when you are right and how much money you lose when you are wrong....If you have tremendous conviction on a trade you have to go for the jugular.It takes courage to be a pig. It takes courage to ride a profit with huge leverage.... When you right on something, you cant own enough.
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Summary: Wasted time...
Review: I don't like guys like Soros. For me,they're not more than a bunch of heartless son of a bi..es , even making more money than I'll make in a thousand lives! THe book is weak, because Soros' people were forbidden to talk to the author. But is clear that Soros pilantrophic intentions are a cruel fake, destined only to create more money at the expenses of the Eastern European people.
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Summary: No many secrets to be shared....
Review: The author seams try to hide the little information he was able to gather from outside the Soros's circle with a poetic writing about his rise to be a "Master of the Universe". But the fact remain that the book give only a very superficial idea about Soros and for sure do not address the big question about him: "Devil's Master of Globalization or Saint of a New Economy?"
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Summary: THE RICH HUNGARIAN MASTER OF EVIL !
Review: The writer, amongst other mistakes, made one very common in this kind of biography: at one moment, Soros is a poor Hungarian kid, going to London with his pockets totally empty; then, all of a sudden, he is accepted into a great British College; then, all of a sudden, he's employed in the investor's market in London, then he goes to America, according to the author, with only US$ 5,000. Then, all of a sudden again, he's a millionaire. No explanations, nothing. Well, about his career, the writer is fairly imparcial, but the impression the book gave me is that Soros is a humourless Hungarian, that never created any real jobs and only made people that were already rich more richer ! His intentions of changing economic life in Eastern Europe and RUssia are pathetic, and can only be seen as the quintenssential example of world globalization, as Soros tried to make new markets to earn more money! He is the best example of these guys with suits and ties that see everybody as a potential buyer for his products, not as human beings. Sad...
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Summary: Primer of Thought
Review: This book helps decipher the code of a great speculator. Financiers like Soros help keep the financial and economical mkt mesh in sync. Recent news on the dismantling of his Quantum (largest hedge fund in the world) and Quota funds has many on the street bewildered about his authority, but it should be understood that Soros publicly announced about two years ago that he no longer meddled in any of the funds' investments. This is a good book that explains the why's of a worldly speculator.
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Summary: THIS BOOK IS AWFUL
Review: This book was a complete waste of money. Dr Seuss could have written better finance non-fiction. Soros' biggest coup was his billion dollar + profit on the pound - he runs through the story in lightening speed with very little explanation or technicals of the mechanics. No insight. Very bad.
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