Resources

Lectures 7

• Ed Thorp interview, The Investor's Podcast (TIP 128) verified

  Edward O. Thorp

  Kelly in practice. Link checked 6 Nov 2026 ("128 TIP: Edward Thorp – A Man for All Markets", The Investor's Podcast channel); content not reviewed for M03.

  M03

• Jim Simons: A rare interview with the mathematician who cracked Wall Street (TED 2015) verified

  Jim Simons

  How a systematic research organisation thinks about signals and data.

  M04M13

• The 7 Reasons Most Machine Learning Funds Fail (slides) verified

  Marcos López de Prado

  Backtest overfitting, leakage and labelling failures in one talk.

  M04M13

• Flirting with Models S3E12: Positional Option Trading verified

  Euan Sinclair (guest), Corey Hoffstein (host)

  Sinclair on the variance premium and sizing. Episode released 27 Jul 2020 on the Flirting with Models podcast (Newfound Research); find it by title on any podcast platform. The book it discusses is Sinclair, Positional Option Trading (Wiley, 2020).

  M09

• How the Economic Machine Works (video, 30 min) verified

  Ray Dalio

  The credit-cycle framework behind M11 · 11.13. Link checked 6 Nov 2026 (Principles by Ray Dalio channel).

  M11

• Thinking, Fast and Slow (Talks at Google) verified

  Daniel Kahneman

  System 1 and System 2, loss aversion and the planning fallacy, from the source.

  M14

• Trading Psychology 2.0 (talk) verified

  Brett Steenbarger

  Process-focused trading psychology. Link checked 6 Nov 2026 ("Trading Psychology 2.0 with Dr. Brett Steenbarger").

  M14