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Lies, Damn Lies and Kneejerks

John Andrews
6 min readMar 1, 2021

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I’m about halfway through The Man Who Solved The Market, a well-told story about Jim Simons, the founder of Renaissance Capital. Jim’s firm does ok in the market, returning an average of 66% annually in its Medallion Fund since 1988. That’s insane. Literally, insane. Heck, that is almost as good as Bitcoin since inception…As I have written in other posts, I’m fascinated by quant-modeled computer-driven trading that dominates the…

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John Andrews

Mary Catherine’s Dad, Mary Shannon’s Husband, Innovator, Shopper Marketer, Duke Fan, Hiker, Collective Bias Co-Founder, Walmart Elevenmoms maker, Slow Driver