birdwatcher: (Default)
birdwatcher ([personal profile] birdwatcher) wrote2006-09-02 06:23 pm

Наша с вами история

In 1977, when commodity traders had begun to apply the options formula that Merton and Scholes had invented, Edward and William O'Connor, two brothers who traded soybeans, had founded a new firm to invest in options. O'Connor & Associates became one of the savviest of the new derivatives firms. In 1986, the firm hired David Solo, a terse, precise-spoken electrical engineer from MIT and a brilliant quantitative trader.
Roger Lowenstein, "When Genius Failed" (2000)