书籍介绍
这不是一本教你炒股的实操手册，而是一位金融巨子在收山之际，对自己半生实践的"复盘式"自白。全书以访谈问答串联，核心是其"反身性"理论——市场永远不完美，认知与现实相互塑造，而决定成败的恰是那99%之外、量化模型失效的1%。令人争议的恰恰是它的"不彻底":前半部分谈投资哲学、趋势与拐点、如何"扣动扳机"，被不少读者奉为经典;后半段转向开放社会、政治与慈善，则被批"说不清楚"。它适合两类人:已读过《金融炼金术》、想追根溯源者,以及愿意直面一位犹太裔逃难者如何将童年创伤铸成投资方法论的人。它给不了你可复制的公式,却给了你一种"把错误当骄傲"的思维方式。
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核心看点
- 索罗斯自述生平与投资哲学，系统阐述反身性理论
- 揭示市场非理性本质，认知与环境存在双向反馈机制
- 结合量子基金实战案例，解析风险管理与投机策略
读者共识
- 前半部分投资心得极具启发性，后半部分哲学论述较晦涩
- 反身性理论深刻揭示了市场参与者的认知偏差与互动
- 展现了索罗斯作为理想主义者与交易员的双重复杂人格
精彩摘录
- "In the last twenty years, there has been a lot of progress made in measuring risk for investment portfolios. Why don't you employ these scientific quantitative methods? Because we don't believe in them. They're generally constructed on the assumption of efficient market theory. That theory is in con"
- "On a personal level, I am a very critical person who looks for defects in myself as well as in others. But, being so critical, I am also quite forgiving. I couldn't recognize my mistakes if I couldn't forgive myself. To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a so"
- "According to my theory of initially self-reinforcing, but eventually self-defeating trends, the trend is your friend most of the way; trend followers only get hurt at inflection points, where the trend changes. Most of the time I am a trend follower, but all the time I am aware that I am a member of"
- "More generally, running an investment portfolio is not work in the ordinary sense of the word. It is something else. It is risk taking. The amount of work you need to do is inversely related to your success. That is to say, if you are working at what is normally considered work, if you are a salesma"
- "We both started with the postulate that the markets are always wrong. Actually the big difference between Jim Rogers and me was that Jim thought that the prevailing view was always wrong, whereas I thought that we may be wrong also. Wall Street wisdom was, by definition, conventional wisdom, and sin"
- "Then there was the Real Estate Investment Trust industry (REITs), which I put on the map. We got it right coming and going. I issued a study in which I described it as an initially self-reinforcing but eventually self-defeating process that would end badly with most REITs going bust. But the end was"
- "This was, I think, the Wednesday before Black Monday. That's when I should have been in the office and getting the hell out of the market, but I missed it. I could see trouble coming, but I thought it would come first in Japan, where a financial bubble was developing, so I was short Japan and long t"
- "I also use it to describe specific instances where the two-way feedback mechanism disrupts both the course of events and the participants' perceptions in a way that gives rise to a disequilibrium."
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这本书是对索罗斯的采访汇集而成，是索罗斯系统论述投资、慈善和政治生活的第一手资料。索罗斯早年匈牙利的生活及出逃，我认为很大程度上影响了其日后的反身性理论，反身性理论的精髓在于，人们认知会成为客观环境的一部分，而客观环境又反馈到人们的认知过程当中，因此人们获取的信息以及认知过程都是不完善的，正是这种认知影响环境本身、从而改变已有认知、进而采取行动改变环境，成为反身性的核心。早年的逃亡经历，核心要义是活下来，要求对周边环境极其敏感，某种程度上就是要在认知改变环境之前采取行动，在反身性的拐点来临之前或来临之时，采取行动。
soros对话录
可惜例子不够多
更让我为之触动的是soros在市场中实践哲学之外，在现实中持续验证并尝试建立开放社会的观念。
失败的哲学家，从中看到了自己，也给了很多鼓励。很多人说索罗斯的交流有问题，写出书来大家看的也很费劲。其实人的语言不就是这样吗，制约了复杂的理念的传递。一个真诚的有追求的人，只能尝试用更复杂的表达方式去还原。
这本 跟 The tragedy of European union 里面的思路比alchemy of finance 清晰多了，而且简单易懂明白。看来索罗斯也慢慢学会怎么做一个合格的作者。书里面讲述的reflexivity concept真的很推荐大家看。 里面对the uncertainty principle 和 positive feedback/negative loop 解释十分清晰是书里面的重点。
有市场经验回头再看这本书就会想起很多自己的经历、方法论、价值观。索老的访谈也反映了他自己的经历和思考，真的是一本hidden gem.这也是一本通向真正理解索罗斯的书。
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