Description: Chaotic dynamical systems have caught the imagination of the financial community as the most promising alternative to dead-end random walk models of market behavior. But until now, it has been virtually impossible for non-mathematicians to understand these theories, or how their results relate to the real world. In Footprints in the Markets, one of the world's leading hedge fund managers explains chaos and non-linearity in terms any sophisticated investor can understand -- and profit from. The world's most sophisticated investors have come to depend heavily on a new set of mathematical techniques involving dynamic, non-linear time series. Nonlinearity means, in essence, that small changes can, depending on circumstances, have disproportionate effects. Until recently, most knowledge of non-linear systems has been locked away with the "rocket scientists" of the investment field. Footprints of Chaos in the Markets" is the first book to examine the opportunities these new techniques present to investors, in language they can understand. For all sophisticated investors and money managers.

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