Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Barbell Trading Strategy (Overview, Options And Philosophy)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a world-known statistician, mathematician, philosopher, trader, and investor, and his primary interests evolve around randomness, uncertainty, and probabilities. Taleb came into the limelight after his book called Black Swan became a best seller, but in our opinion Fooled By Randomness from 2001 is his best and most interesting book, at least for those who have an interest in financial markets. We even ordered Fooled By Randomness on the first day it was offered! We have been great fans of Taleb’s writing before he became famous. In our opinion, Taleb shares knowledge very relevant to traders.
In this article, we look at Nassim Taleb’s writings, upbringing, career, his barbell strategy analogy (trading strategy), antifragility, and skin in the game. We end the article with quotes we wrote down from reading his books several times.
Nassim Taleb is famous for writing the Incerto, a book collection of all his writing (at least his writing up until now). The Incerto consists of the following books:
