Alessandro Salvato

Perry Kaufman’s Trading Systems and Methods isn’t a book you read—it’s a 1,200-page survival manual for systematic traders. No hype, no shortcuts: just trend following, mean reversion, volatility, risk management, and testing. It’s heavy, it’s brutal, and it’s the closest thing we have to a trading encyclopedia.

Heaps are the hidden heroes of computer science. They power priority queues, task schedulers, and algorithms like Dijkstra, offering O(log n) efficiency for insertions and deletions. Forget constantly sorting arrays—one simple property keeps the maximum or minimum always on top. With a few basic operations, heaps turn messy problems into elegant, high-performance solutions.

Most traders dream of beating the market. Jim Simons didn’t just beat it—he solved it. That’s literally the title of Gregory Zuckerman’s...