Survival of the Fittest for Investors

Survival of the Fittest for Investors is a 2011 finance book by Dick Stoken about how the theories of Darwinism and survival of the fittest can be applied to an investor's portfolio. The full title of the book is Survival of the Fittest for Investors: Using Darwin's Laws of Evolution to Build a Winning Portfolio.[1]

Survival of the Fittest for Investors: Using Darwin’s Laws of Evolution to Build a Winning Portfolio
AuthorDick Stoken
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Published2011 (McGraw Hill Professional)
ISBN9780071782296

Reception

Reception of Survival of the Fittest for Investors was generally positive.[1][2][3][4]

The book was named as one of the "Year's Top Investment Books" and contender for "Best Investment Book of the Year" by the 2013 Stock Traders Almanac. It stated that Survival of the Fittest for Investors "Shows how, with heightened insight and a powerful algorithm, you can survive and thrive in volatile markets by following the simple principles of evolution."[2][3]

Leo Melamed, chairman of CME Group, stated that “Dick Stoken’s Survival of the Fittest for Investors is a masterful and unique dissection of what makes the market tick. It represents an indispensable and brand-new approach for the serious investor. A must on every investor’s reading list.”[3]

Seeking Alpha stated that "Survival of the Fittest for Investors is one of the “fittest,” best written investment books . . . The investor who is searching for a way to boost returns would do well to add it to his must-read list."[4]

gollark: I think the "random facts about taxes and whatever" life skills should be learned independently and the vague general stuff like "working in teams" would be best learned through actually doing it seriously.
gollark: I would of course replace the English lesson badness with bringing arbitrary books in to read yourself.
gollark: School but instead of reading random poems you memorise 'life skills' would be quite ae ae ae, as they say.
gollark: If I were to redesign school, it would be much less regimented (you would not be grouped by year etc.), more flexible (an actually sane schedule and more/earlier choice of subjects), and focus on more general skills (not overly specific reading of books, or learning procedures for specific maths things, or that sort of thing). Additionally, more project-based work and more group stuff.
gollark: Those are specific uses of some of those things, yes. Which is why those are important. Although programming isn't intensely mathy and interest is trivial.

References
  1. Stoken, Dick (2011). Survival of the Fittest for Investors: Using Darwin’s Laws of Evolution to Build a Winning Portfolio. McGraw Hill Professional. ISBN 9780071782296.
  2. Hirsch, Jeffery (2012). Stock Trader's Almanac 2013. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118226100.
  3. "Survival of the Fittest for Investors". O'Reilly Media. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  4. Jubin, Brenda (December 12, 2011). "'Survival Of The Fittest For Investors' Can Help Boost Returns". Seeking Alpha. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
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