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Who Is The Best Trader In The World? Jim Simons

In 1982, 40 year old retired mathematics professor Jim Simons founded the Renaissance Technologies hedge fund and staffed it with mathematicians, computer scientists, and physicists to pioneer the world of algorithmic trading. Since 1988, Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies Medallion Fund has returned an average of +66% a year and made over $150 billion in profits […]

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