THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE MARKET

摘要

PERHAPS IT'S NOT SUR-prising that the worlds of literature and hedge funds colliding. But no one would have predicted the other elements of this tale: angry investors, regulators, even the principles of astrophysics. Our stranger-than-fiction story starts in the late 1980s, when Robert Taylor, then a construction executive and amateur scientist, began formulating a theory that fluctuations in the earth's gravity influence investors. Over the years, he refined the idea, which he calls the Taylor Effect, into a stock market trading strategy. In March, Taylor, 59, revealed his system to the world in a mystery novel called Paradigm; think The Da Vinci Code for the Wall Street set. It has all the hallmarks of a great summer read. The protagonists crack the secret of the stock market, a dangerous discovery that threatens their lives. It's Taylor's second book; his first was OPStime, a 1994 nonfiction work on human behavior.