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Resources

Tools and readings our team recommends for learning about quantitative finance.

Quantitative finance books

  • Advances in Financial Machine Learning (book cover) Advances in Financial Machine Learning
  • The Elements of Statistical Learning (book cover) The Elements of Statistical Learning
  • Algorithmic Trading: Winning Strategies and Their Rationale (book cover) Algorithmic Trading: Winning Strategies and Their Rationale
  • An Introduction to Statistical Learning (book cover) An Introduction to Statistical Learning
  • Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance (book cover) Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance
  • Essentials of Stochastic Processes (book cover) Essentials of Stochastic Processes
  • Machine Learning for Asset Managers (book cover) Machine Learning for Asset Managers
  • The ETF Handbook (book cover) The ETF Handbook
  • Efficiently Inefficient (book cover) Efficiently Inefficient
  • Machine Learning for Asset Managers: Investment Strategy (book cover) Machine Learning for Asset Managers: Investment Strategy
  • Active Portfolio Management (book cover) Active Portfolio Management
  • High-Frequency Trading (book cover) High-Frequency Trading

Selected reads

  • Flash Boys (book cover) Flash Boys
  • Liar's Poker (book cover) Liar's Poker
  • Beat the Dealer (book cover) Beat the Dealer
  • The Man Who Solved the Market (book cover) The Man Who Solved the Market
  • Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (book cover) Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
  • Dark Pools (book cover) Dark Pools
  • Market Wizards (book cover) Market Wizards
  • Fooled by Randomness (book cover) Fooled by Randomness
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow (book cover) Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • A Random Walk Down Wall Street (book cover) A Random Walk Down Wall Street
  • The Theory of Poker (book cover) The Theory of Poker
  • When Genius Failed (book cover) When Genius Failed

Quant papers

  • The Statistics of Sharpe Ratios
  • What Happened to the Quants in August 2007

DeCal readings

Selected readings from past iterations of our Introduction to Quantitative Finance DeCal.

  • Week 2Black–Scholes
  • Week 4Market Microstructure
  • Week 5Fama and French
  • Week 6Statistical Arbitrage in the U.S. Equities Market
  • Week 7Markowitz: Portfolio Selection
  • Week 8Quantitative Trading Summary — Headlands Technologies

Recruiting resources

  • Acing the Quant Interview — written by one of our members.
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