Survival of the fittest for investors : using Darwin's laws of evolution to build a winning portfolio / Dick Stoken.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: The origin of a new investment strategy
• The Investment game
• The Investment environment: an ever-changing landscape
• The Darwinian alternative framework
• The stock market is a living system
Part II: Variation: the first important Darwinian insight
• An Alternative investment Portfolio: based on variation
• A passive combined asset strategy
Part III: Fluctuations: the key to understanding complex adaptive systems
• Trends: the central feature of our investment and economic world
• A paradox in our investment and economic world
Part IV: Selecting asset class "FITS"
• Critical levels in the stock market
• Gold and long-term treasuries: buy and replace
• REIT Estate investment trust trends
• An active combined asset strategy
• Risk: taking on more
• The twenty- first century “Real Estate” bubble
Part V: A Darwinian world.
• The agent role in a Darwinian world
• How the major components of search engines apply in today’s world
• Conclusion don’t sell evolution short

Guide to the cutting-edge science of complex adaptive systems in financial markets tells you where to find and how to track the evolutionary instability underlying these markets. It shows how, with heightened insight and a powerful algorithm, you can survive and thrive in volatile markets by following the simple principles of evolution