Quant Genius Jim Simons Jumps into Micron (MU), Turns the Gas Up on Tesla (TSLA)
Once a code-breaker for the military, Jim Simons is a known Wall Street numbers wizard for creating algorithms that spin numbers into billions and results that beat out the market. The 80 -year-old is a genius quant investor with a Ph.D. in math from Berkeley who founded private hedge fund titan Renaissance Technologies in 1982 to retire in 2009. That said, Simons continues to act as the fund’s…