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Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win

ISBN: 978-1-118-28361-5
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544 pages
April 2012
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Foreword ix

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xvii

Part One Macro Men 1

Chapter 1 Colm O’Shea: Knowing When It’s Raining 3

Chapter 2 Ray Dalio: The Man Who Loves Mistakes 47

Chapter 3 Larry Benedict: Beyond Three Strikes 77

Chapter 4 Scott Ramsey: Low-Risk Futures Trader 103

Chapter 5 Jaffray Woodriff: The Third Way 129

Part Two Multistrategy Players 159

Chapter 6 Edward Thorp: The Innovator 161

Chapter 7 Jamie Mai: Seeking Asymmetry 223

Chapter 8 Michael Platt: The Art and Science of Risk Control 261

Part Three Equity Traders 285

Chapter 9 Steve Clark: Do More of What Works and Less of What Doesn’t 287

Chapter 10 Martin Taylor: The Tsar Has No Clothes 323

Chapter 11 Tom Claugus: A Change of Plans 359

Chapter 12 Joe Vidich: Harvesting Losses 385

Chapter 13 Kevin Daly: Who Is Warren Buffett? 405

Chapter 14 Jimmy Balodimas: Stepping in Front of Freight Trains 423

Chapter 15 Joel Greenblatt: The Magic Formula 451

Conclusion 40 Market Wizard Lessons 489

Epilogue 507

Appendix A The Gain to Pain Ratio 513

Appendix B Options—Understanding the Basics 515

About the Author 519

Index 521