The follow-up to Victor Niederhoffer''s critically and
commercially acclaimed book The Education of a Speculator has
finally arrived. Practical Speculation continues the story of a
true market legend who ran a hugely successful futures trading firm
that had annual returns of over thirty percent until unforeseen
losses forced him to close operations. Like a phoenix rising from
the ashes, Niederhoffer returned to the world of trading stocks,
futures, and options, with a new colleague and a n
內容簡介:
The follow-up to Victor Niederhoffer''s critically and
commercially acclaimed book The Education of a Speculator has
finally arrived. Practical Speculation continues the story of a
true market legend who ran a hugely successful futures trading firm
that had annual returns of over thirty percent until unforeseen
losses forced him to close operations. Like a phoenix rising from
the ashes, Niederhoffer returned to the world of trading stocks,
futures, and options, with a new colleague and a new approach and
found success. Order your copy of this compelling story of risk and
survival today.
關於作者:
VICTOR NIEDERHOFFERa s storied career as a speculator spans
more than twenty--five years. In the introduction to Practical
Speculation, Vic describes the rollercoaster his hedge fund rode
from No. 1 in 1996 to the debacle in 1997 that forced him to close
his fund. Rather than giving up, he wrote this book "figuring that
by trying to teach others, I might learn something myself,"
apparently with some success. Niederhoffer was ranked No. 6 for the
year 2003 among 200 managed futures hedge funds in the TASS
database, and is No. 4 in the performance rankings through
mid--2004. Niederhoffer is the author of the critically acclaimed
Education of a Speculator as well as numerous groundbreaking
academic articles about markets. A magna cum laude graduate of
Harvard, he holds a doctorate in economics from the University of
Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is a five--time national
champion in squash and claimed the world title in 1976. LAUREL
KENNER has written several hundred columns on the stock market with
Victor Niederhoffer for CNBC money, Active Trader magazine,
worldlyinvestor.com, and TheStreet.com. She previously spent five
years as chief U.S. stocks editor at Bloomberg News and five years
as an award--winning aerospace reporter for Copley Newspapers.
目錄:
Introduction
PART ONE: MUMBO JUMBO AND MOONSHINE
1The Meme
2Earnings Propaganda
3The Hydra Heads of Technical Analysis
4The Cult of the Bear
5"We Are Number One" Usually Means "Not Much Longer"
6Benjamin Graham: Mythical Market Hero
7News Flash: Computer Writes Stock Market Story! PART TWO:
PRACTICAL SPECULATION
8How to Avoid Spurious Correlations
9The Future of Returns
10The Periodic Table of Investing
11When They Swing for the Fences, We Run for the Exits
12Boom or Bust?
13Market Thermodynamics
14Practical Market Lessons from the Tennis Court
15The Fine Art of Bargaining for an Edge
16An Amiable Idiot in the Biotechnology Revolution
17Earnings Impostors
18Finale
Afterword
Notes
Index.