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Tuesday, March 20

20th Mar - Schwager: Hedge Fund Wizards


Jack D. Schwager, the author of the classic Market Wizards-books, is coming out with a new one: Hedge Fund Market WizardsAmazon, other books by Schwager here. The book is out in May, preorder now.


I had the opportunity to listen to his pitch in Futures and Options World exhibition, Frankfurt am Main, Spring 2003 and have read the Wizards. Even though the books are light on actual content, the interviews were entertaining and inspirational and I recently read them again.

Part I: Macro Men
Chapter 1 Colm O’Shea: Knowing When It’s Raining
Chapter 2 Ray Dalio: The Man Who Loves Mistakes
Chapter 3 Scott Ramsey: Low-Risk Futures Trader
Chapter 4 Jamie Mai: Seeking Asymmetry
Chapter 5 Jaffray Woodriff: The Third Way
Part II: Multi
Chapter 6 Edward Thorp: The Innovator
Chapter 7 Larry Benedict: Beyond Three Strikes
Chapter 8 Michael Platt: The Art and Science of Risk Control
Part III: Equity
Chapter 9 Steve Clark: Do more of What Works and Less of What Doesn’t
Chapter 10 Martin Taylor: The Tsar Has No Clothes
Chapter 11 Tom Claugus: A Change of Plans
Chapter 12 Joe Vidich: Harvesting Losses
Chapter 13 Kevin Daly: Who Is Warren Buffett?
Chapter 14 Jimmy Balodimas: Stepping in Front of Freight Trains
Chapter 15 Joel Greenblatt: The Magic Formula