Was intended to be honest rather than great, but glad you enjoyed it. If you're willing to ascribe it to 'a derivatives trader' or some such, help yourself -- in fact, I'll write a more polished version for you. But I'd prefer not to have my name attached, for now.
Culinary and Hospitality Books???? please we are talking about hardcover investment and trading books here which is the relevant topic lol
Thanx for the kind words (to u2 Brownsfan and all my other supporters!) I really don't mind the crap people say about me, when you talk about money publicly and especially in a real sense, you're gonna piss some people off. But its all worth it every time somebody tells me they've been inspired by my story. Can't give away too much yet as I'm still running my fund, all I can say is EVERYTHING is in the book--as are all my mistakes (of which I've made plenty, CYGT, cough, cough). I think you all might be surprised, but since I can't give the ending away just yet, feel free to speculate and rip away... Cool, I will ascribe it to "A Derivatives Trader," for now. Please def. polish it up and message/eamil me or post it on this board. If you ever want to go public with your comments, just let me know. Anyway, I'm going to Chicago tomorrow for a few days for some meetings, most notably with the producers at Oprah (oh yes, I sent them a copy and they liked it enough to want to meet me right away) so get ready for me teaching Oprah to trade--how funny would that be? You kids be good now...
He hasn't laid his results on the line. I'm not sure he's laying anything on the line since he really doesn't have much to put out. Also., you should ask him about CYGT...ought to be good!
Hey If you like the guy thats great. Post away. But some people think he is a jackass. So they have the right to call him out. Did you see his appearances on CNBC? Any shot of him ever raising money was completely gone after that. His answer to why he likes a stock ...."It's got a beautiful chart" got old after about 10 tries. That and the fact he had no idea what some of the companies were that he was actually trading was pretty...umm....ridiculous. The model thing was entertaining though.
I find it rather odd he is off to promote his book while the market volatility is getting pretty damn good again. Strange. The few hedge fund managers I have worked with who I still talk to wouldnt think to stop trading during these crazy moves. One guy I worked for yrs ago who is still going strong actually cancelled a vacation due to some of these swings in the mkts.
OK, I'll speak slowly and E-NUN-CI-ATE this time. Quality books on technical aspects of trading are expensive regardless of publisher. Again, have a look around the Wilmott bookshop http://books.global-investor.com/pages/home.htm and you'll notice many books with list prices in the $hundreds. If you want to pay $20, buy a for-idi0ts book from http://tinyurl.com/22pevx .. . or the latest from Jack Welch.. . (or buy a cookbook).. .
I don't have a hedge fund. But if I setup the structure of a hedge fund and invested all my own money and not much else, as Tim did, I'd be doing better than him and my fund would have more money. I'm also younger if you want to add that crap into the mix. I don't have a fund therefore I don't have performance records....you don't have Tim's either. This is a silly question. Maybe if I nearly blow out my account investing in a crap pink sheet like Tim did...then you can look for my tell-all memoir and judge me from that...but for now you can't. Who wants to be on a television show really? Tim isn't competing with anyone as he only has his own money, most of which he's lost recently, and that's the sad truth.
Wow, many, many years of outperformance and then one little drawdown and all of a sudden I've lost most of my money? Maybe you really should write my book, you seem to know more about my financial situation than I do. Please, please ghostwrite my book for me, you've already gone over 1,000 posts here so you obviously have nothing better to do!
Maybe my math is off, but your best yr was + 23%. Last year you were - 25%. Thats a tad bit worse than a tiny little drawdown.