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- Product code: 20746
- ISBN: 0471677744,
ISBN13: 9780471677741,
400 pages, paperback
Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc on 2005
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Description of Practical Speculation |
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.
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Contents of Practical Speculation |
Introduction
PART I: MUMBO JUMBO AND MOONSHINE
1. The Meme
2. Earnings Propaganda
3. The Hydra Heads of Technical Analysis
4. The Cult of the Bear
5. 'We're No. 1' Usually Means 'Not Much Longer'
6. Benjamin Graham, Mythical Market Hero
7. News Flash: Computer Writes Stock Market Story!
PART II: PRACTICAL SPECULATION
8. How to Avoid (Spurious Correlations)
9. The Future of Returns
10. The Periodic Table of Investing
11. When They Swing for the fences, We Run for the Exits
12. Boom or Burst?
13. Market Thermodynamics
14. Practical Market Lessons from the Tennis Court
15. The Fine Art of Bargaining for an Edge
16. An Amiable Idiot in the Biotechnology Revolution
17. Finale
Afterword
Notes
Index
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About Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner |
VICTOR NIEDERHOFFER'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.
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