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Thanks for the great information thus far! I'll take a look at all of these book recommendations immediately, and I much appreciate the suggestions to look at swing pairs trading and yield curve spreads as potential strategies. Any other potential strategies that might be worth exploring...

Although I appreciate the response, I think the point of asking questions, educating oneself and properly managing risk from day one is to avoid such unnecessary losses. If one is sensible about risk exposure from day one, one should theoretically be able to pick investments at random and end...

Thanks for the responses thus far. At least for the time being, I think I have the psychological part taken care of, as part of being a research analyst is being publicly wrong on a not infrequent basis. You learn to take your lumps, recognize the error(s) in your original analysis, revise...

I have worked at a well-known investment bank as a senior research analyst for approximately ten years, and, with the substantial structural changes likely to take place on Wall Street over the next few years, I'd like to take advantage of my current downtime to explore a potential longer-term...