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    Losing Our Edge?

    pffft, the nytimes is a stupid rag - don't bother reading it
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    Market Wizards

    I've been reading some of his columns on MSN Money and he mentioned that Soros doesn't want to talk to him anymore. Was there some sort of falling between them before he left Soros Fund Management?
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    Market Wizards

    His website is a mess, not easy to navigate at all. He mentioned somewhere in there though that he had to mortgage his house and sell his antique silver trophys to start anew trading. Any idea on how much he was worth before his funds went belly-up?
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    Market Wizards

    Thanks for the info, I think I might buy those books and do a little research on him
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    Market Wizards

    I think you have to consider that Buffett manages 180billion in assets, so to say that someone like PTJ can compound his way up is misguided in my view. For PTJ to manage that kinda dough he probably would have to modify/change his trading methodology. Not to mention most hedge funds use...
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    Market Wizards

    Can anyone give me a breif history lesson on who Niederhoffer is and exacly what happened to him?
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    Forex vs Currency Futures

    Do you know what the minimum deposit requirements are for opening a CitiFX or Deutsche Bank FX trading account?
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    Market Wizards

    Warren Buffett is old and has a much longer track record than those guys above, not to mentioned that Warren manages about 180Billion in assets or about 2.5% of the S&P500 free float -- MUCH more difficult than cohens 4billion dollar sissy fund (just kidding). If those guys you mentioned...
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    Market Wizards

    Kovner and PTJ are Global Macro, which means they capture market movements based on economic trends. Cohen on the other hand is widely characterized as a traditional long-short equity fella, however, it seems to me he doesn't rely completely on bottom-up stock research and does have an overal...
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    Market Wizards

    Yeh, it seems like no trader/investor can really last very long at the top. Soros and Julien Robertson both called it quits after they suffered huge losses late in their career. Soros himself said that he has got a good chance of staying at the top of the performance rankings because he doesnt...
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    Market Wizards

    Does he have a website or something where he sells his "trading system"?
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    Market Wizards

    Wow that sux, I've only read parts of the books, what calibre is Richard Dennis at? How does he compare to Cohen, Tudor Jones, Soros etc? Thanks buddy
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    Market Wizards

    I've been told that half of the traders interviewed in the market wizards books have blown up and a lot of them teach now.. anyone know if htis is true?
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