Trader Profiles (19 Articles)



Some of the most talked-about traders in the world will be highlighted in this section. From Cohen to Soros to Cramer to Paulson.

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Boaz Weinstein Loses $1.8 Billion Dollars, Starts Hedge Fund

Boaz Weinstein, a formerly ultra-successful credit trader at Deutsche Bank AG, has announced that he will be leaving the firm after his group suffered through a $1.8 billion dollar loss in 2008.

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Bill Fleckenstein to Close Short-Only Hedge Fund, Open Long-Short Fund

Bill Fleckenstein, well-known perma-bear, has announced that he is closing his short-only hedge fund and opening a new long-short fund.

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John Paulson Continues to Dominate

John Paulson, the man who correctly predicted that the housing market was going to collapse, is set to post another big year in 2008.

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Barton Biggs - "We Are In For the Mother of All Bear Market Rallies"

Barton Biggs of Traxis Partners believes that we are close to a major 30-50% bear market rally. Is he right?

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Timothy Sykes DVD Review

Review of the instructional DVDs that Timothy Sykes is currently offering, including Pennystocking, Shortstocking and TimRAW.

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Icahn Enterprises GP Inc. Feeling the Pinch as Well

Carl Icahn and Icahn Enterprises LP have been forced to inject capital into Icahn Enterprises GP Inc. to deal with increased investor redemption demands.

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Christian Siva-Jothy Ignores Downturn in Hedge Fund Industry as His SemperMacro Fund Posts Large Gain in September

Christian Siva-Jothy and his SemperMacro fund posted an extremely strong gain in September as equity markets plunged. Siva-Jothy is a former head of proprietary trading at Goldman Sachs.

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Warren Buffett Is Enthusiastically Bullish on US Equities

Warren Buffett recently published an op-ed piece in the New York Times, extolling the virtues of investing in the US equities market. Some were surprised by his extremely and unabashedly bullish stance.

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Andrew Lahde Flips Wall Street The Bird, Rides Off Into Sunset

After posting a stunning 870% gain in 2007, Andrew Lahde has decided to close the door of his hedge fund permanently, but not without a few choice words for Wall Street.

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Mark "Goldfinger" McGoldrick to Run His Own Hedge Fund

Mark "Goldfinger" McGoldrick has announced that he will be launching a new five billion dollar special situations hedge fund.

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Ron Insana Closing Insana Capital Partners "Legends" Hedge Fund

The idea was a simple one.

Ron Insana would open a hedge fund called "Legends". The hedg...

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Barton Biggs of Traxis Partners LLC Predicts 1,000 Point Uptick in the Dow

These are certainly interesting times on Wall Street right now.

On Friday, Bear Stear...

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Phil Goldstein of Bulldog Investors Fund Challenging SEC on Hedge Fund Advertising Laws

Phil Goldstein of the Bulldog Investors Fund is preparing to take on the SEC over the coming weeks o...

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Who Are the Best Investor and Best Trader of all Time?

When it comes to the stock market, there are two people that I admire more than anyone else. Sure, t...

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Lahde Capital Up an Eye-Popping 1000% in 2007

Lahde Capital, a hedge fund run out of Santa Monica California by Andrew Lahde, has returned an abso...

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Jim Cramer Goes Bananas on CNBC

Jim Cramer is passionate about the market. He's passionate about the economy. And now he is extra pa...

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Cramer Berkowitz: The Hedge Fund That Launched Jim Cramer Into Super-Stardom

Historical iPhone sales infographic - how many iPhones has Apple sold since the release of the first iPhone in 2007?

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Jim Cramer: Do you Love Him or Do you Hate Him?

I think that regardless of your feelings about Jim Cramer, you could probably agree that he is proba...

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Anthony Elgindy - A Big Influence in My Trading Career



If I had to list my influences as a trader, I would have to list Warre...

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