The Greatest Trades of All Time: Top Traders Making Big Profits from the Crash of 1929 to Today

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Overview

PRAISE FOR THE GREATEST TRADES OF ALL TIME

"From The Boy Plunger to Chanos chewing on girl scout cookies, Vince brings the history of this game's greatest to life."
—Keith McCulloughfounder of Hedgeye Risk Management

"This is an exhilarating tour through the most audacious and???profitable financial feats of our time. Veneziani shows us not just???the greatest trades but the men who dared to make them."
—John Carney editor of CNBC's NetNet

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Overview

PRAISE FOR THE GREATEST TRADES OF ALL TIME

"From The Boy Plunger to Chanos chewing on girl scout cookies, Vince brings the history of this game's greatest to life."
—Keith McCulloughfounder of Hedgeye Risk Management

"This is an exhilarating tour through the most audacious and???profitable financial feats of our time. Veneziani shows us not just???the greatest trades but the men who dared to make them."
—John Carney editor of CNBC's NetNet

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780470645994
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/4/2011
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 166
  • Sales rank: 294,741
  • Series: Wiley Trading Series , #483
  • Product dimensions: 6.32 (w) x 9.26 (h) x 0.74 (d)

Meet the Author

Vincent Veneziani is a trader and writer on markets, financial news, hedge funds, and??economics for financial publisher Markets Media. He has also appeared on CNBC, Russia Today, and the BBC as a commentator. Previously, Veneziani worked at Business Insider covering Wall Street and the economy. He has also written in the past for Gawker Media, AOL, the New York Daily News, Popular Mechanics, and TechCrunch. Veneziani currently resides in New York City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Introduction.

Chapter 1 Timing is Everything (J. Kyle Bass).

The Back Story.

A Few Definitions.

Kyle Asks Why.

Learning from the Past.

Shorting Subprime Loans.

The Best Position.

The Effects of Abuse.

Who Was Watching?

Recreating Bass's Trading Strategies.

Bass's Top Traits.

Chapter 2 The Real King of Enron (James Chanos).

Enter Enron.

Really Looking at Enron.

The Best Position.

Recreating Chanos's Trading Strategies.

A More Recent Example.

Chanos's Top Traits.

Chapter 3 Legendary Global Macro Trader (Paul Tudor Jones II).

Following a Genius.

The Path of Greatness.

Knowing All the Markets.

More Keys to Jones's Success.

Success beyond Trading.

Recreating Jones's Trading Strategies.

Jones's Top Traits.

Chapter 4 Legendary Mutual Fund Manager (John Templeton).

What Made Templeton Famous.

Templeton's Life before Investing.

Templeton's Big Move.

Looking to the Future, and the Templeton Growth Fund.

Recreating Templeton's Trading Strategies.

Templeton's Top Traits.

Chapter 5 Legendary Speculator (Jesse Livermore).

Livermore's History.

At Home in New York.

Livermore's Tragic End.

An Example of Livermore's Influence Today.

Recreating Livermore's Trading Strategies.

Livermore's Top Traits.

Chapter 6 The Greatest Trade of All Time (John Paulson).

Paulson's Early Career.

The Greatest Trade.

Recreating Paulson's Trading Strategies.

Paulson's Top Traits.

Chapter 7 From Humble Beginnings to World Trader (George Soros).

Soros's Famous Trades.

The Hardships of a Trading Genius.

Going to School in London.

Work in New York.

Joining the Big Leagues.

Finding Himself.

Crashing from Success.

A New Protégé.

Onto the World Stage.

A Conflicted Mind.

A New Era.

Recreating Soros's Trading Strategies.

Soros's Top Traits.

Chapter 8 A Company's Worst Nightmare (David Einhorn).

Allied Is Not an Ally.

Lucky Lehman.

The Great Beyond.

Recreating Einhorn's Trading Strategies.

Einhorn's Top Traits.

Chapter 9 From Amateur to Superstar (Martin Schwartz).

Start Small, Go Big.

Trading like a Rock Star.

Winding Down.

Recreating Schwartz's Trading Strategies.

Schwartz's Top Traits.

Chapter 10 Master of Energy (John Arnold).

Success at Enron.

Centaurus Energy.

The Explosion.

Recreating Arnold's Trading Strategies.

Arnold's Top Traits.

Chapter 11 More Great Trades (Phillip Falcone, David Tepper, Andrew Hall, Greg Lippmann).

Phillip Falcone.

Recreating Falcone's Trading Strategies.

David Tepper.

Recreating Tepper's Trading Strategies.

Andrew Hall.

Recreating Hall's Trading Strategies.

Greg Lippman.

Recreating Lippmann’s Trading Strategies.

In Summary.

Notes.

Glossary of Terms.

References.

Helpful Websites.

Index.

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