TABLE OF CONTENTS
Women In Trading
October/November 2006
In the Club
These fearless women are making their mark on the markets -- and their inspiring stories offer lessons for all.
London Brawling
Once a year, London's hedge-fund heavies get together to beat each other's brains out -- for a good cause. It's called Hedge Fund Fight Nite.
Casinos Royale
Behold our bet for the greatest casinos in the world.
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Open
Heavy Reading
Reads
By
Doug Donaldson
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This Manchester United history is the year's biggest book - literally.
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Cojones
Caffeinated Market
Who Knew?
By
Andrew Barber
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What do impotence, coffee and the LSE have in common?
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Who Knew?
Body of Evidence
Doctor's Orders
By
Randall Lane
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The most complete -- and we mean complete -- medical exam you'll ever get
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Doctor's Orders
Home Video, Tudor Style
The Truth Squad
By
Andrew Barber
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Did Paul Tudor Jones really make a cheesy '80s movie?
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The Truth Squad
Bigmouth Strikes Again
Side Gig
By
Alex Koppelman
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Equities trader Tim Janus shovels it in on the competitive-eating circuit
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Side Gig
Insider Info
Hot News, Gossip and Industry Dish
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High/Low
Error Management
My Worst Trade
By
John Person
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I was in my prime and at the top of my game. Then I botched
a trade so badly it nearly wrecked me. Bottoms up!
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My Worst Trade
October Surprise
Celebrity Trader
By
Alan Schwarz
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Reggie Jackson was one of the most clutch athletes ever, invariably coming through with games and championships on the line. But how would he perform trading the tech sector?
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Celebrity Trader
Married to the Market
Hall of Fame
By
Andrew Barber
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After making his name as one of the most famous currency traders ever, you might think Bill Lipschutz would slow down. Think again.
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Hall of Fame
Into Africa
Life After Trading
By
Hilary Lewis
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Leery of burnout, one City trader gave up swinging London for life
in the Zambian bush. Return to the U.K.? Well, maybe -- but leaving a place like this would be a tough trade to make.
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Life After Trading
The Shootist
Performance
By
David Dent
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Nick Ponzio took dead aim at the top of the trading world and nailed his target. Along the way, he's had a blast.
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Performance
Slaying the SEC
The Ask
By
Andrew Barber
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Phillip Goldstein took on the feds on behalf of hedge funds everywhere . . . and won. For the first time, he speaks extensively about why he fought -- and where his battle is going.
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The Ask
Vary Your Style
The Card Shark
By
Johnny Chan
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In a trading rut? Just consider this: Mixing up my cash-management style in a televised poker game once allowed me to bring down a $300,000 pot.
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The Card Shark
Hedgie Shark Jump?
The Lord of Discipline
By
Ken Grant
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We interrupt this regularly scheduled program to bring the
hedge-fund community an important news bulletin: You're
skiing into dangerous waters.
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The Lord of Discipline
Home Invasion
The Trade
By
Jonathan Hoenig
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Playing the residential housing market has never been so simple. Here's why the bursting of the real-estate bubble could prove a trading boom.
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The Trade
Directions
Happy B-Day!
List
By
Andrew Barber
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Rich Blake
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Our handy A-to-Z guide to everything you need to know to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Boesky.
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List
London Brawling
Fashion
By
Michael Callahan
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Once a year, London's hedge-fund heavies get together to beat each other's brains out -- for a good cause. It's called Hedge Fund Fight Nite, and in honor of its third annual installment, to be held this December, we rewarded a few of this year's pugilists by outfitting them in some of Savile Row's finest suits. The sartorial results were, dare we say, nothing short of a knockout.
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Fashion
500 Days
By
Rich Blake
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Andrew Barber
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Behind the seeming glamour of a startup hedge fund exists a harsher reality. It's a perilous landscape, pocked with empty promises and endless roadblocks, littered with the carcasses of failed ventures. For 18 months, we followed three would-be hedgies with a dream. Could their fund survive to reach critical mass -- or would it require critical care?
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Casinos Royale
By
Steve Bourie
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Beyond the cheesy chintz of your average casino resides a world of luxury gambling parlors -- each oozing with money, teeming with beautiful people and lined with the finest felt money can buy. Behold our bet for the greatest casinos in the world.
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In the Club
Feature
By
Leah McGrath Goodman
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Male traders get ahead through good performance. To succeed in this industry, female traders must often be great. These fearless professionals are making their mark on the markets -- and their inspiring stories offer lessons for all.
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Directions
Close
Music to Your Ears
Gadgets
By
Mark Spoonauer
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Jabber away! Listen to tunes! With these musical mobile phones, you'll never suffer a moment of silence again
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GadgetsUK
Mad Props
High Flyer
By
Robert Goyer
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The Piaggio Avanti II is the turboprop plane that thinks it's a jet. It's clearly delusional. But in a good way.
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High Flyer
Flight Time
Watch List
By
Norma Buchanan
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Don't know an altimeter from an Altoid? No problem. These pilots' watches will take your style to new heights
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Watch List
Spyder Man
Wheels
By
Matt Carroll
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We put one London-based trader in a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder and set him loose in the British countryside on a road known as the "Devil's Dyke." Just sounds like a bad idea, doesn't it?
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Wheels
Mix Masters
Liquidity
By
Anthony Giglio
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When is a home bar actually a home bar, and not just a bunch of bottles of booze? When it's stocked with these six essential mixing ingredients.
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Liquidity
Miami's Newest Vice
Home Equity
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Forget the days of Scarface and nursing homes. Today's Miami is all about luxury real estate - and a softening market that's poised to be a buy.
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Wake-Up Calls
Ask the Dream Doctor
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When traders dream, bizarre and terrible things happen. But fear not, for the Dream Doctor is in. Sleep tight.
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