{"id":2124,"date":"2008-11-09T20:17:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T03:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2008-11-09T20:17:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T03:17:51","slug":"winners-and-loser-among-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/11\/09\/winners-and-loser-among-hedge-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners and Loser Among Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When sky&#8217;s fall, apparently they do not fall equally everywhere (contrary to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Efficient_market_hypothesis\">popular theory<\/a>.)  A partial is of those who&#8217;ve held up the sky (and even pushed higher) in this <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/10\/business\/economy\/10hedge.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">New York Times article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bernard V. Drury is a rarity on Wall Street: a hedge fund manager who is making money rather than losing it.<br \/>\nWhile most hedge funds are sinking into red this year and unsettling the markets in the process, a handful of them are posting spectacular gains. Mr. Drury&#8217;s fund, for instance, is up 60 percent since Jan. 1.<br \/>\nHow did he do it? Mr. Drury, a former grain trader, is not giving away his secrets. He relies on proprietary computer models to chart tides in the markets and to ride the prevailing currents. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being a successful trader is often like being a good error correcting code: don&#8217;t want to reveal any information from local prying eyes!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnd a great line at the end of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Roy Niederhoffer, founder of R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, whose more famous brother, Victor, made and then lost a fortune trading, is up more than 50 percent. To predict how investors will behave, Roy Niederhoffer, who majored in neuroscience at Harvard, delves into psychological research.<br \/>\nBut Mr. Niederhoffer does not need much research to tell him that some investors chase winners. With his fund soaring, investors are piling on. His assets under management have climbed to $2 billion, from $700 million earlier this year.<br \/>\nStill, Mr. Niederhoffer is not planning any celebrations.<br \/>\n&#8220;The greatest danger at a time like this is hubris,&#8221; he said. He has banned fist-pumping victory poses on his trading floor. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When sky&#8217;s fall, apparently they do not fall equally everywhere (contrary to popular theory.) A partial is of those who&#8217;ve held up the sky (and even pushed higher) in this New York Times article: Bernard V. Drury is a rarity on Wall Street: a hedge fund manager who is making money rather than losing it. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/11\/09\/winners-and-loser-among-hedge-funds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winners and Loser Among Hedge Funds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}