Trade Like a Hedge Fund
Trade Like a Hedge Fund is a book that contains successful strategies behind hedge fund investing, written by James Altucher, a partner at a hedge fund company focused on special arbitrage situations and short-term statistically based strategies. With hedge funds and hedge fund trading strategies that have been proven and tested for their flexibility, aggressiveness, and creativity, this book also contains examples and updated trading advice. It also contains tips on how to capitalize and build fresh and practical ideas to the trading table, with over 20 uncorrelated trading strategies and techniques to enable readers to trade and invest like never before. Trade Like a Hedge Fund can help you increase the value of their portfolios, while decreasing risk.
"If you want factual advice based on real research, this is a must-read."
—Larry Williams, author, The Right Stock at the Right Time
"Altucher, a successful money manager, reveals his most profitable stock trading strategies and how to use them, despite strong protests from his partners and clients. Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Grab them ASAP!"
—Yale Hirsch, founder of Stock Trader's Almanac and editor of thirty-seven annual editions
"I can't believe that James Altucher has written this book! He's given away dozens of ways I know to make money. I am glad I'm not in the game anymore. He could ruin it."
—James J. Cramer, founder and markets commentator of TheStreet.com, and co-host of CNBC's Kudlow & Cramer
"Trade Like a Hedge Fund is to investing what Julia Child's The Art of French Cooking is to cuisine."
—Donald Luskin, SmartMoney.com
"Should you have this in your library? Most definitely, it...maps out exactly how to turn theory into profits."
—Gary B. Smith, TheStreet.com
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
TECHNIQUE 1: The Bread and Butter Trade—Playing Gaps.
TECHNIQUE 2: How to Play the QQ Q-SPY Spread Using Unilateral Pairs Trading.
TECHNIQUE 3: Buying Bankruptcies.
TECHNIQUE 4: Using the TICK.
TECHNIQUE 5: Playing the Bands.
TECHNIQUE 6: Stocks Less Than $5.
TECHNIQUE 7: The Slow Turtle.
TECHNIQUE 8: The QQQ Crash System.
TECHNIQUE 9: The Relative Fed Model (and Other Fun Things You Can Do with Yields).
TECHNIQUE 10: Deletions from the Indexes.
TECHNIQUE 11: Everything You Wanted to Know About the 200-Day Moving Average but Were Afraid to Ask.
TECHNIQUE 12: End of Quarter, End of Month, Outside Month.
TECHNIQUE 13: Ten Percent Down—Panic 101.
TECHNIQUE 14: Taking Advantage of Option Expiration Day.
TECHNIQUE 15: Extreme Convertible Arbitrage.
TECHNIQUE 16: Intraday Bollinger Bands.
TECHNIQUE 17: All Good Things Come in Fours (“4” Is a Magic Number).
TECHNIQUE 18: The Wednesday Reversal.
TECHNIQUE 19: What Does Not Work?
TECHNIQUE 20: Reading List.