A Portrait of a Fallen Hedge Fund Manager - The New York Times
2024-07-06 16:45October 8, 2007 8:00 am. Victor Niederhoffer, the hedge-fund manager who lost his entire $130 million portfolio in the Thai stock market crash of 1997, has found himself out of luck again. The latest downfall of Mr. Niederhoffer, who in September was forced to close two of his funds, including his flagship, Matador, is tracked in a long profile ...
PRIVATE SECTOR; Trappings of Faded Riches: Sold!
Victor Niederhoffer, money manager who lost all his capital in October 1997, when Global Systems funds he managed for himself, his family and investors were hurt by several decisions he made, is ...
Victor Niederhoffer - Wikipedia
Victor Niederhoffer (born December 10, 1943) is an American hedge fund manager, champion squash player, bestselling author and statistician. Life and career. Niederhoffer was born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family. His paternal grandfather Martin (Martie), an accountant and court interpreter, married Birdie (née Kuminsky) in 1916.
The Rollercoaster Trader: How Victor Niederhoffer Won and ... - YouTube
Dive into the extraordinary story of Victor Niederhoffer, a renowned trader whose career is a thrilling tale of significant highs and profound lows. Known as...
Blowing Up: How Nassim Taleb turned the inevitability of disaster into ...
Victor Niederhoffer was one of the most successful money managers in the country. He lived and worked out of a thirteen-acre compound in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and when Taleb drove up that day from his home in Larchmont he had to give his name at the gate, and then make his way down a long, curving driveway. ...
The Blow-Up Artist | The New Yorker
The Blow-Up Artist. Niederhoffer's approach is eclectic. His funds, a friend says, appeal "to people like him: self-made people who have a maverick streak.". PHILIP BURKE. On a wall opposite ...
The Rise And Fall Of Victor Niederhoffer (How This Hedge Fund ... - YouTube
This video profiles the rise and fall of Victor Niederhoffer - the cantankerous yet intriguing hedge fund manager and squash Hall-of-Famer who served as ins...
Victor Niederhoffer: The Maverick Trader's Guide to Market Resilience
Key Takeaways. Victor Niederhoffer is a renowned figure in finance, known for applying scientific methods and statistics to market speculation, challenging established investment beliefs and authoring influential financial literature such as 'The Education of a Speculator'.; Niederhoffer emphasizes a contrarian approach to trading, combining quantitative analysis with historical market ...
Victor Niederhoffer: the world's greatest investors | MoneyWeek
Victor Niederhoffer: the world's greatest investors. Victor Niederhoffer set out to disprove the efficient market hypothesis, prevalent among economists at the time. Niederhoffer was born in New ...
That is the lesson of Taleb and Niederhoffer, and also the lesson of our volatile times. There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps ...
A Lesson in Risk: $45 Million Fund Lost in Trading
Over the last 14 years, fund manager Victor Niederhoffer racked up one of the best records in the managed-futures industry, averaging a 30 percent annual return for his investors.All that went out ...
Victor Niederhoffer: Lessons of Making and Losing a Fortune
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews the fascinating Victor Niederhoffer, a nationally ranked squash champion and former Berkeley professor of finance and statistics. An undeniably ...
A Family Tale, Toned Down for Fiction - The New York Times
By Erika Kinetz. Feb. 26, 2006. IT is a truth acknowledged in the Niederhoffer family that a man in possession of six daughters must be in want of a son. The man in question is Victor Niederhoffer ...
The Third Fall of Victor Niederhoffer | Seeking Alpha
The Third Fall of Victor Niederhoffer. Oct. 09, 2007 4:07 AM ET 2 Comments. Felix Salmon. 59.58K Follower s. There are a few real characters in finance, and Victor Niederhoffer is one of the most ...
10 Things I Learned While Trading for Victor Niederhoffer
Here are 10 things I learned during my time trading for Victor: 1.) Test, test, test. Test everything you can. If someone says to me, "There's inflation coming so you better short stocks," I know right away the person doesn't test and will lose money. Data is available for almost anything you can imagine.
How Victor Niederhoffer Blew Up - Twice - SteadyOptions
This is how Malcolm Gladwell describes what happened in 1997: "A year after Nassim Taleb came to visit him, Victor Niederhoffer blew up. He sold a very large number of options on the S. & P. index, taking millions of dollars from other traders in exchange for promising to buy a basket of stocks from them at current prices, if the market ever fell.
Victor Niederhoffer Documentary - English Subtitles - 1997
FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. I do not own the rights!After rejecting the requests of 150 different media companies, Victor Niederhoffer granted one Japanese med...
The education of a speculator : Niederhoffer, Victor, 1943- : Free ...
In the world according to Victor Niederhoffer, life is speculation and we are all speculators, except when we lose - then we are gamblers. We speculate on our careers, relationships, games, and investments. Life-changing decisions hang on our ability to read and anticipate turns of events. In The Education of a Speculator, Niederhoffer opens ...
3 Things To Learn From Market Speculator Victor Niederhoffer - Forbes
Victor and Laurel declared me the winner, the year 2000 did fortuitously turn out to be a market peak, and the valuable prize I collected was a visit to Victor's trading office in Weston, CT.
If You Haven't Already, Meet Victor Niederhoffer - CNBC
Niederhoffer is a Harvard trained statistician and economist, with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, who has been trading options and futures since the late 1970's. George Soros once wrote ...
#9 Victor Niederhoffer - The Market Speculator - YouTube
Victor Niederhoffer is one of the most famous investors and a true pioneer. After rubbing shoulders with a few of the future Nobel Laureates at the Universit...
Roy G. Niederhoffer Negative Correlation Fund was the Absolute Return Managed Futures Fund of the Year in 2008, when it returned 55%, and the Diversified Fund Offshore was also nominated for its 2008 performance of 51%. R. G. Niederhoffer Diversified Fund Offshore was the HFM Week Magazine Managed Futures Fund of the Year in 2008.
本書是華爾街傳奇人物維特．倪德厚夫（Victor Niederhoffer），在從事投機事業25年的火線上，跟大家分享他受挫後東山再起的心得。他寫完備受讚譽的暢銷投資經典傑作《投機客養成教育》(The Education of a Speculator)(中文版，寰宇出版智慧投資109,110)後，現在和國家 ...