TABLE OF CONTENTS Women In Trading Oct/Nov 2006 In the Club 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. 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 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.

After the Deluge
Tunes
By Brian Dawson | Page 36
A reworked soul masterpiece for a city on the mend. > read more
Keywords: Tunes , Open

Drag King
Cojones Q&A
By Doug Donaldson | Page 36
Dave Grubnic is blasé about piloting 8,000 horses at 330 mph -- it's trading that really gives him the heebie-jeebies > read more
Keywords: Cojones , Open

Caffeinated Market
Who Knew?
By Andrew Barber | Page 40
What do impotence, coffee and the LSE have in common? > read more
Keywords: Who Knew? , Open

Body of Evidence
Doctor's Orders
By Randall Lane | Page 40
The most complete -- and we mean complete -- medical exam you'll ever get > read more
Keywords: Doctor's Orders , Open

Home Video, Tudor Style
The Truth Squad
By Andrew Barber | Page 38
Did Paul Tudor Jones really make a cheesy '80s movie? > read more
Keywords: The Truth Squad , Open

Mean Return
Ask the Dream Doctor
By Charles McPhee | Page 38
Back on the trading floor -- and scared witless. > read more
Keywords: Dream Doctor , Open

Bigmouth Strikes Again
Side Gig
By Alex Koppelman | Page 32
Equities trader Tim Janus shovels it in on the competitive-eating circuit > read more
Keywords: Side Gig , Open

Error Management
My Worst Trade
By John Person | Page 48
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! > read more
Keywords: My Worst Trade , High/Low

October Surprise
Celebrity Trader
By Alan Schwarz | Page 58
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? > read more
Keywords: Celebrity Trader , High/Low

Married to the Market
Hall of Fame
By Andrew Barber | Page 50
After making his name as one of the most famous currency traders ever, you might think Bill Lipschutz would slow down. Think again. > read more
Keywords: Hall of Fame , High/Low

Into Africa
Life After Trading
By Hilary Lewis | Page 68
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. > read more
Keywords: Life After Trading , High/Low

The Shootist
Performance
By David Dent | Page 44
Nick Ponzio took dead aim at the top of the trading world and nailed his target. Along the way, he's had a blast. > read more
Keywords: Performance , High/Low

Slaying the SEC
The Ask
By Andrew Barber | Page 62
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. > read more
Keywords: The Ask , High/Low

Vary Your Style
The Card Shark
By Johnny Chan | Page 70
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. > read more
Keywords: The Card Shark , High/Low

Hubris Kills
The Head Coach
By Doug Hirschhorn | Page 74
Trade confidently, and chances are you'll be around to taste many a victory cigar. Trade overconfidently, however, and you'll surely get smoked. > read more
Keywords: The Head Coach , High/Low

Hedgie Shark Jump?
The Lord of Discipline
By Ken Grant | Page 72
We interrupt this regularly scheduled program to bring the hedge-fund community an important news bulletin: You're skiing into dangerous waters. > read more
Keywords: The Lord of Discipline

Home Invasion
The Trade
By Jonathan Hoenig | Page 54
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. > read more
Keywords: The Trade , High/Low

Jack of All Trades
Three Rules
By AnnaMaria Andriotis | Page 68
Robert Kelvey has seen booms and busts in everything from bund options to oil. As he readies a new hedge fund, this City veteran maps out his route to success. > read more
Keywords: Three Rules , High/Low

Happy B-Day!
List
By Andrew Barber , Rich Blake | Page 98
Our handy A-to-Z guide to everything you need to know to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Boesky. > read more
Keywords: List , Directions

London Brawling
Fashion
By Michael Callahan | Page 112
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. > read more
Keywords: Fashion , Directions

500 Days
By Rich Blake , Andrew Barber | Page 88
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? > read more
Keywords: Directions

Casinos Royale
By Steve Bourie | Page 100
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. > read more
Keywords: Directions

In the Club
Feature
By Leah McGrath Goodman | Page 79
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. > read more
Keywords: Directions

Music to Your Ears
Gadgets
By Mark Spoonauer | Page 136
Jabber away! Listen to tunes! With these musical mobile phones, you'll never suffer a moment of silence again > read more
Keywords: Toys , Gadgets

Mad Props
High Flyer
By Robert Goyer | Page 140
The Piaggio Avanti II is the turboprop plane that thinks it's a jet. It's clearly delusional. But in a good way. > read more
Keywords: High Flyer , Close

Flight Time
Watch List
By Norma Buchanan | Page 134
Don't know an altimeter from an Altoid? No problem. These pilots' watches will take your style to new heights > read more
Keywords: Watch List

Spyder Man
Wheels
By Matt Carroll | Page 128
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? > read more
Keywords: Wheels , Close

Mix Masters
Liquidity
By Anthony Giglio | Page 142
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. > read more
Keywords: Liquidity , Close

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