Wild About Harry’s
Article :
November 2007
Main courses: Filet mignon, dry-aged New York strip,
16-ounce kobe beef burger,
dry-aged rib steak,
three traders, in smart suits,
with shiny watches,
shinier shoes,
two-ply cotton shirts,
enjoying the fruits of victory...
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London Brawling
Article :
Oct/Nov 2006
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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The Exchange
Article :
December 2006/January 2007
Buying holiday gifts for your significant other is the very definition of an efficient market. Choose well, and you'll be rewarded. Choose poorly, and it could be a cold winter indeed. To help hedge your bets this yuletide rally, we've compiled a collection of blue-chip buys, then wrapped it all up in the season's finest fashions.
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Style Points
Article :
April/May 2007
Winning isn’t everything? Right, you’ve also got to look good
while doing it — especially when locked in competition with a disarming beauty. Don one of these elegant tuxes and consider yourself well-attired for the battle of the sexes
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A Cut Above
Article :
June/July 2007
You’re unique. Like a snowflake. They broke the mold and all that. So why would you settle for a suit straight off the rack? Behold the sartorial splendor that resulted when we paired two Wall Street traders with five of Manhattan’s top bespoke tailors.
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Bonus Time
Article :
Feb/March 2007
Flush with cash from another obscene bonus? Then now is the moment to arm yourself with one of the year’s most popular timepieces
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Capital Assets
Article :
August/September 2006
You've got cash. Big heaping piles of cash. So why carry it around in a workaday wallet? Stuff your pocket instead with these money honeys, and bring out your billfold with pride.
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Midsummer Classics
Article :
June/July 2006
Summertime, and the dressing is easy -- so long as your locker is laden with the season's finest threads. For inspiration, we outfitted the New York Mets' new all-star slugger
Carlos Delgado -- one of the most market-savvy players in pro sports -- in some of this summer's coolest casual clothes.
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Partners In Time
Article :
April/May 2006
Chronographs, with their myriad dials, are a fashion craze. But these old-school stopwatches do more than just look good -- they help you make the most of life's most valuable commodity.
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Lights! Camera! Fashion!
Article :
February/March 2006
Hollywood's "traders" might be more Hollywood than trader, but they sure know how to dress. So take a cue from some classic films, couple these big-money looks with today's finest threads -- and get ready to steal the scene.
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Fashion Forward
Article :
December 2005/January 2006
Phoenix Suns all-star Shawn Marion knows his way around a court -- and a market. But whether he's buying and selling or driving and dunking, he always plays with style. To get you suited up for the season's parties (and Shawn well-suited for the season's new dress code), we've decked him out in this year's sleekest formalwear. Let the games begin.
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Tools of the Trade
Article :
October/November 2005
The clothes may make the man, but it's the accessories that make the trader. Whether you're a hedge-fund mogul, a pit-trading animal or just a bed-headed home-based warrior, behold the finest trappings of your success.
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Global Assets
Article :
August/September 2005
If your hometown trading floor is feeling too hometown, it's time to get away -- far away. But what's an international man of mystery to wear? Don't worry, playboy, we've got you covered. Just pack these sleek new threads in your travel bag, and you'll be well-suited for any trading capital.
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Drive Time
Article :
June/July 2005
You already have a supercar in your garage. Now put one on your wrist.
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Hostile Makeovers
Article :
June/July 2005
We dragged five Kellogg Group traders from the floor of the AMEX and swapped their smocks for sleek new threads.
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Welcome to Pinstripes
Article :
April/May 2005
Carl Pavano, the newest Yankee fireballer, has long dreamed of donning the pinstripes. But these days, stripes work with any uniform - Whether you're armed with a power suit or hitting the town after your latest win
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Back In the Trenches
Article :
February/March 2005
Before they were an Apprentice or an Average Joe, Kwame Jackson and Adam Mesh were at Goldman Sachs and Tradescape, respectively. To herald their return to the swirl of Wall Street, we've rolled out the red carpet and decked them in designer coats -- all
the better to help them weather the storms of the trading world
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Cold Calls
Article :
December 2004/January 2005
The chill of winter requires a seasonal adjustment, in the form of this season's hottest sweaters. Assuming, of course, that you can pry them off your girl
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Bulls Market
Article :
October/November 2004
When you run the floor for the Chicago Bulls, the town is yours for the taking.
The team's MVP, Kirk Hinrich, takes his game -- and his sleek tailored suits -- on a fast break through the Windy City
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On Being Tarred, Feathered
Article :
November 2008
As red-letter events go, Europe’s biggest bank (HSBC) setting aside $4.3 billion in rainy-day money for bad U.S. loans and the biggest engine to the world’s growth (China) whipping out a $586 billion stimulus package designed to back ``fast and heavy-handed investment'' in housing and infrastructure and a ``relatively loose'' monetary policy are pretty major, we’d say. But we also posit that having five of the most renowned and wealthiest investment managers summoned for an old-fashioned roasting (reportedly unprecedented for the roughly $1.8 trillion hedge-fund industry) on Capitol Hill might also be impressive. Of course, we won’t know for sure, however, until Thursday.
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Cyclical Stock
Article :
November/December 2008
These luxury turntables are as much works of art as the music you play on them.
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Pure Plays
Article :
November/December 2008
These organic vintages are redefining the notion of sustainable growth.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: How To Lead In Unprecedented Times
Article :
November 2008
In a market racked by writedowns, bailouts, layoffs and no shortage of negativity, three top minds in restructuring share their thoughts on how to persevere.
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Taleb As His Own Guinea Pig?
Article :
November 2008
We find it a strange phenomenon when the very man who earnestly writes about being “fooled by randomness” and “black swans” perhaps becomes his own best example of these things. Even so, those who dismiss Nassim Nicholas Taleb as a hack (and you might not disagree if you saw him, as we did, speaking in fumbling fashion at London’s Mandarin last month to the shocked bemusement of all) cannot dismiss the performance of his hedge funds, which, according to this report, have been no less than superlative.
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Out of the Darkness
Article :
November/December 2008
Two emerging-markets traders don five up-and-coming labels.
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Distress Signals
Article :
November/December 2008
How dire is the situation facing the financial system and the larger economy? A roundtable of distressed-securities experts share their outlook.
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Greenspeak
Article :
November/December 2008
With efforts to reduce CO2 emissions gaining momentum, Evolution's Andrew Ertel exhales some carbon-credit expertise.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Winners Of Wall Street Fight Night
Article :
October 2008
Copper River Management's Andre Ameer wins Best Boxer award and shares Best Bout with Cantor Fitzgerald's Patrick Mitchell. MSCI's Cecilia Aza defeats ICAP's Kelly Vergamini in first ever Wall Street Boxing women's bout. Auction proceeds benefit Tuesday's Children and the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Read on for all the highlights.
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Five Steps Down, One Step Up, and Congress Wants to Question the Top of the Trader 100
Article :
October 2008
Markets give back early dead cat bounce gains. Economy at issue,
and big hedge funds continue to feel the heat. And for the first time in a few decades, traders have to account for DEFLATION.
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Just In Time For Recession, Russian Mig Fighter Hits eBay
Article :
October 2008
Got about $6 million you want to flush down the pan with the rest of this economy? Great, that’s all you’ll need to own this piece of military history. Too bad it’s not fashionable anymore to own one.
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Head Butler -- Books: D.V.
Posting :
Jesse Kornbluth
:
10/10/2008
You know all about "pink is the navy blue of India" and "wash your blond child's hair with dead champagne" and "the bikini is the most important invention since the H-bomb," but you may have been busy elsewhere when Diana Vreeland's memoir appeared.
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Bears Market
Article :
October 2008
Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs is an All-Pro on the field -- and a CEO off it. As he kicks off another season of hostile takedowns, we rushed him to the floor of the CME and suited him up in the season's hardest-hitting looks.
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Traveling Circus
Article :
October 2008
Is a one-day stand in Sin City with a bevy of automotive supermodels being unfaithful to your car? We dropped a Vegas-based trader in the saddle of 2,500 horsepower to see if more is ever enough.
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Great Scot
Article :
October 2008
In remote western Scotland, Machrihanish Dunes is inspiring a very rational exuberance.
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High Society
Article :
October 2008
When canvassing the South Pacific, take a short position against
cruise ships and puddle-jumpers by traveling in the most luxurious
way: island-hopping by helicopter.
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Hot News, Gossip and Industry Dish
Article :
October 2008
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Counterfeit Capitalism
Posting :
Larry Levin
:
09/30/2008
Without Uncle Sam's handout today, the markets dropped like a rock. Without Uncle Sam's assistance, Washington Mutual was taken out late last week and Wachovia Bank bid us adieu today. Both banks no longer exist in their recent forms. Without government largesse, which is 100% financed, our so-called capitalist system should be called what it is: counterfeit.
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Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic?
Article :
September 2008
Knowing that he’s gotten your attention with the regular Sunday hijinks, fire-eating and dancing bears, why should Paulson stop now? Plus, you know he couldn’t get off the Goldman clock if he tried. Still, this weekend’s goings-on were much weirder than the usual run-of-the mill bank bailouts/freakouts/sellouts/whatever that we’re getting used to. Seems Bernanke’s Fed has waved its magic wand and turned both Goldman Sachs (speaking of) and Morgan Stanley into traditional bank holding companies. Which, from what we can tell, greatly limits their roles and ushers in a crush of regulation. But, here’s the kicker: they are ALL RIGHT with this. Which is to say these banks, as we know them, will cease to exist. Read on to find out what, if anything, will be left.
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And Now, For The Most Influential Man In The World...
Article :
September 2008
Obviously, he doesn’t have a lot of hair (as is the hallowed preserve of the ‘most influentials’) but he’s got wealth, vision and the inscrutable ‘x factor’ – whatever that is.
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Hopefest Day Four: America, We Are Better Than This
Article :
August 2008
Barack Obama is heading for the home stretch for the White House, accepting his party’s nomination Thursday night. He hopes to turn around a “failed presidency” and restore America’s promise. Traders fear he might be bad for business, but he sure does give a good speech.
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Mercedes Benz G Class
Article :
2009 Luxury Car Preview
The 2008 Mercedes-Benz G-Class' flat sides, the nearly vertical windshield, and the ultra-boxy shape is wonderfully retro - a reminder of the days when sport-utility vehicles were few and far between.
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2009 Luxury Car Preview
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One-Bagger
Article :
September 2008
Who on earth would haul BlackBerry, quantitative analyses and a mobile trading platform on a trip to a tropical paradise? You, that's who. But you can't go lugging just any old luggage to the lands of sandals and sand. These elegant travel bags will bear your burdens in style.
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It Wasn't Me!
Article :
August 2008
Steve Rattner, forced out of Credit Suisse's DLJ Merchant Banking
division over a bygone affair exacerbated by an Internet smear campaign, is giving those of the same moniker a bad rap. The "other" Steve Rattner, managing director at the Quadrangle Group, and manager of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's blind trust, is pleading with his peers in the same fashion as pop star Shaggy, "It wasn't me!"
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Short These Issues
Posting :
Raymond Lee
:
08/01/2008
Nothing new ever happens in trading. Accounts are routinely trashed in the same way over and over again. Here's seven ways traders commonly trash their accounts, often to the point of giving up on trading.
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Head Butler -- Books: The Driver's Seat
Posting :
Jesse Kornbluth
:
08/01/2008
There is no writer more despicable than the reviewer who spoils a book by revealing significant plot points.
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Banks Are Sound, Trust Us
Posting :
Larry Levin
:
07/28/2008
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Keep on Loading Up that Carry Trade
Article :
July 2008
Iceland has decided to hold interest rates steady at a whopping 15.5%. At least this small Nordic country in the middle of the North Atlantic acknowledges that it has an inflation problem, while its friends a few thousand miles to the southwest insist on harking back to the Jimmy Carter era of high gas prices and good old fashioned stagflation.
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Arnold, Hunter, Collins & Co., Get Ready...
Article :
July 2008
Fans of trading never seem to get enough of a good old fashioned blow up. And many of such instances have taken place in the natural gas market. According to two nations in the oil and gas game, the price is only going up, and may the short squeezing follow.
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Old-Fashioned Swiperoo: Hedge Funds Target Banks
Article :
June 2008
Why banks are fast losing top oil analysts to that ever-naughty hobgoblin of global financial markets: the hedge fund.
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Commodities Kings: Stop Them If You Can
Article :
June 2008
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are both poised to report some of the biggest earnings hauls of the world's top securities firms this week. They also happen to lead Wall Street in commodities trading, as crude oil futures target 30 record highs this year and everything from gold to corn raises the proverbial roof. Coincidence or psychic phenomena?
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Reads: Other People’s Money
Article :
June 2008
Our field guide to the care and feeding of the fabulously wealthy.
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Are They Next?
Article :
June 2008
In the throes of the Bear Stearns collapse nearly three months ago, sans the Fed, the smart money was betting on a good old fashioned domino collapse that would take down the next most overleveraged broker on the street. Like its peers, Lehman is apparently globetrotting around to keep itself afloat, and cannot seem to get a break from relentless short-seller David Einhorn. Will another renowned shop be gobbled up by the next best positioned bank? Having lost all of its market value since the US economy emerged from its last recession, it has a very long way to go.
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Mechanical Rules for Discretionary Profit Taking
Posting :
Raymond Lee
:
05/30/2008
I recently came across a strategy for taking profits on a winning trade that was mechanically discretionary.
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Natty Dread
Article :
May 2008
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Almost Famous
Article :
May 2008
We scoured the Trader Monthly “archives" to unearth this celeb-tastic 2007 spin-off — and excerpted just a few of its many timeless insights.
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Exile on Wall Street
Article :
June/July 2008
When the market is hitting bottom (and beginning to dig), it takes some skill to walk away from the fray looking not only unbeaten and unbowed, but downright, positively stylish.
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And Now, A Word From The Back Office...
Article :
May 2008
Signaling the rash of job cuts stalking the financial community is beginning to singe even the most devout workers – you know, the ones who got up early, kept their heads down, never fussed, put their backs uncomplainingly to the grind (not to mention refraining from brown-nosing, water-cooler gossip and all office-politicking, and are beginning now to think the better of it) – this open letter from one fallen Bartleby stands as an ominous warning of what happens to those who come to Wall Street with stars in their eyes.
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Other People's Money
Article :
June/July 2008
A field guide to the care and feeding of the fabulously wealthy.
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Head Butler: Products - Cambodian Market Bags
Posting :
Jesse Kornbluth
:
05/02/2008
There will come a time when that question is as archaic as “Shall we take the flivver or the carriage?”
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Wall Street Asks: WWJD?
Article :
April 2008
Ever wonder what Jesus would do if He went to Wharton? Or how He would spend His Goldman signing bonus? Well, thank G-d for “Revisions,” Princeton's "Journal of Christian Perspective," which explains the holy joys of i-banking.
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PENCIL it in
Posting :
Ann Lee
:
04/18/2008
Ever wonder what happened to good old-fashioned apprenticeships? Well, they seem to be making a comeback as community groups also ponder the problem of how to improve our public school systems.
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Liquid Assets
Article :
April/May 2008
With their high-tech fibers and high-fashion cuts, these raincoats block out the worst of the downpour - even when your financial sky is falling.
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Almost Famous
Article :
April/May 2008
We scoured the Trader Monthly “archives" to unearth this celeb-tastic 2007 spin-off — and -excerpted just a few of its many timeless insights.
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Countrywide
Article :
March 2008
There’s nothing better than making a boatload on your winning vision. Unless, maybe, you’re making another boatload of cash on its demise. How former Countrywide Financial president Stanford Kurland plans to do just that by launching an investment firm with Laurence Fink’s BlackRock Inc. and Boston’s Highfields Capital Management.
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Fashion: Power Tools
Article :
March 2008
The clothes may make the man, but it's the accessories that make the money man. Here’s how to swing that bling.
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Rare Weekend 3.13.08: Your Weekend Starts Now
Posting :
Raredaily.com Rare Weekend
:
03/13/2008
The newest and hottest in fine dining, nightlife, travel and men's style, from New York City to Los Angeles.
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House Rules: Leap Year Doesn’t Count
Article :
March 2008
Remember last week’s Leap Year bloodbath that made half the market weep? It never happened. Yup, that’s right. Call it the magic of the Fed.
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Head Butler - Books - Park Avenue Potluck: Recipes from New York's Savviest Hostesses
Posting :
Jesse Kornbluth
:
02/29/2008
In the silver serving bowl on the cover of “Park Avenue Potluck”, there's a....could that really be a casserole?
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