Sweet Homes, Chicago
Article :
June/July 2006
For Windy City traders -- or frequent travelers to the town -- the futures market for downtown real estate has never been so liquid. Behold the many highly anticipated properties that are slated to turn the Second City into a first-rate trove of luxury living.
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London Calling
Article :
December 2005/January 2006
When a British hedge-fund player sought a new home, he eyed London's swank Lonsdale Square. There he built a 6,000-square-foot pad that would make Austin Powers proud. Yeah, baby!
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Hamptons Hedge
Article :
June/July 2005
When one hedge-fund mogul built a summer palace, he also hedged his aesthetic bets -- with a spectacular design that's one part Chinese, one part Victorian and one part pure American mansion.
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Living Gallery
Article :
April/May 2005
When in New York, James R. Hedges IV doesn't merely like to look at art - he likes to live among it
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Sky Captains
Article :
April/May 2005
Raking in profits, aiding the needy and then kicking back on the roof deck: all in a day's work for the boys of Lime Brokerage
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Tropical Paradise
Article :
February/March 2005
When the weather in Chicago gets cold, Morgan Stanley's Joe Siegman heads to his
South Florida Zen palace
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Italian Masterpiece
Article :
December 2004/January 2005
Milan has style, raising the bar for Maurizio Fabris and his bachelor duplex
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Spanish Accents
Article :
December 2004/January 2005
In Puerto Banús, Spain, the sun shines on even the worst trading days
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Miami Oasis
Article :
October/November 2004
Peter Taylor's trading success has translated into South Beach and Atlantic Ocean views and a toy-laden license to chill
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Boiler Room
Article :
October/November 2004
A 150-year-old mill inspires Jim Miclot's traders
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The Tip Sheet
Article :
November/December 2008
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Cross-Border Capital Flow
Article :
November/December 2008
Financial markets...tanking. Real-estate market...tanked. What's a home-buying trader to do? Flee to Mexico, where the beer is cold, the sand is white and the high-end homes actually maintain
some of their value.
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Who’s Got The Coffey?
Article :
November 2008
In times of trouble, looks like even Greg Coffey, former star trader of hedge fund powerhouse GLG, would rather pass up $300 million with which to start his own fund in favor of the loving bosom of a more established firm. But which? Well, let’s just say that until the self-starter coast is clear again, it seems the 37-year-old Aussie will be seeking shelter as co-chief investment officer in Europe for his former employer's closest rival.
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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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Yen Surges To Six-Month High Vs Dollar
Article :
October 2008
As Wall Street runs red (and into the red) and $5 trillion of market value flushes itself down the toilet inside of a week, here’s how the safe haven investments are already getting beyond overcrowded.
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Helping the Homeless in New York City and Baltimore
Posting :
Mark Whistler
:
09/26/2008
Here's how Eats For The Streets just made lunches for 340 people...
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The Day the Markets Died
Article :
September 2008
Who doesn't love a good parody every once in a while? Sent to
TraderDaily.com by a fan, the following rewrite of Don McLean's
"American Pie" matches up nicely to our current circumstances.
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Sold To You! Bagholder Meet Pain
Posting :
Larry Levin
:
07/15/2008
The government's attempt to shore up FNM and FRE haven't worked if today's market action is any indication of the eventual outcome.
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You Cannot Keep A Good Rogue Down
Article :
April 2008
Infamous “rogue trader” Jérôme Kerviel is back on the job, albeit an entirely different one than before: he’s now a computer-security trainee. So, just how did he work out this rather soft landing? Elementary, he befriended one of his lawyer’s expert witnesses on IT issues – who also agreed to stash Kerviel in his own home for awhile as the news broke of the trader’s multibillion-dollar losses. The expert, while downplaying assertions by France’s central bank chief that Kerviel was a “computer genius,” nonetheless wasted no time in poaching Kerviel just before the besmirched trader was jailed (he’s since been released; see following story). No computer skills eh? Do tell.
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Fibonacci Retracements, Sac Lunches for Boston and Mantra
Posting :
Mark Whistler
:
03/12/2008
The major indices rebounded on Tuesday, read on for key Fibonacci retracements.
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Back in the USSR!
Article :
February/March 2008
We scoured Trader Monthly’s international “archives” to unearth this 1989 Soviet edition — and excerpted just a few of its many timeless insights.
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Head Butler - Books - The Unknown Terrorist By Richard Flanagan
Posting :
Jesse Kornbluth
:
01/18/2008
The most exciting thrillers I've read in the last few years --- Peter Temple's Identity Theory, Charles McCarry's The Tears of Autumn and now this nail-biter from Richard Flanagan --- all have politics at their center
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Blah, Blah, Another Senate Probe
Article :
January 2008
How many are there going on now? We are seriously losing count. Why Senate investigators somehow found themselves examining whether Wall Street firms improperly structured transactions to help hedge funds dodge their dividend taxes, instead of probing something more important like, oh, maybe the war in Iraq.
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No More Softball
Article :
October 2007
How one Congressman’s “mother of all tax proposals” may soon become the carnage-laden mother of all lobbying frenzies – with a war chest being erected to sluice the green-hued spoils of Wall Street directly to friends in Washington. A sneak preview of what is shaping up to be the mother of all pi$$ing contests.
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Screen Play
Article :
October 2007
We had one global-macro trader screen the HSX. Reviews were decidedly mixed.
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Homeless? Don’t Let That Stop You From Bidding On Sony
Article :
August 2007
For an itinerant who has lived in a homeless shelter and traveled on Greyhound buses, would-be rainmaker Lawrence Niren thinks pretty big. Why being short of cash need not stop a clever man from causing a lot of commotion.
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Last Refuge From LBOs Flames Up
Article :
May 2007
Finance companies were once considered a sacred refuge from leveraged buyouts – mainly because investors thought their profits depended on investment-grade credit ratings, so they couldn't afford to pile on debt. Turns out they were so, so wrong.
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House Porn
Posting :
Jesse Kornbluth
:
01/12/2007
Derry Moore's collection of photographs "Rooms" offers up a dazzling peek into the homes of the very rich and well mannered
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Spyder Man
Article :
Oct/Nov 2006
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?
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Violence Nudges Oil Prices Up
Article :
July 2006
Violence in the Middle East and the Russian oil spill are credited for Monday’s higher oil prices
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Deutsche Bank Investigation Expands
Article :
May 2006
A federal investigation into Deutsche Bank's role in tax shelters has expanded to include the bank's links with other firms and digital options
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Gimme Shelter
Article :
April/May 2006
Why burn your valuable vacation time booking a measly five-star hotel room when you could walk through the front door of a private luxury home and stroll out the back door into paradise? Behold the finest residence-club properties in the world -- and the keys to making them yours.
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Doctored Evil?
Posting :
Jonathan Uretsky
:
02/08/2006
The importance of themes: Enron prosecutors say this is a case of lies and choices. Lay and Skilling's defense says they are far from "evil."
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Easy Pickens
Article :
December 2005/January 2006
Iconic speculator T. Boone Pickens has ruled the energy markets for half a century. How does the tycoon remain at the top of the hedge-fund game?
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Scaling Profits
Article :
December 2005/January 2006
Mead Welles drums up success for his two Octave hedge funds by applying theories he learned as a musician.
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Going Deep
Article :
August/September 2005
Whether slamming 95-mph fastballs or landing the largest contract in sports, Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez knows how to go for the longball. But when we handed him $50,000 to invest for a week, could he hit a home run for charity?
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