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Jim Cramer, Now and Then

From the closing moments of “Mad Money” today, March 28, 2008:
People say bad things when they get short and they knock the stock down!
Sounded like he was complaining, didn’t it? Complaining about … Jim Cramer?
From Confessions of a Street Addict, page 61 of the paperback version, he describes his hedge fund’s activities, circa 1992:
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Quantitative Trading Systems

Quantitative Trading Systems by Howard Bandy is the type of book that begs the question: Just how serious do you want to get about this? If the answer is “really serious,” this is a book that needs to be on your shelf. Howard manages to compress a great deal of practical knowledge and […]

An American Hedge Fund

“An American Hedge Fund” by Timothy Sykes is not only a brutally honest assessment of a trader’s personal growing pains, but also a revealing look inside the grunt work of a hedge fund: raising capital. Tim got hooked on trading stocks at an early age, and turned his Bar Mitzvah money into a small […]

Jim Cramer, Little Miss Goody Two-Shoes

Follow along with me in Jim Cramer’s book, Confessions of a Street Addict.
Page 61 of the paperback version, he describes his hedge fund’s activities, circa 1992:
We became merchants of the buzz, getting long stocks and then schmoozing with analysts about what we saw and heard that was positive. Or we would get […]

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Every book I will feature here is a book that I have bought, read, and would recommend to a friend. These are books that have had a positive influence on my trading and investing. My plan is to build a “virtual trading and investing bookshelf” and fill it with not only a list […]