I found this pretty interesting. Anyone have any ideas on these men?
Example is the best precept Aesop, Ancient Greek and Author
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Bruce Kovner, Hedge Fund Manager at Caxton Corporation
Estimated Net Worth: $2 Yards Plus
Main Market: Currencies/FX
Summary: Harvard edued, former Taxi driver, employed credit from mastercard to begin trading
Personality Mention: Ultra secretive, mom committed suicide,Very creative and imaginative, sexually conservative, Pro-Iraq war, from California
Best resource on Kovner: Market Wizards, pg.51; http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news...eatures/12353/
Dan Zanger, Independent Trader, runs Chartpattern website
Estimated Net Worth: $20 Million
Main market: Naz stocks
overview: High school grad, Former ski buttocks and swimming pool repairman, got hooked on markets out of Charting the Market television show, took leveraged account up 29,233 percent in 1 year throughout tech bubble
Personality Mention: Small life out trading, trading extremist, trades from 88-foot yacht with global satellite reach, Raised in California, likes wines and art
Best resource on Zanger: http://www.chartpattern.com/cf/index.cfm
Kenneth C. Griffin, Hedge Fund Manager of Citadel Investment Group
Estimated Net Worth: $2 Yards Plus
Main Market: Bond Arbitrage
Summary: Started trading stock options as freshman from Harvard dorm room, bond arb as sophomore, , has been running millionion in faculty, Citadel big on quantitative trading methods, $12 yards and under management
Personality Mention: held next wedding at Garden of Versailles, taste for expensive Art, Does not permit everyone to speak with his former traders, tough guy to work for, Plays PS2 video games, spouse conducts independent hedge fund-Aragon Global, plays in football leagues, brainy
Best resource on Griffin: http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news...d=asibq1F2VEMk
George Soros, Hedge Fund Manager (now passive) of Quantum Fund
Estimated New Worth: $11 Yards Plus
Main Market: Currencies/FX
Summary: Holocaust survivor, researched at London School of Economics, traded together with Jim Rogers #5 before big fallout, Soros and community of associates gunned down (slapped cable/sterling for yards (billions) in profits in a week. Soros offshore thing alone slapped a 10 lawn cable short on. Laughed when Bank of England said they would shield cable by borrowing $15 yards.
Personality Mention: Insecure, divorced twice, emotionally detached, very ballsy-will go for the jugular when he sees something, morally and politically liberal, athiest, extremely dedied to nonprofit Open Society Institute, likes chess, checkers, and tennis.
Best resource on Soros: Soros: The Life and Times of A Messianic Billionaire by Michael T. Kaufman
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Jim Rogers, Independent Investor, Author of Hot Commodities
Estimated Net Worth: $150 Million
Main Market: Commodities
Summary: By Alabama, Edued at Yale and Oxford, based Quantum Fund with Soros earlier 'the divide' where rumors were thrown around. Fired following the Soros split from Morgan Stanley. Trades Everything and anything with Macro outlook. World Traveler. Author of Hot Commodities , Adventure Capitalist,and Investment Biker
Personality Mention: double divorced/ now married, misanthrope,emotionally detached, dull, hard to work with, quite contrarian, queries all, Very original, well researched independent thinker, quite frugal, rode motorcycle around the world and later drove modified Mercedes around world for Guinness World Records.
Best resource: Market Wizards pg.283, http://www.jimrogers.com/