Detached Trader's List of 5 Traders Worth Studying

[StarHedgeFundTrader]

Anyone have any thoughts of this list. I found it pretty interesting.


http://detachedtrader.com/2006/02/detached-traders-list-of-5-traders.html

Example is the best precept" Aesop, Ancient Greek and Author


#1

Bruce Kovner, Hedge Fund Manager at Caxton Corporation
Estimated Net Worth: $2 Yards Plus
Primary Market: Currencies/FX
Summary: Harvard educated, former Taxi driver, used credit from mastercard to start trading
Personality Mention: Ultra secretive, mother committed suicide,Very creative and imaginative, politically conservative, Pro-Iraq war, from California
Best resource on Kovner: Market Wizards, pg.51; George Soros's Right-Wing Twin (New York Metro)


#2

Dan Zanger, Independent Trader, runs Chartpattern website
Estimated Net Worth: $20 Million
Primary market: Naz stocks
Summary: High school graduate, Former ski bum and swimming pool repairman, got addicted to markets from "Charting the Market" television show, took leveraged account up 29,233% in one year during tech bubble
Personality Mention: Little life outside of trading, trading extremist, trades from 88-foot yacht with international satellite reach, Raised in California, likes wines and art
Best resource on Zanger: ChartPattern.com


#3

Kenneth C. Griffin, Hedge Fund Manager of Citadel Investment Group
Estimated Net Worth: $2 Yards Plus
Primary Market: Bond Arbitrage
Summary: Started trading stock options as freshman from Harvard dorm room, bond arb as sophomore, , was running million in college, Citadel big on quantitative trading methods, $12 yards plus under management
Personality Mention: held second wedding in Garden of Versailles, taste for expensive Art, Doesn't allow anyone to talk to his former traders, tough guy to work for, Plays PS2 video games, wife runs separate hedge fund-Aragon Global, plays in soccer leagues, brainy
Best resource on Griffin: Bloomberg Piece on Griffin

#4

George Soros, Hedge Fund Manager (now passive) of Quantum Fund
Estimated Net Worth: $11 Yards Plus
Primary Market: Currencies/FX
Summary: Holocaust survivor, studied at London School of Economics, traded with Jim Rogers #5 before big fallout, Soros and network of associates gunned down cable/sterling for yards (billions) in profits in a week. Soros offshore entity alone slapped a $10 yard cable short on. Laughed when Bank of England said they would defend cable by borrowing $15 yards.
Personality Mention: Insecure, divorced two times, emotionally detached, very ballsy-will go for the jugular if he sees something, morally and politically liberal, athiest, extremely dedicated to non-profit 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

#5

Jim Rogers, Independent Investor, Author of Hot Commodities
Estimated Net Worth: $150 Million
Primary Market: Commodities
Summary: From Alabama, Educated at Yale and Oxford, founded Quantum Fund with Soros before 'the split' where rumors were thrown around. Fired from Morgan Stanley after the Soros split. Trades Anything and Everything with Macro outlook. World Traveler. Author of Hot Commodities , Adventure Capitalist, and Investment Biker
Personality Mention: twice divorced/ currently married, misanthrope,emotionally detached, blunt, hard to work with, very contrarian, questions everything, Very original, well studied independent thinker, very frugal, rode motorcycle around the world and later drove modified Mercedes around world for Guinness World Records.
Best resource: Market Wizards pg.283, Jim Rogers personal website

 

[Directional]

I'm not particularly interested in any of these traders - they had their "day" years or decades ago. Traders who really interest me in todays markets are people like Paul Rotter "the flipper" who can be seen most days in the bund market.

 

[StarHedgeFundTrader]

I'm not particularly interested in any of these traders - they had their "day" years or decades ago. Traders who really interest me in todays markets are people like Paul Rotter "the flipper" who can be seen most days in the bund market.

Yeah, Paul Rotter is part of the cream of the crop. But the essential frameworks for what made these traders great could only help the trader that studies them. Bruce Kovner is one of the best traders in the world regardless of his age.

 

[Quenkish]

What about Steve Cohen

 

[Bigbusiness]

There is a big list of the worlds top traders (allegedly) in this thread:-

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41070

The only one I have read about is Mark Fisher. His ACD method is worth a look. I don't think I could use the way he trades it but it did give me some good ideas.

http://www.trade2win.com/boards/showthread.php?t=12695