Hedge Fund Market Wizards

An indepth vew into Hedge Fund managers

What did you love best about Hedge Fund Market Wizards?

I like the question and answer format of the writing. Instead of an overlaid narrative (which there was some) the questions probed deeper in the theories behind why certain managers made the decisions they did. Also, moving from one subject to the next allowed for you to observe contrasts between the managers. No one style or investment process was favored in the book. It seemed as the writer wanted to illustrate the fact that there was no one key strategy that lead to success but there was underlying traits in each manager that was common to success.

What other book might you compare Hedge Fund Market Wizards to and why?

I would say the book 'Quants' by Scott Patterson. It tells a similar story and the characters are the same so you almost feel familar with them.

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Great audiobook for anyone interested in trading

Jack Schwager has an immense talent for interviewing successful people and distilling the lessons for the rest of us. Excellent choice of traders, Breadth of trading styles, and topics/questions - truly something for everyone.

The narrator helps the listener through the interviews by changing his tone and speaking style; the voice for Jack is consistent, and the voice of the interviewee changes, presumably to match the style of the actual person's voice. There are a few awkward mid phrase pauses here and there, but overall great presentation.

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Narrator Will Put You to Sleep

As -a retired physician who now trades for a living, I find many of Jack Schwager's books to be very helpful and motivating. I think I own and have read them all.

That said, although the content of this book is very good and is true to Jack's exemplary contribution to this field, the narrator will put you to sleep. Even after speeding it up to 1.25x, the reader still sounded a big melancholic and was hard to listen to.

I may need to buy this book, because the Audible version is far to hypnotic to listen to without falling asleep.

Going to try 1.5x now... Maybe The Chipmunks will help put some 'pep' in this reading.

Otherwise... The content is good. Buy the (audio)book. Just be forewarned.

Take care.

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Information

What I like are the different hedge fund managers interviewed. I had to google majority of the people which I liked because I got to learn about people and different investment strategies.

What I dislike: I didn't want to the book to end.

It is a must read I think.

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Great Perspective on Trading

Initially hated the interview format, but grew to love it, and I will now look for similar books.

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Great information - well worth the time!!

Super listen
I highly recommend it.
Great information.
Even an amateur like me understands the information and ideas in book

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Insights and Insights

Would you listen to Hedge Fund Market Wizards again? Why?

Yes. Just like all the Market Wizard books there is much insight that can be gained to help in trading.

What did you like best about this story?

The actionable ideas, the honesty of traders that had huge losses, and huge wins, and what they learned.

Any additional comments?

It was tough to determine at times (chapter 1 & 2) if he was asking the question or answering. Then in all the other chapters he changed is tone when asking questions and answering so it was more enjoyable.

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Somewhat entertaining

Do the wizards interviewed have skill, or are they just lucky? We'll never know unless the author does a followup study a couple of decades from now. In either case, very little information presented in the book will help the average trader.

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The wizards' mind

I find it very interesting to hear all these ideas, and it is not just about the trading, when people take things that they love and pursue in life. Some find it early before they attend to academics and some after. I must say the sooner we find out, the better.
The trading styles are for sure all different and very unique.
This found this book easy to listen to, very interesting, exciting, the narrate is great.
I'm sure will take some stuff and embed in my life, my trading style, small habits to adjust.

Great Book

This book gave great insight into great traders. It explained how these hedge fund managers began there careers. And there different styles of trading. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in investing, trading, and hedge funds.