Word: trader
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...upheaval follows famous troubles at another suffering hedge fund, Julian Robertson's Tiger Management, which has shut down, and at Berkshire Hathaway, where Warren Buffett's poor performance of late has put the stock into a historic tailspin. Buffett, of course, is no day trader. But totting up the problems of some of the world's most revered investors can be instructive--O.K., and a little...
...keep planning ahead, with all the certainty and assurance of an expert trader last November. I hedge my bets, indulge myself, anticipate--all weeks, months, seasons in advance. I had, for example, a summer job in September. Some of this is due to accident (my summer job was a natural continuation of the term-time one), and some to the kind of advanced planning that seems, here, to be a matter of survival...
...Concerning day traders, the members of the CWF had a decidedly negative opinion. But before the 20-minute day trader bashing began, Sinhababu noted, "People here are generally not good day traders." Indeed, Fan Wu '01 told of a few days where he cut class to trade, and watched one stock he purchased increase by 100 percent, 200 percent, and then fall to below the purchase price...