I began investing at the age of 14 and, at the age of 21, secured a job as a financial consultant at a top Wall Street firm. At 23, I was managing $65 million in client funds. Ultimately frustrated by Wall Street's prevalent practice of contradictory buy-side/sell-side analysis and behavior, I obtained my MBA from a top business school and became a proprietary trader contributing to a successful firm.
Having studied options trading, finance theories, efficient markets and economics, I learned that although not worthless, formal education was ultimately irrelevant to peak performance in real-world market application. Upon achieving consistent above-market returns, I started my own fund just 1 day before the
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market peak in October, 2007. Now I look to share ideas with the investing/trading community to help offset the toxic practices so prevalent on Wall Street.
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