Larry Hite, Michael Covel

The Rule: How I Beat the Odds in the Markets and in Life-and How You Can Too

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Produktbeschreibung

An empowering story of learning from life's challenges-with critical insights, strategies, and lessons you can take to the bank In The Probability of Life, Larry Hite tells how he went from dyslexia, partial blindness, and isolation to the founder of Mint, one of the most profitable and largest quantitative hedge funds in the world. Larry's journey presents invaluable lessons gained primarily from failure and those failures seen across humorous stories are packed with timeless investing wisdom. These are the exact lessons that propelled Hite to the top of the investing world. Hite's wisdom gained from a life as an investor comes through on every page. He shows that investing decisions are not only bets or gambles, but investments in time, energy, and attention. By focusing on realistic returns on these investments, versus what we expect or hope to get, we immediately improve our probability for success.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781260452655
• ISBN-10: 1260452654
• Artikelnr.: 55559689

Autorenporträt

Larry Hite was the founding principal and Managing Director of Mint Investment Management Company. During his 13-year tenure at Mint, the composite of funds achieved a compounded annual rate of return greater than 30% before fees during that period. Hite pioneered the use of the "guaranteed fund" concept, which helped Mint be the first to raise over $1 billion. >

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD by Michael Covel, author of
Trend Following and TurtleTrader
INTRODUCTION: Get in the Game
PART 1 SHEEPSHEAD, PORK BELLIES, AND BLACKJACK
1 Know Who You Are:
How I Learned from Failure
2 Find the Game You Love:
My Education as a Trader
3 Working the Odds:
Your Time and Opportunity Horizon
4 Trend Following:
Cut Your Losses and Let Your Winners Run
5 How to Lose Money,
Including How I Lost Millions
PART II THE MINT FUND, MARKET WIZARDS,
AND LIVING THE RULE
6 Making Mint:
Know Where You Are Playing the Game 1
7 How My Philosophy Can Work for You:
Applications of the Rule
8 And the Philosophy Continues to Work:
The Next Generation
9 Conversations with a Young Trader-
with Kolade Oluwole
10 You Have Choices:
Persistence Pays Dividends
APPENDIX: Pieces of Mind
INDEX