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Comment on Street Freak Jared Dillian Podcast Interview by Manuelbravochico

Manuelbravochico — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:37:00 +0000

This book is what should have/should be made into a movie instead of that garbage “Margin Call”.
Are you listening KS…?

Comment on Street Freak Jared Dillian Podcast Interview by Friday links: penny stocks and Ponzis | Abnormal Returns

Friday links: penny stocks and Ponzis | Abnormal Returns — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:58:33 +0000

[...] Michael Martin talks with Jared Dillian author of Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers. (Martin Kronicle) [...]

Comment on Aaron Brown Interview: Red Blooded Risk by Risk Can Be a Good Thing - Sybase Expert

Risk Can Be a Good Thing - Sybase Expert — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:01:13 +0000

[...] actually go to places where people are taking risk or try it themselves,” Brown told trading blog MartinKronicle. “We [Brown and his band of original quants] sought wisdom from actual risk-takers,” he said in [...]

Comment on Aaron Brown Interview: Red Blooded Risk by The head of risk at AQR on the qualifications that will help ... | Job News & Advice | eFinancialCareers

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:15:51 +0000

[...] Aaron Brown, chief risk officer at hedge fund AQR Capital Management, which is based in Greenwich, CT, and the man who has been called “The Dean of Wall Street Risk Managers” says getting an MBA is not that important when it comes to getting a job in risk management. In an interview with blogger and Trader Michael Martin, Brown says: “The more quantitative financial degrees are primarily offered by people who are already very good at quantitative things, and want to apply it to finance. That can be kind of dangerous. I feel that I would rather have somebody who knew something about taking risk, who had a feel for finance and money and was willing to learn a little math to do it than someone who is really, really great at math but you had to explain what money was and what taking a bet was and how it felt doing it with money and so on.” [...]

Comment on Wisdom of Wayne Gretzky: How He Learned To Skate Where the Puck Was Going by Manuelbravochico

Manuelbravochico — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:10:00 +0000

I have a colleague who draws his charts by hand every night. With all the charting software today, I wouldn’t be surprised if charting by hand gives one a unique perspective simply because nobody does it anymore.

Great post.

Comment on About by The head of risk at AQR on the qualifications that will help ... | Job news & advice | eFinancialCareers

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:12:09 +0000

[...] that will help you get a job by Sarah Butcher 5 minutes ago 0 comments Trader and blogger Michael Martin has been talking to Aaron Brown, chief risk officer at hedge fund AQR Capital Management and the [...]

Comment on Aaron Brown Interview: Red Blooded Risk by The head of risk at AQR on the qualifications that will help ... | Job news & advice | eFinancialCareers

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:07:07 +0000

[...] by Sarah Butcher Moments ago 0 comments Trader and blogger Michael Martin has been talking to Aaron Brown, chief risk officer at hedge fund AQR Capital Management and the man whom Nassim Taleb apparently [...]

Comment on Aaron Brown Interview: Red Blooded Risk by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:45:00 +0000

All the math in the world won’t help a person if he has no humility.

Comment on Aaron Brown Interview: Red Blooded Risk by Adam

Adam — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:55:00 +0000

I’m certainly a continuous work in progress. But I wonder how that information would have been helpful to Lehman or even John Corzine.

Comment on Aaron Brown Interview: Red Blooded Risk by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:05:00 +0000

Traders are human first. Start with the emotion and go from there.