Short description Hedge funds and hedge fund trading strategies have long been popular among the financial community because of their flexibility, aggressiveness, and creativity toward the markets. Trade Like a Hedge Fundcapitalizes on the phenomenon by bringing fresh and practical ideas to the trading table. This book shares twenty uncorrelated trading strategies and techniques that will enable readers to trade or invest like never before. With detailed examples and up-to-the-minute trading advice, Trade Like a Hedge Fundis a unique book that can help readers increase the value of their portfolios, while decreasing risk.
From the contents Introduction.
TECHNIQUE 1: The Bread and Butter Trade--Playing Gaps.
TECHNIQUE 2: How to Play the QQ Q-SPY Spread Using Unilateral Pairs Trading.
TECHNIQUE 3: Buying Bankruptcies.
TECHNIQUE 4: Using the TICK.
TECHNIQUE 5: Playing the Bands.
TECHNIQUE 6: Stocks Less Than $5.
TECHNIQUE 7: The Slow Turtle.
TECHNIQUE 8: The QQQ Crash System.
TECHNIQUE 9: The Relative Fed Model (and Other Fun Things You Can Do with Yields).
TECHNIQUE 10: Deletions from the Indexes.
TECHNIQUE 11: Everything You Wanted to Know About the 200-Day Moving Average but Were Afraid to Ask.
TECHNIQUE 12: End of Quarter, End of Month, Outside Month.
TECHNIQUE 13: Ten Percent Down--Panic 101.
TECHNIQUE 14: Taking Advantage of Option Expiration Day.
TECHNIQUE 15: Extreme Convertible Arbitrage.
TECHNIQUE 16: Intraday Bollinger Bands.
TECHNIQUE 17: All Good Things Come in Fours ("4" Is a Magic Number).