Blog Category: optimism

Harrison Ford was a carpenter before he was the biggest star in the universe. George Lucas needed carpentry work on a door in the studio. Harrison Ford knew Fred Roos who was working for Lucas. Ford had briefly known Lucas because he played a small role in the movie, “American Graffiti” (remember that pre-Star Wars […]

I traded for Victor Niederhoffer for about a year starting in 2003. I was up slightly more than 100% for him, primarily trading futures using a quantitative approach. During that period I had one down month: June 2003. Victor was a top trader for George Soros before starting his own fund in the ’90s and […]