Comments on: How to run a hedge fund from your dorm room

By: will fan

will fan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:52:21 +0000

dang… I was actually looking for some college courses I should take for fund management when I came across this. I plan on trading the forex and several cyclical stocks when I hit freshman year as well. I’m more of a long term trader so that’ll lighten my workload. Kudos brian, I hope to talk about options sometime!

I use the same TOS platform as in the picture, but I’m going to switch soon since I’d like 5:00 candles to match bank charts. I don’t see any real use of indicators so I’m assuming he’s a price action trader. You know, after the first bear rally I think a bearish gartley formed. Plus it’s under the open and following the direction of the trend. Selling after the completion of the pattern would have been at least a 90% probability trade.

It’s just nice to know there are kids out there as interested as I am :)

By: Kenny Powers

Kenny Powers — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:56:59 +0000

Yo this dude should take some time out of his busy schedule to hit the treadmill…also if he is so smart why didn’t he go to Harvard?

By: Crimson

Crimson — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:06:07 +0000

Anyone know the rig Mr. Levin has set up? I too am a trader (certainly not on Mr. Levin’s level) but look to move away from the desktop as I enter college. Have been looking for viable laptop options.

By: Web Designer

Web Designer — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:50:02 +0000

The incorrect spelling was as a result of his web designer, an employee of my firm.

By: lolol

lolol — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:10:06 +0000

he spelled quantitative wrong on his website lolol

By: bink

bink — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:02:08 +0000

I agree this kid is absolutely impressive and there is no doubt that Levin can get rid of any reservations that some have about his abilities early on in ‘09. The article is great, but in many ways it does not entirely do justice to Levin, but we will be reading a lot more about him in the future.

PS- I am a large wombat supporter

By: Wade

Wade — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:51:31 +0000

So…what were his returns this year??

By: Darrin

Darrin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:11:44 +0000

In a year where conventional wisdom went wrong (leveraged investments in illiquid securities and explosive counter-party risk sunk the biggest funds), smaller nimbler contrarian investments did well. For example short biased long-short and commodities trading strategies if timed correctly did well. Not sure if this is what Levin was involved in but congrats for having positive returns if that’s the case. The average fund was down >20% this year.

By: Wombat

Wombat — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:40:48 +0000

I saw this guy in the Tribune article. It’s hard to not admire talent and ability, especially at 18-19 years old. I don’t see what the confusion is about this being his best year yet; lehman brothers and bear stearns have sunk and this guy posted record profits. Don’t be a hater, be impressed.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:59:38 +0000

ps if it said this was his best year, idk whether to think thats a good thing or a very very bad thing…