The Greatest Trades of All Time: Top Traders Making Big Profits from the Crash of 1929 to Today

Index

A

ABACUS, 77

abuse, effects of, 11–13

activist, 112–113

ADRs. See American depository receipts

advantage, technological, 120–121

AIG, 5

The Alchemy of Finance, 101

Allianz, 84–85, 91

Allied Capital, 105–107

Alt-A mortgages, 142

alternative investments, 92

Amaranth Advisors, 126

American depository receipts (ADRs), 137–138

Amherst College, 115

analysis, 40–43

fundamental, 48

analyst, securities, 117

Appaloosa Management, 135–136

Apple, 110

approach, methodical, 45

arbitrage, 120, 149

Ares Capital Corporation, 106

Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder, 84, 92

asymmetry, 82

attentiveness, 130

B

Bank of England, 98

bankruptcy, 28

Barney, Charles, 64

Bass, J. Kyle, 1–19

history, 1–2

investment thesis, 8–11

Bear Stearns & Co., 1, 133

Becton, Dickinson and Co., 110

Belden, Timothy, 24

The Big Short, 141

Black Wednesday, 99

Bollinger bands, 117

bonds, 149

bonuses, 138–139

Boston Consulting Group, 73

boundaries, 113

boy plunger, 62–63

break, taking, 122

Brent crude, 127

Brettschneider, Fred, 142

brokerage, 121

Brown, Joshua, 68

bucket shop, 62

Budapest, 87–88

The Burden of Consciousness, 91

Burry, Michael, 141–142

Butler, Irene Reynolds, 56

C

Callan, Erin, 109

capital, risking, 121–122

capitalism, free-market, 101

CareFusion Corporation, 110

Carnegie Mellon University, 135

CDO. See collateralized debt obligation, 105

CDS. See credit default swaps

CEEB. See College Entrance Examination Board

Centaurus Advisors, 124–125

Centaurus Energy, 124–125

CFTC. See Commodity Futures Trading Commission ...