Profiting from Hedge Funds: Winning Strategies for the Little Guy

Acknowledgments

Let me begin by acknowledging the Almighty for the blessings and wonderful provisions showered upon me throughout my life. My career progression to wealth management has been no exception, for it has been a wonderful ride.

Words fail to express the tremendous gratitude I owe Nick Wallwork at John Wiley, one of the most experienced English language finance/business publishers in the world. My articles at Seeking Alpha, a premier website for actionable stock market opinion, analysis, and discussion caught Nick’s attention and he sowed the seeds for this book of strategies individual investors can implement to create alpha on their own. His insight and vision deserves credit for this maiden effort. On a related note, I salute Seeking Alpha for developing an ecosystem for investment researchers to network and develop ideas.

I have also drawn inspiration from several individuals who successfully migrated from other fields into investment management. Among them are Dr. Michael Burry, founder of Scion Capital, LLC hedge fund; Asif Suria, founder of Insider Trade Reports; Mazin Jadallah, founder of AlphaClone LLC; James Altucher, managing director of Formula Capital Hedge Fund; Mohnish Pabrai, founder of Pabrai Investment Fund; Francis Chou, president of Chou Associates Management, Inc.; and several contributors at Seeking Alpha. Their intrepid sense of going all out in fulfilling their passion immensely helped my own transformation.

I extend my sincere thanks to the hedge ...