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Feedback | May 14th, 2009

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Michael, You’ve probably already seen this article (PDF), but if you’ve not, attached you will please find the article and accompanying table listing the top 100 performing hedge funds for the past 3 years. On this list you’ll find Man Investments, Winton Capital, Abraham Trading, Eckhardt Trading and Chesapeake Capital, among others, you profile in your works. Just all the more proof-in-concept for you. In general, thank you for your work and devotion to the trading process – you have helped many people, including me, see things in the market they have never seen before. Keep up the efforts and please feel free to reach out if I can ever be of service.

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BARCLAYS CAPITAL
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18th Floor, New York, NY 10019

Note: No vulgarity or ugly attacks. There are other places for that.

  • Darran

    I’m only getting the second page when I click on the link, page 1 is blank, anyone else seeing this?

  • Michael Covel

    I just downloaded fresh and did not see any problem.

  • jad tawil

    It is a great list, but I really don’t understand how they compile it. For example Quest Partners LLC, a hedge fund in NY (managed futures) beats many names on this list (including Winton and Man) yet they get no mention. And its not that Quest is not doing any marketing. They are breaking their back trying to get their name out there. I even sent Michael all their marketing material. Their Original last year was up more than 50%, and they have compounded around 18% for the last 9 years! I really would love to know how Barclays compiles this list.
    Anyways great work Michael on enlightening people on the fallacy of the buy and hold strategy.

  • jad tawil

    Just to give you the exact numbers: Quest Partners LLC, based in NY, Original program up 55.9% in 2008, and 17.8% compounded since 1999 to end 2008. No mention whatsoever on the Barclays list.

  • Andrew

    They also did not include centaures advisors in houston run by john arnold who made the top 5 hedge fund managers last year and the previous year. Which probably means his firm was up over 150% percent as usual for him. Something is amiss.


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