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#010: BUILDING A HEDGE FUND #4: THE BIG PICTURE

If you want to aim for big results, you need to start seeing The Big Picture. Otherwise, you’ll never evolve from 2000USD, which was my initial trading capital, into a big multi-million hedge fund. I understood this in Singapore that afternoon and since then, I’ve followed this rule even more than before. What does “seeing The Big Picture” mean? I’ll try to explain it in a simple way: imagine trading as a battle (as a matter of fact, it really is a battle) and the market as a

#007: BUILDING A HEDGE FUND #3: IMM (INTELLIGENT MONEY MANAGER)

At the end of the year 2013, long before I decided to create a hedge fund, I made a list of tasks for the year 2014. I’ve decided to improve and make my trading more effective during next year. You shouldn’t forget I’m just a trader like most of you - a decade ago I was just an inexperienced trader with a 2.000USD trading account - and the only reason why I’m still trading is because I constantly innovate and improve my trading. Similar lists of tasks are therefore an essenti

#005: BUILDING A HEDGE FUND #2: THE BIG IDEA

Let’s make it clear: if you want to succeed in today’s world and achieve your goals, you need to come up with an idea. We live in an era of new ideas and innovation. It is not only big conglomerates or multinational companies who can make billions of dollars. History is being overwritten. Today’s billionaires aren’t large companies’ CEOs, but individuals with brilliant ideas. They are inconspicuous and you wouldn’t recognize them in a crowd. They don’t wear trendy clothes or

#002: BUILDING A HEDGE FUND #1: FROM $2.000 TO A PRIVATE HEDGE FUND

An interesting thing happened to me in February 2014. I was just sitting on the roof of famous Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore - the one with the big rooftop pool. I observed this modern, breath-taking city from above and thought about the limitlessness of human creativity and human possibilities. Building something amazing like that needs not only financial means but also courage, diligence, perseverance, and vision. I was on a 100-day cruise around the world and we stop

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