I wanted to change everything and have it all be better. I was sitting in the waiting area of Stevie Cohen’s office (the biggest hedge fund billionaire out there) and I knew that within a few minutes my life would change. Every now and then you have those moments when its up to one person to turn your life upside down and make it better. Sometimes they don’t even realize how much power they have in their hands. Sheila Nevins, the executive producer of all of HBO’s TV shows about prostitutes (and the head of their Family Programming division) once had that power over me. She would look at a 45 minute video and could decide “Yes” or “No” and my whole life could change.

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That was in 1998. She said, “No”. So now I’m in 2004, and I had been trading about $27 million allocated to me from various hedge funds and investors. But its hard to build a business so I wanted to switch to trading for Stevie Cohen’s SAC Capital, the biggest hedge fund in the world. Stevie Cohen was the best investor in the world and people working for him could make 10s of millions of dollars a year or more. At first I emailed him. I didn’t have his email address so I tried various combinations of stevecohen@sac.com, steve@sac.com, cohen@sac.com, etc.

I sent about 30 emails to 30 different combinations of the above. The next month I did it again. Finally, after a year of doing this, there was a response: “Whats your IM”.

So Stevie Cohen, the best investor in the world, with $3bb of his own money in SAC Capital, and I started to IM with each other. I explained my approach and he wanted to meet. So a few weeks later a car service took me to Stamford, CT. I’m not allowed to drive. Particularly in Connecticut. But that’s another story. I waited for about a half hour.

It was near the close of the trading day so I assumed he was busy. People were walking in and out of the building. They were all wearing these fleece jackets that said SAC Capital on them. They were like a big family. They all loved each other. I could tell.

I wanted to be part of the family also. So I could love them and they could love me. We would joke around at lunchtime. Maybe we would make fun of Cohen and all laugh but all nervously looking around to make sure he wasn’t there. Slowly we would get to know each other and, when they were comfortable with me, maybe they would invite me over to dinner to meet their family. “This is that new guy I was telling you about.

Thank God Stevie Cohen hired him!” Finally, someone came to get me, “He’s ready for you now.” She brought me to another person who wasn’t Stevie Cohen. And then this person took me to Stevie Cohen’s office. His office was the size of a small football stadium. I had always heard he sat out in the center of the trading floor with his traders but this was his private office. If he were Dr.

Strange from Marvel Comics this would be known as his Sanctum Sanctorum. He was sitting on the couch. “So this is the famous street.com columnist!” he said. I sat down across from him. “Why do you want to start trading for me?” he asked. “Its hard to trade, raise money, manage a business,” I said.

“I think the economics work a lot better if I’m managing money for you.” “You’re absolutely right,” he said. We went over my strategy.

I gave him a copy of my book, “Trade Like a Hedge Fund” that just came out. My basic strategy that I traded was similar: look for patterns in the market that have worked over the past 5, 10, even 50 years. If those patterns occur again, then trade them. “I like this approach,” he said, and he took my book from me, “I like to look at market history.” He got up. The meeting was over after about ten minutes of talking.

One thing he told me as he got up was that this was his worst trading day in about six months. But he didn’t seem bothered.

Or at least I couldn’t tell. Which is very different from how I react when I have my worst trading day in six months. When I have my worst trading day in six months, everyone around me can tell. They can smell it on me. Thats what separates the greatest trader ever from a trader like me. We started to walk together out the door, down the hallway. “Lets do this,” he said, “ why don’t you instant message me before you do a trade for the next few weeks.

We’ll see how it goes in real time. Delta 1010 Drivers Linux there. ” We both walked out together. I was embarrassed just in case he would see the dirty white cadillac that the car service had delivered me in. He stepped into his shiny new car and waved goodbye. I was sort of hoping he would invite me over for dinner. Maybe he could show me his art collection.

(Cohen paid $110mm for Jasper John's 'Flag') I forget what kind of car it was. Lets just say it was a BMW. I was surprised nobody talked to him at all as we were leaving even though we passed quite a few people in the hallway.

At SAC Capital, everyone communicates psychically. There’s no need for actual “hellos” and “goodbyes”. I assume there’s a lot of hugging there also, but that they didn’t do it in front of strangers like me. Potty Racers 3 New Space Missions Hacked Game.

But I kind of wanted Stevie Cohen to hug me before he got into his car. “Its going to be ok,” he would say to me. But that didn’t happen. The next day, right around 9:29 am before I was going to make my first trade of the day I instant messaged him the trade. He wrote back, “Thanks”. I’m not exaggerating: about 50 trades in a row had worked out for me at that point.

It was June, 2004 and I hadn’t had a down month since July, 2003. Not even a down week. Until that trade. And the next seven trades after it. I was totally disheartened.

It was like being impotent and telling the girl, “this has never happened to me before.” Stevie Cohen was THAT GIRL. “Don’t worry”, Cohen IM-ed me. We can try again in an hour.” Actually, he didn’t IM that.

“Don’t worry. This happens.” But at some point I just stopped sending him trades. And a few days later he IMed, “where are you???” but I didn’t respond to that. I was ashamed. My takeaways: A) Go for it. If you want to work for someone. Email them today.

B) Be persistent. Make you have something to say: but say it every month. Until they respond. At some point if you deliver enough value, they will respond. I knew everything about Cohen before my meeting with him.

I had planned, prepared, researched everything I could so that I could leave that meeting with my goal intact: a followup D) The One Person Rule. Never have your happiness dependent on a yes or no decision from one person.

At the very least: diversify the people who are important enough to do that. When you have a bad day, the professionals just roll with it and keep the same emotional demeanor as the good days. F) Stay in the game: This I didn’t do. I should’ve kept IMing trades. I should’ve somehow stayed in the game. I let shame get the better of me. Recently I wrote to Cohen again.

He was having problems in the media. His ex-wife was all over the place. I told him his media wasn’t being handled correctly. I told him he should write a book about his life. It would be a fascinating read and set the story straight.

I told him I would help him write it. I pictured us high-fiving and laughing over a glass of wine in front of some of the famous Picassos he owns. His wife is of hispanic origin. He responded and we wrote back and forth for awhile. I won’t respond with what he said due to his privacy issues. But finally he said, “I don’t think anyone would be interested in reading a book about me.” Then I made a big mistake.

I wrote back, “it would be the second best-selling business biography ever: after Warren Buffett’s biography.” Never, NEVER, imply that one billionaire might be a bigger sell than another billionaire. He never wrote back. Related Posts.

Steve Cohen’s portfolio managers have pleaded guilty to insider trading: are just a few Hedge Fund managers, exposed in 2011 for doing insider trading: Street is rife with criminals, corruption, insider trading, stock manipulation, front running and quid pro quo.Goldman Sachs board of director got charged with insider trading with his hedge fund manager. JPMorgan just paid $154 million for settling SEC fraud charges., last year, the SEC charged Goldman Sachs for pumping and dumping CDS.Can you imagine how many frauds would be exposed if the SEC was competent instead of watching porn? When the police catch 10 drivers for speeding, does that mean that only 10 drivers were speeding?Then there is Washington.

It’s illegal for you or I to trade with insider information. However, Congress representatives and Senators can trade with their information (on legislation, regulations, etc.) before they release it to the public. Can you imagine if you can front run (buy a stock before) the government step in to buy a few hundred million dollars worth? Average household underperforms the market by 1.5% on average.Honest hedge fund managers can barely keep up with the market.Congress representatives beat the market by 6% on average.Senators beat the market by 12.3% on average. The Oscar winning documentary “Inside Job” and CNBC’s documentary “House of Cards”, which explain how Wall Street and Washington are criminal and corrupt. Go to these links to read more: •. This website screwed up my above comment.

It deleted a few sentences and took out most of the line breaks. I’ll try it again here: Steve Cohen’s portfolio managers have pleaded guilty to insider trading: are just a few Hedge Fund managers, exposed in 2011 for doing insider trading: Street is rife with criminals, corruption, insider trading, stock manipulation, front running and quid pro quo.Goldman Sachs board of director got charged with insider trading with his hedge fund manager. JPMorgan just paid $154 million for settling SEC fraud charges., last year, the SEC charged Goldman Sachs for pumping and dumping CDS.Can you imagine how many frauds would be exposed if the SEC was competent instead of watching porn? When the police catch 10 drivers for speeding, does that mean that only 10 drivers were speeding?Then there is Washington. It’s illegal for you or I to trade with insider information.

However, Congress representatives and Senators can trade with their information (on legislation, regulations, etc.) before they release it to the public. Can you imagine if you can front run (buy a stock before) the government step in to buy a few hundred million dollars worth? Average household underperforms the market by 1.5% on average.Honest hedge fund managers can barely keep up with the market.Congress representatives beat the market by 6% on average.Senators beat the market by 12.3% on average. The Oscar winning documentary “Inside Job” and CNBC’s documentary “House of Cards”, which explain how Wall Street and Washington are criminal and corrupt. Go to these links to read more: •.

I think your article is worthwhile and your points well-taken. This despite the fact that Stevie Cohen may be a criminal. I would also suggest to you that stock ‘trading’ is a pretty socially worthless activity.

Trading stocks to help a billionaire get even richer, wow, that’s just parasitic. Talk about a reverse Robin Hood. Investing, now that’s a different matter. And again, the article is worthwhile and I see you having a lot of great insights in your other articles but this article makes it appear that you continue to chase the false god of mammon. Perhaps I’ve misinterpreted, perhaps you’ve grown.

I’m making this criticism as a fan who would like to see you reach your full potential: enlightenment. And if you get there I’m hoping you can lead others there, including myself. Have a great day, James. I need a drivers license, but I cant really speak for anyone else. I live 10 miles outside of town, own rental homes that I need to work on from time to time and use the truck/trailer to move materials. Take kids to the ballpark, swimming lessons, taking the family out on road trips every other weekend, driving to work, something to transport large amounts of groceries for the month, visiting my grandfather ect. We dont have taxis where I live so a drivers license is essential. Im sure plenty get along just fine in the city without them tho.

Plus, I like driving whenever and wherever I want. “I’m not exaggerating: about 50 trades in a row had worked out for me at that point. It was June, 2004 and I hadn’t had a down month since July, 2003. Not even a down week. Until that trade. And the next seven trades after it.” This exact thing has happened to me enough that I began to wonder if I was being told something. Maybe the message was you were supposed to build your own business and that if you trusted in yourself enough you would become a Stevie.

By the way, I read your book. Very good job.

If you do nothing else in life, and lose everything, you need to remember with that book, and other things you’ve written, you have given back and done some good for mankind. And sometimes that’s all we are supposed to receive.

I kind of hated this. Why did you build him up so much in your mind? Not having a down week for 11 straight months is pretty friggin awesome and you should have been proud and cock-sure, and learned the calm cool demeanor that it seems like you most certainly were trying to find. I would say the take-away is: “don’t worry”. Just don’t do it! Hearing your story reminds me of how I always scare off the beautiful girl because I’m so afraid to look at her and be natural around her. I put her on a pedestal.

Then of course, I naturally attract the lesser women whom I have little regard for. It’s a catch-22 of immense evil.