Trade Like a Hedge Fund

JAMES ALTUCHER is a partner at Subway Capital, a hedge fund focused on special arbitrage situations and short-term statistically based strategies. He writes for TheStreet.com, Street Insight, and StreetView, and has been a guest on the television show Kudlow & Cramer. Previously, he was a partner with the technology venture capital firm 212 Ventures and was CEO and founder of Vaultus, a wireless and software company. He holds a BA in computer science from Cornell and attended graduate school for computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.

"Trade Like a Hedge Fund is to investing what Julia Child's The Art of French Cooking is to cuisine."—Donald Luskin, SmartMoney.com, March 2004 "Should you have this in your library? Most definitely, it... maps out exactly how to turn theory into profits."—Gary B. Smith, TheStreet.com

• Introduction. TECHNIQUE 1: The Bread and Butter Trade—Playing Gaps.TECHNIQUE 2: How to Play the QQ Q-SPY Spread Using Unilateral Pairs Trading.TECHNIQUE 3: Buying Bankruptcies.TECHNIQUE 4: Using the TICK.TECHNIQUE 5: Playing the Bands.TECHNIQUE 6: Stocks Less Than $5.TECHNIQUE 7: The Slow Turtle.TECHNIQUE 8: The QQQ Crash System.TECHNIQUE 9: The Relative Fed Model (and Other Fun Things You Can Do with Yields).TECHNIQUE 10: Deletions from the Indexes.TECHNIQUE 11: Everything You Wanted to Know About the 200-Day Moving Average but Were Afraid to Ask.TECHNIQUE 12: End of Quarter, End of Month, Outside Month.TECHNIQUE 13: Ten Percent Down—Panic 101.TECHNIQUE 14: Taking Advantage of Option Expiration Day.TECHNIQUE 15: Extreme Convertible Arbitrage.TECHNIQUE 16: Intraday Bollinger Bands.TECHNIQUE 17: All Good Things Come in Fours (“4” Is a Magic Number).TECHNIQUE 18: The Wednesday Reversal.TECHNIQUE 19: What Does Not Work?TECHNIQUE 20: Reading List.Index.