George Soros is a Hungarian financier who was born in 1930 in the capital city of Budapest and later fled to avoid the Nazi's, after studying at the London School of Economics and then moved to America and has become one of most famous traders of all times..
Soros maqnages a highly successful fund management company and also runs the Quantum Investment Group. He became a household name when in 1992, when the Bank of England was forced to withdraw sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and devalue the currency; at the time he was nicknamed ・the man who broke the Bank of England. George Soros in this time period, traded an around $10 billion worth of the currency and made profits of around $1.1 billion. When the Asian crash occured, the Malaysian Parliament accused George Soros, of bringing down the country's currency. Of course he isn't always right and has had some huge losses as well and it's estimated he lost $2 billion, when trading Russian markets.
Philosophy of Trading
Some of his most interesting writings are on the belief, that traders sometimes do so on their own biases and therefore, change the market itself. He says that in this way trading can rather than promoting stability in the market, actually destabilize it and the view that a market will stabilize itself on its own, is often not always the case.
George Soros is a short-term trader and has a very aggressive style of trading. He makes massive, highly leveraged trades and his trading style is based on Global Macro strategy, a philosophy based on making massive, one-way bets on the movement of a financial investment. The bet is a simple one, based around whether the value of the investment traded will either rise or fall.
His strategy is based on reflexivity which rejects the idea that all information is known, to all market participants and thereby discounted in the price. Soros takes the view that market participants themselves, directly influence market fundamentals (as we looked at earlier) and its their irrational behaviour which lead to booms and busts that present him with investment opportunities.
George Soros Quotes
"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes"
"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected."
"Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception."
"The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market."
"The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside".
Books - The Alchemy of Finance
If you want to know more about the trading techniques and strategies George Soros used to make billions, you should read the above book.
・George Soros is unquestionably the most powerful and profitable investor in the world today. Dubbed by BusinessWeek as "The Man Who Moves Markets," Soros once made a billion dollars by betting that the British pound would be devalued. Soros is not merely a man of finance, but a thinker to reckon with as well. In The Alchemy of Finance, this extraordinary man reveals the investment strategies that have made him "a superstar among money managers"(The New York Times)
This book is not an easy read and doesn't give you a specific strategy you can use but it take you into the mind of one of the most successful traders of all time. You get to learn his philosophy of trading and life and for that reason, this book should be read by any serious trader.
One of the World's Best Traders?
Trading like George Soros is pure aggression and while it can yield huge profits he downside of betting big and winning big is of course, betting big and losing big. Over the course of more than three decades, he has made the right moves on numerous occasions, generating Billions of Dollars in profit and a huge number of fans among traders who hold him in awe on the other hand, a huge number of critics amongst those on the losing end of his trades. The fact is George Soros is one of the most famous and one of the most successful traders of all time and in the business of finance, you are judged on profits alone and few have made better gains than him.
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