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James Altucher

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James Altucher is president and founder of Stockpickr LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of TheStreet.com and part of its network of Web properties, and a managing partner at Formula Capital, an alternative asset management firm that runs a fund of hedge funds. He also is a weekly columnist for the Financial Times and the author of the books Trade Like a Hedge Fund, Trade Like Warren Buffett and SuperCa$h. Previously, Altucher was a managing partner at technology venture capital firm 212 Ventures and was CEO and founder of Vaultus and Reset Inc.


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Actually, I don't have anything to do with thestreet.com or Jim Cramer at this point so you might want to update.

Disclosure: I'm biased.

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Very Intelligent and Insightful

James Altucher's advice has made me money, period. He's very underrated, because he seems mostly a contrarian/value guy in a world of Fast Money types. He seems to know how to make a fast trade as well though. I have followed him into picks of DPS, PAL, MKL, TEG, TIE and they have all paid off eventualy.. If I had never heard of James Altucher, I would have never heard of Renaissance Technologies, Monish Pabrai, merger arbitrage, closed end fund arbitrage, NCAV stocks, etc either. His books are fast reads packed with tangible info.

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27 February 2010
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Blogwatch is great!

I check James Altucher's Daily Blogwatch daily! There is always at least one piece of useful information each day along with plenty of fun stuff.

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Great guy

Daily Blogwatch is a must read every morning! James outlines the best reads out on the net every morning making interesting reads easy to find. James' columns in the Financial Times are great. And of course, his service, stockpickr.com, recently sold to thestreet.com, is a wonderful service providing plenty of investing ideas. Keep up the great work James!

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23 January 2010
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Very Intelligent Analysis

James isn't just a hedge fund manager or best-selling author or hasn't written for FT, TheStreet.com, HuffPo and WSJ without reason. There are many reasons behind James' success and its basically because he's a master Chess player....always thinking several steps ahead which is huge in the investing arena. If you do the math far more of his stock picks have done well than haven't and as his friend, I've been encouraging him to start a blog to organize all his great work in one place so he can start to get the recognition he deserves.



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Talent wasted by pointless grandstanding

I don't get it , Altucher is a smart dude I can tell. I've seen his conversations with sykes. I've read some of his columns , I've read a little of one his books (got intrerrupted and forgot about it). All you have to do is look at his resume and you can see some impressive things.

I personally don't like the stockpickr game, but it was a trailblazer in the space. Mad props to that.

So why does debase himself to Cramer type grandiose statements when gets airtime? Does thestreet.com do that people? Or is it the ever subtle pressures from the financial successes of the infotainment networks vs the financial struggles of the hard news guys? I know Barry Ritholtz has said he become persona non grata at CNBC becasue he refuses to dumb down complex subjects. I guess Altucher has no similiar compunctions.

Unfortunately Altucher seems to have caught the clown-itus disease that affects most the business media. His variant seems to be of the Freakonomics "look at me I'm so clever by inverting your intuitions" type.

Which would be fine (great actually) if he backed it up with carefully constructed logical and empirical based arguments
But he doesn't, at least not on air.
He just throws out some generalities and trusimss followed by "relevant" tickers. And I've seen him in video appearances be extremely dismissive and flippant about contradictory information on positions where he has a high probability of being wrong. That isn't responsible or laudable behavior imo.
One must always be aware of potential weaknesses in a trading/investment thesis and allow for the possibility that one has erred. That's very very basic risk management.

I can only chalk this up to Altucher knowing the stock talk is becoming as informative/ objective as talk radio and him happily playing the part of an un-nuanced embellishing commentator. It's more important to be provocative than right in that world.

C'mon Altucher you know you are better than this.

Still the man is an idea factory and his blog at AOL is a lot less irritating than his media "persona" has sadly become
http://www.dailyfinance.com/writers/james-altucher/

I've got other places to get ideas where I feel I can trust the source more though.

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A Cramer padawan

A yes man to Mr. Cramer

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Condescending and idiotic

Altucher is a smart guy. His "Trade Like a Hedge Fund" book is not half bad as an introduction to empirically-based trading. But in his commentaries, Altucher either takes crazy positions just to attract controversy (without providing much evidence to back up his position) or comes up with some great macro story (such as 'aging baby boomers') and then touts a few stocks that fit with the story. Simply put, Altucher writes what will get him readers and not what is interesting or worthwhile. In that manner he is little better than Cramer or Dorfman or any other worthless pundit.

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