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Is Now Time To Invest in Einhorn On A Drawdown?

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Mark Melin
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All great traders, even the likes of Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn, experience negative periods of performance. One of the only fund manager to operate seamlessly during all market environments was Bernie Madoff, which is to say that hedge fund investors should anticipate loss at some point. The question becomes: should one invest in a fund after they have experienced significant losses?

Investing in a solid hedge fund after a drawdown is a concept that has been debated pro and con, particularly among some in the algorithmic trading community. Among this group the concept of mean reversion is a method that not only applies to traders, but also to hedge fund investors....

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.