When reading Aristides Capital September 4 letter to investors, sent to sometimes ignored email boxes over the Labor Day news dump weekend, the mindset of a hedge fund during a dark period comes to life. Christopher Brown, Aristides Capital managing member, uses the letter to remind investors that all funds have periods of negative returns. It’s not how the fund manager performs during positive market environments that matters most, but how they manage during negative times that matters – although in this case the hedge fund had a really good August. One theory on hedge fund investment management is to…
Aristides Capital Has Strong August On Elon Musk Short
Mark Melin
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.