Daily Speculations & Bo Keely
Posted on February 13th, 2008 at 5:18 pm by necco

 I’ve been wanting to share this blog with you all for a while.  I’ve been reading it for the past four months or so and have found it to be continually interesting.  It’s a blog run by Victor Niederhoffer, a semi-famous Wall Street trader who was written up in the New Yorker recently (which is how I found out about him).  Wikipedia says this about him:

Victor Niederhoffer, a well known hedge fund manager, champion squash player and statistician, studied statistics and economics at Harvard University (B.A. 1964) and the University of Chicago(Ph.D. 1969). He was a finance professor at the University of California, Berkeley (19671972).

He’s lost all his money (and his clients’ money) two times, but has recovered both times.  People aren’t sure what to think about him.  His blog primarily offers insights into how any natural phenomenom relates to the market, but you’ll find just about anything there.

http://www.dailyspeculations.com/

One of his best friends is this guy named Bo Keely who has had a life so incredible that he almost seems mythical to me.  Although of the pedigree, he lives his life as the antithesis of a Wall Street trader (literally in a hole in the desert).  Check out one of his posts on his life and his blog:

http://www.dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/?p=2445

http://www.dailyspeculations.com/keeley/hobo_index.html