James Altucher

James Altucher

Stockpickr

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. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell and was a doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a nationally ranked chess master.

Sessions

9:30am Wednesday, 02/06/2008
Open Source Finance: A Contradiction in Terms?
Location: Starlight Roof
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), James Altucher (Stockpickr), Graham Miller (Marketcetera), Steve Bate (FOLIOfn)
Some think open source technologies are fundamentally at odds with the zero-sum world of capital markets. Can you make money sharing some of your intellectual property? Increasingly we are seeing investors share technologies, ideas, and, yes, find more profits. Read more.
2:00pm Thursday, 02/07/2008
A Conversation with John Seo
Location: Starlight Roof
John Seo (Fermat Capital Management, LLC), James Altucher (Stockpickr)
Market partcipants like to create new markets. People want to trade stocks? Options? Commodities? Art? No problem. But trading in all these things requires information, otherwise there is nothing to trade on. Case in point: Catastrophe bonds. Read more.
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