Provides lessons regarding hedge funds and the investment world they inhabit. This book offers a glimpse behind the scenes at the personalities and egos making decisions about the enormous sums being dumped en masse into these funds. It discusses investing in general and tells how to find and profit from the best moneymaking opportunities.

Introduction. Chapter One. The Triangle Investment Club Dinner: Hacking Through the Hedgehog Jungle. Chapter Two. The New Hedgehogs May Have Been Golden Boys, but They Still Bleed Red. Chapter Three. Short Selling Oil: The Crude Joke Was on Us. Chapter Four. Short Selling is Not for Sissies. Chapter Five. The Odyssey of Starting a Hedge Fund: A Desperate, Frantic Adventure. Chapter Six. The Roadshow Grind: Blood, Swat, Toil, and Tears. Chapter Seven. The Run-Up and Haunted by Remembrances and Doubt. Chapter Eight. Hedgehogs Come in All Sizes and Shapes. Chapter Nine. The Violence of Secular Market Cycles. Chapter Ten. The Battle for Investment Survival: Only Egotists or Fools Try to Pick Tops and Bottoms. Chapter Eleven. From One Generation to Another: Bismarck and the Yale Endowment. Chapter Twelve. Nature''s Mysticism and Groupthink Stinks. Chapter Thirteen. The Internet Bubble: I''d Still Rather Have Air-Conditioning. Chapter Fourteen. Great Investment Managers Are Intense, Disciplined Maniacs. Chapter Fifteen. You''re Only as beloved as Your Most Recent Performance. Chapter Sixteen. Once You Have a Fortune, How can You Hang on to It? Chapter Seventeen. Three Investment Religions: Growth, Value, and Agnostic. Chapter Eighteen. The Trouble with Being Big. Chapter Nineteen. Bubbles and True Believer. Chapter Twenty. Divine Intervention or Inside Information? A Tale That Will Make Your Blood Run Cold. Chapter Twenty-One. John Maynard Keynes: Economist, Hedge-Fund manager, and Fascinating Character. Conclusion. Recommended Reading.