Below is a chart and brief excerpt from today's Early Look written by Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough. 

I first learned how to trade for hedge funds in the summer of 1998. My first boss was… drumroll… a hockey player. His name is Tiger Williams. He’s was a visionary creating the 1st outsourced hedge fund trading platform for… drumroll… Tiger Cubs.

Did I have any idea what I was doing back then? Obviously not. I’m forever grateful to Tiger for giving me that opportunity. Not everyone in this business is lucky to have mentors like I did. Jon Dawson from Dawson Samberg was another big one. 

I learned how to trade, analyze (and short) companies, and do Macro in that order. Dawson and his team taught me how to pick and trade stocks. I had no idea how to do macro back then either. 

For me at least, having no idea on how things are supposed to be done was a good thing. 

Unlike many of the Linear-Econs and market Strategists that I no longer waste precious Cycle Time reading, I learned my #process by doing it. I think that’s why it works. I don’t do what I used to get paid to do. That doesn’t work anymore. 

I’m not going to write about what isn’t working. I don’t want to offend anyone. I just want to help you get better. 

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