Editor's Note: Ever wonder about the inception of Hedgeye? How it all started?
Our Founder & CEO Keith McCullough's memoir Diary Of A Hedge Fund Manager written in 2009 chronicles the life and insights McCullough learned on his way "from the top, to the bottom, and back again." Below is a free excerpt.
AN EXCERPT
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One of the things I missed most about being in the hedge fund game was my getting to engage in the process. I hated getting up so damn early, trust me. But I enjoyed cramming my notebook and my head (if I wrote something down, it became committed to memory) with informational points of reference, price points, levels, headlines, global macro observations, you name it, and then connecting the dots. One of the reasons I started blogging was to go through the exercise of connecting dots, making calls and proving myself, not just passing the time. I’d look at my son, small enough to fit into a golf club sock, and think to myself, one day he’ll be old enough to know what happened to me on Wall Street. I wanted to show him my side of it. To me it felt like I had been booted from the team for giving away the puck in my own zone when I reality I was playing the best game of my life. So I got up, made coffee, slurped down my oatmeal, and began my process, except there would be no veil, wall or bunker of secrecy. I was gong to do my thing out in the open, my new normal. I called my website MCM Macro (for McCullough Capital Management) and cranked out content every morning, usually posting around 5:30 A.M. I didn’t take to the internet trying to be the next big thing in financial blogging. I didn’t envision myself as a challenger to The Big Picture or Seeking Alpha, two of the most popular finance blogs; nor did I have an axe to grind (okay, maybe a hatchet); rather, I mainly wanted to let a little sunlight in, and speak out some against the levered long bulls on Wall Street who were perpetuating self-fulfilling agendas. |
