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Upside Trader Joe: Hey, Tim, how are you? A pleasure.
TraderInterviews.com: Good, thanks. So the first question I usually ask is where did you come from? How did you get into trading in the first place?
Upside Trader Joe: Well, I've been in the market, I guess, about 25 years. I'm about 45. Back in the early 80s, I was a retail broker for I guess about 14 years at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and I handled about 113 people there. I did that for a while and then I moved into running a capital mortgage group for a small boutique investment banking firm for about four years and it that period of time, I realized that starting a hedge fund, to make the long story short, would be something that I wanted to pursue. So, around 1999, I started a hedge fund with two partners, two good friends of mine for...
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