Paul Tudor Jones Trading Strategy: Maverick Trader (Video, Education, Quotes, Wife and Net Worth)
Paul Tudor Jones is a famous trader and hedge fund manager. Many negative things happened during the 1987 stock market crash, but one man became very popular and super-rich for his predictions and gains. He would go on to be known globally as Hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones II. He quickly rose to fame because he managed a 62 percent gain in October 1987, the same month as Black Monday. Furthermore, he is one of the few (if any other at all) that has managed triple-digit annual returns five years in a row!
In this article, we look at the early life and career of Paul Tudor Jones, and we look at some of his trading strategies and famous quotes.
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Paul Tudor Jones’ early life and career
Born on the 28th of September, 1954 in Memphis, Tennessee, Paul Tudor Jones is an American billionaire who got his career jumpstart at his dad’s small business paper — the Memphis Daily News — where he wrote under the pseudonym Paul Eagle in high school and college.
During his early years, he attended the Presbyterian Day School, an all-boys elementary school, where he graduated before attending Memphis University School for high school. His university education was at the University of Virginia, where he emerged the welterweight boxing champion. During this period, he held the position of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity president. Thanks to his writing job at his father’s business paper, he was able to pay his tuition throughout the university period until 1976, when he bagged a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Virginia.
After turning down his Harvard Business School Admission in the 1980s, Jones launched his hedge fund, Tudor Investment Corporation, an asset management firm headquartered i