Victor Sperandeo

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Victor Sperandeo —  also known as Trader Vic —  is generally considered[weasel words] an expert[citation needed] on commodities (particularly in the Energy and Metals sectors), where he has earned a reputation[citation needed] for profitably trading in declining markets. Mr. Sperandeo has invested through approximately seven bull and seven bear market cycles, and has over 40 years experience in the stock, bond, futures, commodities, and currency markets. He has traded independently for, among others, George Soros, Leon Cooperman and BT Alex Brown. His market crash prediction during the September 1987 Barron’s interview earned him widespread recognition[weasel words] of his understanding of the financial markets.

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[edit] Career

Trader Vic on Commodities: What’s Unknown, Misunderstood, and Too Good To Be True
Trader Vic – Methods of a Wall Street Master
Trader Vic II : Principles of Professional Speculation

Mr. Sperandeo is President and CEO of Alpha Financial Technologies, LLC (AFT), and President of Enhanced Alpha Management, LP (EAM).

He created the Diversified Trends Indicator™, a rules-based, investable trading methodology incorporating a diversified group of highly liquid, exchange-traded commodity and financial futures contracts, reflecting market expectations of near-term and future price movements. DTI-based products include:

  • DTI® (Diversified Trends Indicator™), a long and short indicator (non-benchmark index) with 24 components, 50% each of commodity and financial futures
  • CTI® (Commodity Trends Indicator™), a long/short Commodity-only indicator
  • FTI™ (Financial Trends Indicator™), a long/short Financials-only indicator.

Mr. Sperandeo holds three patents in the U.S., two in the Bahamas, and one in Australia on financial products using long/short algorithmic indicators or indices in conjunction with leverage, which aim to add alpha while simultaneously reducing risk.

Almost $3.4 billion is invested in products linked to Mr. Sperandeo's indexes and indicators. He employs his strategies for entities such as the global investment banks HSBC, Nikko, Nomura, and RBS/ABN AMRO among others. Licensees of AFT’s products include the fund management companies Rydex and Direxion, as well as global investment banks including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Nomura and Nikko. In addition, Mr. Sperandeo recently created the Trader Vic Index, an annotative product that is licensed to ABN AMRO Bank N.V., an undertaking of the Royal Bank of Scotland.

[edit] Notoriety

Mr. Sperandeo was a 2008 Inductee into the Trader Hall of Fame by Trader Magazine, and named “The Ultimate Wall Street Pro” by Barron’s.

He has made numerous appearances on financial programs on CNBC, CNN, and other networks, offering his insights and expertise — particularly on commodities — to the viewing public. Mr. Sperandeo has been profiled twice in Barron’s — “Man of all Markets”, on May 2, 1983, and “Trader Vic the Ultimate Wall Street Pro”, on September 21, 1987. His philosophies and methodologies have also been featured at length in the books Super Traders, and New Market Wizards.

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[edit] Further reading

Schwager, Jack D. (1995). The New Market Wizards. 16 pages: Wiley; New Ed edition. ISBN 0-471-13236-5. 

Rubenfeld, Alan (1992). Super Traders. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 1-557-38284-0. 

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