Last week, when shares of J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) plunged and rumors about Herbalife (NYSE: HLF) going private surfaced, plenty of folks vilified Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital due to the hedge fund's positions in those stocks. Those who enjoy highlighting hedge fund manager trades gone...

Shares of Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) surged on Monday, up over eight percent. The closing of popular online betting website InTrade, combined with optimism for online gambling, may have contributed to the rally. There were also reports that Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) could consider purchasing the company....

Shares of social media gaming company Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) and Caesars Entertainment (NASDAQ: CZR) gapped higher on Monday after online gambling legislation was approved in Nevada. New Jersey is widely anticipated to follow suit. Shares of Zynga have been beaten down since the company's IPO. The...

It is safe to say that legendary investors such as Ray Dalio, George Soros and John Paulson did not become legends by making a lot of mistakes. Investing is not baseball, meaning the great players have to be great more than 30 percent of the time. Typically, the greatest names in the hedge fund...

The hedge fund world can be a rough place, even if you are a billionaire. How tough are the markets? Well, the story of John Paulson shows just how fickle they can be, even for the top investors in the world. Prior to the sub-prime mortgage collapse, Paulson was a respected, albeit little known...

The gold trade has always been controversial. Obviously, gold investors have done extremely well over the last decade, but many financial types still scoff at holding a large precious metals position. While "gold bugs" receive frequent derision, the reality is that many of the savviest money...

Coming off savage losses in 2011, John Paulson's eponymous Paulson & Co. hedge fund initiated new positions in several stocks, including JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), during the second quarter. The two Dow components are the largest U.S. banks by market cap. Paulson...

John Paulson, founder and President of Paulson and Co. today stated that he believes there is a 50 percent chance of a Eurozone breakup. Paulson, famous for his bets on the housing market before it collapsed and then predicting the rebound in financials, runs one of the largest hedge fund firms in...

For those that have always wanted to invest in a hedge fund, but can't afford those pesky minimum investments (often well into six and seven figures) or for those that want to part with 2% or 3% in management fees on top of 20%-30% of the profits, the ETF industry is attempting to come to the...

John Paulson, founder of Paulson & Co. and one of the world's most successful hedge fund managers, claims that his success can be traced to eating candy when he was a kid in the new book The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World's Top Hedge FundsThe Alpha Masters. He tells the story...