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Balyasny reinvested broker commissions into his personal trading account at 18
“Turned 18, I was licensed as a stock broker, got a job at a small firm, mostly cold calling, trying to get new clients, and I started reinvesting the commissions that I earned from being a broker to my own trading account.”
Morning trading strategy focused on relative weakness and market reversals
“In the morning, a lot of times, you look for reversal trades, where the market would open up, and you look for stocks that weren't trading well versus the market, and they were showing relative weakness versus the market, and industries that were showing relat…”
Afternoon trading strategy centered on momentum and multi-day position building
“In the afternoon, it was typically more momentum type trading where you're looking for things that were really outperforming during the day, continued to gather momentum into the afternoon session where They might be a multi-day type of trade. You were trying …”
Early trading focused on short-term catalysts over long-term valuation models
“I was focused on the change in fundamentals and news flow, so I wasn't focused on fundamentals of trying to figure out what a company was going to earn next year, but we were focused on what is driving the stock for the next few days and few weeks. We weren't …”