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Victor Niederhoffer

Victor Niederhoffer

Formal First Name
Victor
Dates
1943 - present

Victor Niederhoffer is a notable hedge fund manager, champion squash player, bestselling author, and statistician. He has specialized in trading futures and options since 1979. He began trading for his own account in 1998, after mortgaging his house and selling his collection of antique silver trophies. Niederhoffer’s interests include the study and implementation of counting, ecology, electronics, entrepreneurship, free markets, music, sports, statistics, and strategy in checkers and chess.

George Soros said in one of his books that Niederhoffer was the only one of his managers who retired voluntarily from trading for him while still ahead.