HOW HOFFMAN BECAME A BETTER TRADER

摘要

Rob Hoffman was interested in trading from a very early age; he would read books on trading from the library as a teenager. In college he studied for a career in the military but poor eyesight ended that dream. Instead he went into law enforcement and continued to study trading. Hoffman worked at a suburban Chicago sheriff's department. He got a lot of court overtime, which allowed him to earn extra money to stake his trading and also time to study markets. In the late 1990s, after dabbling in stocks, Hoffman decided to focus on stock indexes; the new Dow Jones futures in particular. However, Dow futures were not liquid enough at the time.