{"id":25773,"date":"2011-11-02T09:34:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T13:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=25773"},"modified":"2011-11-02T09:36:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T13:36:05","slug":"harriss-hedge-fund-trades-on-fear-makes-millions-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2011\/harriss-hedge-fund-trades-on-fear-makes-millions-interview.html","title":{"rendered":"Harris&#8217;s Hedge Fund Trades on Fear, Makes Millions: Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San\u00a0Francisco\u00a0Chronicle- Imagine the killing to be made right now if you could find a way to capitalize on fear. That&#8217;s precisely what Dr. Alexander Hoffman does in Robert Harris&#8217;s gothic new thriller, &#8220;The Fear Index.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The physicist-turned-hedge-fund-manager unleashes a trading algorithm that feeds on human emotions to predict market fluctuations. In just a week, VIXAL-4 makes a profit of $79.7 million. Then, on May 6, 2010 &#8212; the day of the so-called flash crash, when the Dow briefly dropped 9.2 percent &#8212; it goes rogue, catapulting its creator into a paranoid universe of murder and market mayhem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2011\/11\/02\/bloomberg_articlesLU03BQ0UQVI9.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San\u00a0Francisco\u00a0Chronicle- Imagine the killing to be made right now if you could find a way to capitalize on fear. That&#8217;s precisely what Dr. Alexander Hoffman does in Robert Harris&#8217;s gothic new thriller, &#8220;The Fear Index.&#8221; The physicist-turned-hedge-fund-manager unleashes a trading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25775,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25773\/revisions\/25775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}