Michael Steinhardt leads HEDGEfolios, an online newsletter that offers its readers assistance to build and manage their own portfolios through reading articles and using a database that covers over 2,750 stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs). The goal of HEDGEfolios is to bring fundamental and technical analysis together in a format that is easy for everyone to understand without having to run fundamental screens or look at confusing technical indicators.

Michael Steinhardt is not “that” Michael Steinhardt – the hedge fund manager that is often called one of the greatest investors of all time. It would be great to hear the same thing said about “this” Michael Steinhardt someday, but my focus is to ensure that HEDGEfolios helps its users achieve similarly spectacular results. My bachelor’s degree and MBA in finance from Indiana University are helpful, but there are no degrees granted for trading, making money or building websites. The main thing that is relevant to HEDGEfolios is my experience at McDonald Financial helping manage portfolios after the markets peaked in 2000. During those years, the market was moving faster than a quantitative and technical analyst like me could do the research so I became committed to making the simplest, fastest and most accurate portfolio management tool. For the past two years, I have been devoted to developing analytical methodologies, tracking the performance, and building, with the help of an excellent web developer, the HEDGEfolios site.