Twitter Savvy Helps Fuel 28-Year-Old’s Volatility Fund Ambitions
As he tries to get a new hedge fund going, Kris Sidial says he’s determined to make head-spinning rallies and market crashes work for him, not against him.
Sidial in New York City
Photographer: Elias Williams for Bloomberg Markets
By now, Kris Sidial has his daily routine down to a T. After an hour at the gym, the 28-year-old New Yorker spends mornings and afternoons on incessant Zoom calls with prospective investors for his fledgling hedge fund while keeping one eye on markets. That leaves evenings free to pore over investment strategies and study toward a master’s degree in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania.
All of which means there’s an increasingly small amount of time to actually do what he loves: trading. As a pinned tweet on his account puts it, “Live, breathe, eat, sleep trading … nothing else I rather do.”