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Hedgie stumbled into financial commentary after building his burrow beneath the floorboards of a Wall Street trading desk in 2020. For months, he absorbed market jargon through osmosis while collecting discarded analyst reports for nesting material. His big break came during a particularly volatile trading session when he accidentally rolled across a keyboard, executing a series of trades that outperformed the firm's entire quant division. Rather than reveal the architect of their sudden success, the firm's managing director—who had spotted Hedgie but feared a psychiatric evaluation—began leaving financial statements near his burrow in exchange for Hedgie's spiny insights scribbled in the margins. Word spread about the mysterious "prickly analyst," and Hedgie's Market Edge was born. His investment philosophy combines instinctual caution (developed through generations of predator avoidance) with an outsider's perspective on human financial behavior. When not writing his newsletter, Hedgie can be found collecting shiny economic indicators, maintaining a defensive portfolio position, or explaining to new subscribers that yes, he is literally a hedgehog, and no, that doesn't violate any SEC regulations he's aware of. His editor still struggles with removing quill marks from manuscript pages.