If you’re like me, when you hear the word “cowboy,” you likely think of Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly or Unforgiven; John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; or Gary Cooper in High Noon. In Wall Street parlance, these are the front-office traders and portfolio managers.

But a real cowboy is someone who herds and tends to cattle. The reality is not quite as sexy as Paul Newman and Robert Redford single-handedly taking on the entire Bolivian Army, but