Recent content by tcm66

Not to rain on your parade, but here's a big "heads up": If you are seeking to invest in a package of hedge funds --- to generate positive investment returns not correlated with the broad market (S&P, etc.), be very aware that you will be attempting to accomplish something that a large number...

Continuing my post above: (2) Another poster admired Templeton's tax-dodging, and said that I "didn't know Sir john at all", and that I should read his book... Well, I don't have time to read his book, I am judging him on the basis of his actions, not words.... However, if...

On July 8, I made the following post: "It appears that Mr. Templeton was "a nice guy", but the fact that he dodged paying U.S. taxes on his lucrative sale of his company, by renouncing his U.S. citizenship, is unforgivable. Our country gave him the opportunity to succeed in his business...

The hedge fund "growth bubble" of the last several years is ripe for a severe decline, maybe a collapse. The only reason that so-called hedge funds (2 plus 20, or more) have attracted so much AUM (assets under management) over the past 7 or 8 years is because the dot.com mania led to a stock...

It appears that Mr. Templeton was "a nice guy", but the fact that he dodged paying U.S. taxes on his lucrative sale of his company, by renouncing his U.S. citizenship, is unforgivable. Our country gave him the opportunity to succeed in his business, provided the infrastructure necessary to build...

New Post 10-04-07 08:00 PM Reporting is voluntary... the operator pays a fee to be tracked. Matador stopped reporting in 2006. Thanks, Atticus But I'll still bet that every FOHF operator worldwide has the story down cold.

Why the big mystery on VN's performance and/or possible blowup in August? Wouldn't his data be shown by now by the many PAID hedge fund tracking services that exist? Doesn't anyone on this board have access to same? (I do not.) My understanding is that hedge funds that elect to report to the...

Posted by john12 above: " lol low confidence? sir you're a total joke. this market has gone 5 years without a 10% correction which is a world record. the last 4 months its ignored bad news from every angle and has refused to fall for more than a day or 2. every slime trader in the world...

Upon reading the above posts about "the death of trends", I wonder what one should call the huge moves during the past several years in crude oil, gold, silver, copper, grains, and even the world stock markets, especially the "emerging market" category. I would call many of these...

Private equity firms are buying NOT because they really see "value", but because they are flooded with investor money that needs to be put to work (or their fees get reduced) AND because the investment environment for junk bonds greatly favors the issuer (not the poor slob buyers, who don't have...

After years of being stuck with dial-up where I live, cable high-speed Internet finally arrived a year ago, so I searched diligently for the best broadband router (with firewall) available at the retail (home user) level. That turned out to be the Prestige 324 router by ZyXel --- which is...

Take a look at InterbankFX, which is based on the MT4 platform: www.interbankfx.com It is one of four retail forex market-makers I use, and so far (5 months), I have found them to be efficient and have relatively good spreads. However, the best retail spreads, by far, are at Oanda...

I am in Baltimore, MD, USA ---- unable to log in to Oanda FXTrade or access Oanda forum or bring up Oanda.com --- since 7 AM today. First time in past year this has happened for all 3 sites at same time in my experience with Oanda. If anyone unable to log-in suddenly becomes able...

In my case also, I haven't gotten a single TMBR execution at IB for well over a month (whereas I used to get at least 3 or 4 a day, sometimes up to 8 or 10). As to why, my guess is that IB has decided to enhance the value of their operation to traders by eliminating the inherent...