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Your long and short book aren't diversified across sectors; in fact they're both long and short highly correlated stocks. I would use rules such as Min allocation per sector 7.5% Max allocation per sector 25% on both the long and short side. A good starting point is the S&P classification...

You would have thought with a couple hundred million he'd do better than this :confused: : (http://www.wnbc.com/news/16657609/detail.html)

So he's rich and you become depressed because he didn't invite you for a round of golf? There will always be people - rich and poor - that are critical of you and what you do. Why bother thinking about them?

I think it's great they started with these two liars. But why only go after hedge fund guys? Every Wall Street professional that lied to investors about facts should be prosecuted. IMO the Feds should go after Dick Fuld and Erin Callan from Lehman next for lying blatantly to investors with...

I thought it was just a bubble?

Friends & Family.

Summer doldrums are here.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aefVn_KahdBI&refer=home June 19 (Bloomberg) -- Two former managers at Bear Stearns Cos. hedge funds were arrested at their homes this morning by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation over their roles in the collapse of hedge funds...

Equity index futures and the corresponding equity ETFs are arb'ed against the same underlying. How can one be a zero sum game and the other is not?

Changing instruments won't make you a better trader.

Stocks were up approx 33% year to date before the bottom fell out starting with August of 1987. There was plenty of 'good news' that drove up prices to that level all year.

Having this 'asset' usually helps

Rough Seas? Prime Brokerages Change Tack To Navigate Choppy Markets June 16, 2008 http://www.finalternatives.com/node/4616

Wouldn't you sell your ES contract if you knew it was trading at a 30% premium to the underlying price of the basket of 500 stocks in the cash market? Or would you hang on to your ES contract and hope the premium grows bigger if it 'kept going up'?

Keep averaging into positions continuously making new 52w lows and dream about 'great profits'. You will end up taking 2% in profits after a 20% drawdown. Awesome risk/reward setup.

So whats the minimum account size for an institutional prime brokerage account with a) GS b) LEH c) MS d) BSC/JPM

How is that? I thought you said it's just a bubble?

Sounds good.

Then why don't commercial oil companies not exploit this supposed market inefficiency (an artificially high price in the futures market compared to the spot market) and sell a couple months worth of oil supply right to the evil speculators? Simply hitting all the bids in the CL book? If all...