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Meaning, a fund set up such that it had a performance fee (~10%) above its management fee (~1-2%) but also adhered to many hedge fund rules that the performance fee would only be deducted if a fund is in a losing position once the investors were made whole (recouped back their losses)...

Why do you need a ticker at all? CNBC/CNNfn do it as old habit, no pros use it (or shouldn't).

And aside from casual and ignorant viewers of CNBC and a few electronic tickers on Times Square who actually uses tickers for trading info (as by the time the data is shown it's already old news)? By tickers I mean the traditional scroll.

I know this may be Wall Street heresy, but is it time to retire the use of abbreviated symbols as shorthand for company stock names? As more market information goes online it seems that except for the business pages of newspapers, there is no real need to abbreviate a company's name for stock...

2003 Year End Review 12/31/03 Update Type Recommendation (current status) ------ --------------------- 1 Strong bull (anticipate significant upside near-term) 2 Weak bull (conditional upside, probable strength) 3 Neutral (uncertain current outlook, could go...

12/29/03 Update Type Recommendation (current status) ------ --------------------- 1 Strong bull (anticipate significant upside near-term) 2 Weak bull (conditional upside, probable strength) 3 Neutral (uncertain current outlook, could go either way) 4...

12/18/03 Update Type Recommendation (current status) ------ --------------------- 1 Strong bull (anticipate significant upside near-term) 2 Weak bull (conditional upside, probable strength) 3 Neutral (uncertain current outlook, could go either way) 4...

Among various commentaries I've read over the years, one of the most repeated is that stocks have individual tendencies that are above and beyond market noise or fundamental outcomes. Meaning that XYZ stock will almost always do this or that whenever an incident occurs while ABC stock may do...

12/11/03 Update Type Recommendation (current status) ------ --------------------- 1 Strong bull (anticipate significant upside near-term) 2 Weak bull (conditional upside, probable strength) 3 Neutral (uncertain current outlook, could go either way) 4...

Traders like J. Cramer tout that their style of subscription service to select stocks are worth paying for because they give you a preview of what they are going to buy before they actually do. The rational is that if these experienced guys are willing to buy XYZ stock, then given the...

Sorry, already posted earlier...duh!

Vic Niederhoffer's website Daily Speculations has an excellent transcript of a discussion with several top money thinkers and traders around the issue of technical analysis (charting v. counting, et al). Included were John Bollinger among others. http://dailyspeculations.com/Letter/taforum.htm

12/8/03 Update Type Recommendation (current status) ------ --------------------- 1 Strong bull (anticipate significant upside near-term) 2 Weak bull (conditional upside, probable strength) 3 Neutral (uncertain current outlook, could go either way) 4 Weak...

11/29/03 Update Type Recommendation (current status) ------ --------------------- 1 Strong bull (anticipate significant upside near-term) 2 Weak bull (conditional upside, probable strength) 3 Neutral (uncertain current outlook, could go either way) 4...

11/3/03 Update Type Recommendation (current status) ------ --------------------- 1 Strong bull (anticipate significant upside near-term) 2 Weak bull (conditional upside, probable strength) 3 Neutral (uncertain current outlook, could go either way) 4 Weak...

Would this work to mitigate the costs on trading a large block (>250K shares) of stock? Before you actually place the order (in this case, a buy) you trade in their options either/or/both through buying a call or writing a put (bullish bets). Because you know that your actual equity purchase...

I am not talking about an illusionary fly-by-nighter (see ZZZ Best), but if a solid company did it this way: a Google, a UPS, et al.

Okay, let's reverse the strategy aka go Berkshire. Have an IPO with few shares issued but at a huge initial price (~$40K/share). The effect of it would be to keep the stock out of the hands of day-traders because of the huge spread.

I think you misunderstand, when I meant a trillion shares, I am referring to outstanding shares, of which the issued IPO number may be far lower. And I am not saying it would happen, just that there is no technical reason why it couldn't.

Let's say a company wants an IPO for its stock. However, instead of pricing it at $10 and issuing 1 billion shares for a market cap of $10B, it is priced at $.01 and 1 TRILLION shares are issued (or at the lowest possible initial trading price). That way the stock can never fall without being...