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What's his website address?

I heard the vast majority of his fortune is going to charity upon his demise. His wife and children will only recieve a small sum.

LOL, I think FXSkalper has like 10 aliases and just has these huge rolling conversations with himself

I'm suprised that I've never heard of this guy before, sounds like a BSD but he doesn't have the 10th of the profile of Buffett, Soros, Gross etc.

The mid-teens? Is there a gas leak in your house or something

Looking at the historical performance figures of star hedge funds, I think the best a hedge fund can aim for in a given year would be between 100-200%, and that would be considered a banner year. I really don't think it's realistically possible to sustain performance better than that over the...

Gator, that's pretty interesting, I wouldn't have known a lot on that list. I didn't know Lauren, Tepper, Lampert, Druckenmiller among others are jewish names. How did you find out all those people are jewish?

In order to achieve high triple digit annual returns, you'll have employ a lot of leverage and risk a large portion of your portfolio in a single trade. Even the best managers will eventually hit a few losses, and you'll be wiped out. It's possible to find the optimum leverage given you know the...

I apologize if I'm way off here, because I have very little experience in either market. I think that the Spyders would be better for a longer-term position because there's no rollover and therefore cheaper but the futures would offer more leverage. Those are the only two real differentiating...

If the spread is roughly the same as you say, then adding commisions, the total cost will be higher for futures?

I have a related question that I would really appreciate some help with. Is it possible for private traders to use a large investment bank like Goldman Sachs or Citigroup as a futures broker? Naturally the fees would be much higher, but there would be some benefits. Anyway, is it possible? Or...

Longer-term, so overnight. Brokers like Oanda, FXCM, Gaincapital have an effective leverage of between 100:1 to 200:1. What to most futures brokers offer? But it doesn't really matter because you'd have to be nucking futs to leverage up 200 times for a longer term trade.

7. Generally speaking, how does Futures leverage compare with Spot FX leverage?

Holy mackerel, I'd go with the geek, seems more trustworthy than a high-school dropout. Not to mention he probably gathered a plethora of valuable personal and business contacts throughout his life which would generally mean more stability than the other dude. What hedgeyourbets said is...

LOL Skalpz, yeh most hedge fund managers are severly underpaid. Compenstation formulas are high industry wide at around 2 and 20, With renntec and SAC charging 44 and 50 respectivly. Any higher than that and it would become very difficult to outperform the market afterfee's.

Yeh but real trading talent should also = money

lol is that a slogan from a homebuilder or a secondary market lender? (fannie, freddie)

lol riply's taking a walk down memory lane

There is also the problem of your broker coat-tailing your trades if you're consistantly picking winners. I read it happens frequently that brokers may share a profitable clients move with their prop traders and other clients.

OTC - Over The Counter, meaning you can't trade day trade it, mate.