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If a drawdown/return < 1 is not good enough for you, exactly what is?

How do you know when someone is talking out of their depth? They talk in raw dollar amounts.

It's a really nice place, so I try to check it out once or twice a year. The rare books collection is quite nice, but think you can get me a private tour? You being a member of the house of morgan and all? What now?

Since the Morgan Library is not far from me, surely I'll be able to peruse your new accomplishment there.

Why don't you go talk to them and see if there's an offer to be worked out. You might be (1) a reasonable seasoned quant on the sell side with enough background that a big boy quant shop might want to fish you in and work something out with you, or (2) a junior quant working on some desk risk...

Weren't you the one asking for magic numbers? Not a rhetorical question (might be a 'rethorical' one, though).

Funny coming from a guy looking for magic numbers a few days ago.

Quant trading is an actual thing. Just because your prop group doesn't do it, why not go look for another shop that does, be it sell side or buy side.

No. Those are magic numbers.

Of course it doesn't. The old rule of thumb is 2-quarters. NBER definition is "a recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail...

AAPL and tech earnings.

if buy and hold is beating what you are doing, perhaps you should stop doing what you are doing and buy & hold.

Indeed

Oh boy this brings back memories... I was in the room when he handed these out when they were fresh.

Are you really signing a post under one pseudo name with another pseudo name?? I mean, I know this is the internet at all, but don't you think that's getting a little out of hand?

Excuse me, but where does the $9 new dollars come from?

Are you ignoring what everyone is telling you because you really really really want to believe you are right?

You are not really this dense... are you? If you believe what the article says, then it seems clear how you might become a billionaire yourself before the year is over.

You mean like Roman von Ungern-Sternberg? (If you don't know who that is, you owe it to yourself to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Ungern_von_Sternberg). This guy is freaking insane.