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How about futures prop firms? Any feedback

Does he still run a hedgefund? i thought he had quit.

The SP fell 3.5 percent on february 27. So much for "arbed out".

Success breeds complecency. Hubris brings disaster. Soros greatest strength was that he knew he wasnt super human.

ask asia.

You want to know when everything is going to go down? Call the BOJ and PBOC.

the interview wasnt what I was expecting.

Id buy some otm puts on the FXI. You have to play the lottery sometime.

I wonder what Taleb thinks about contrarian plays in currencies and bonds right now. Its time to start thinking about the anti carry trade.

I think bonds as well as currencies have been abandoned by the private sector. G10 CB's have simply overwhelmed any ability to move the markets out of there current ranges. Sorry to keep repeating it. I just had to vent. The market doesn't need to sweat the fed, because there not in charge.

The counterparty risk is the huge problem. Look at the investors who took the other (winning) side of the subprime cds market. It hard to be a crisis hunter as Taleb would say when you can't collect. No wonder everyone wants to write insurance.

The ROW seems to want nothing more than our debt and since we are the ultimate capitalists we are finding ways to get to them. China has no interest in selling US bonds as long as we can keep creating debt for there people to make a living on. Doesn't sound that bad if you are in the debt...

interesting quote. Says a lot about the dollar and the current dollar PKO operation.

I think the author makes good points. 20 years ago we were more prone to human emotional panics. Now that the computers are trying to remove human bias we get a market that acts more like windows. It works perfectly most of the time, but when it breaks down things get out hand really fast.

Dark pools.

Its kind of like having a computer turn the key to launch a nuclear strike.

Google "Vix and More" its a blog with good stuff about the vix vs spx

Twenty years ago countries used tariffs to protect industries, now they just manipulate interest rate and currency markets. Same result. How much slower can the dollar decline? Its like a global Japaneese PKO operation.

The fundamentals don't mean Sh$t when you can borrow free money from Fukui in Japan and leverage into anything

Voldemort continues to run the bond market.