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Let me understand this when I blow up my trading account for making bad trades I'm responsible for the loss...NO ONE including ECB or FED orlocalbank lends to me or bails me out. If I buy a home in the burbs and put 20% down and year later the house market goes down so my mark-to-market...

More funds blowing up. Highbridge, Goldman `Quant' Hedge Funds Lose Money (Update1) By Katherine Burton and Jenny Strasburg Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Hedge funds that use mathematical models to drive investment decisions, including those run by Highbridge Capital Management LLC, Goldman...

I've been position trading equities for some time and looking to move into trading the YM and ES during the evenings EST. As I have a real day job I'm only able to trade real-time during the evenings. I'm thinking about opening an account with IB and using Button Trader as the trading...

JASONJM my posting was a "tongue in cheek" joke. The plain english explanation is that the VAR models used by the highly paid and highly educated analysts at GS failed and the value of the Global Alpha hedge fund when marked to market is underwater.

Actually US Treasury could be seen as "sub-prime"....maybe time for international lenders to pull the plug on lending to US or force 500 basis point increase in cost of lending.

GS Global Alpha Fund recruited from around the world and employed the very best quants and PhD's in statistical normalization. That's why they jumped to recruit from Amaranth. They used a quant trading system with the Cray XT4 supercomputer http://www.cray.com/products/xt4/index.html and was...

Yes GS looks like a buy...providing it is a put. Goldman's Global Alpha Fund Fell 12% in Two Weeks, 16% in '07 By Jenny Strasburg and Katherine Burton Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s Global Alpha hedge fund fell almost 12 percent in the two weeks ended Aug. 3, bringing...

Looks the problems are here now....4 months later. So "Freddie & Fannie" preparing to step in and bail out the industry. Makes sense as they are government backed. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=auADFrEJpH9k&refer=home Fannie Mae Asks Regulator to Ease Portfolio...

Opps looks like GS hedge fund was unhedged! Expect more hedge fund meltdowns this week. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ak5AyYBt_meA&refer=home Goldman's Global Alpha Fund Fell 12% in Two Weeks, 16% in '07 By Jenny Strasburg and Katherine Burton Aug. 6...

Thanks for the support Piezoe. As for poor old Ben he has just inherited the mess and has the job of cleaning it up. The risk to the economy now is potentially stagflation. Fast decrease in GDP due to liquidity crunch, but increasing costs driven by BRIC demand.

cough.. cough...thought I should dust this thread off again... History never repeats.... http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=1382083

Hedge funds managers seen behind recent bout of late-day stock moves The Associated PressPublished: August 3, 2007 NEW YORK: If you're baffled by Wall Street's performance this past week, consider the increasing influence hedge funds have in manipulating the market. Investors spent...

Only one person to blame but Greenspan he single-handedly f***ed the market by flooding the market with $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Remember M3 reporting...once Greenspan requested printing presses to run 24x7 they decided better not report the increase in money supply (M3) Real inflation is...

Just watched the video clip LOL that is great...I'm crying:p

Only one person to blame but Greenspan he single-handedly f***ed the market by flooding the market with $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Remember M3 reporting...once Greenspan requested printing presses to run 24x7 they decided better not report the increase in money supply (M3) Real inflation is...

Got to look at this live...Jim Rogers interview. http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?clipSRC=LiveAS

German Government to step in to save hedge fund. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20079844/ Germany rescues subprime lender Financial Times Updated: 19 minutes ago US mortgage turmoil hit investor confidence on the other side of the Atlantic on Wednesday as details emerged of a German...

http://www.financialnews-us.com/?page=ushome&contentid=2348454541 Tudor hedge fund loses 9% in a month William Hutchings 02 Aug 2007 A $9bn (€7bn) hedge fund run by US firm Tudor Investment Corporation recorded a loss of 9.02% in July as many hedge funds failed to protect...

ditto for yourself.

and Paulson was proactive to identify the upcoming problem Greenspan created with his helicopter monetry policy. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/10/30/ccview30.xml The top brass will meet every six weeks, combining the heads of Treasury, Federal Reserve...