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  1. Chuck Krug

    How alleged Ponzi hedge funder Brenda Smith fell from grace -- and her Rittenhouse Square penthouse

    How alleged Ponzi hedge funder Brenda Smith fell from grace -- and her Rittenhouse Square penthouse -- to a N.J. jail. In 2017, Brenda Ann Smith was riding high. Trained as an accountant, Smith had spent three years raising $105 million for a hedge fund from 40 investors. She owned a seat on...
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    Thoughts on unusual options activity?

    Sig: It was in Europe before 05/2006, there was no disclosure law yet.
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    Thoughts on unusual options activity?

    I had a friend who worked on a desk at a bulge bracket, and he had a CEO of a listed company, buying 1000's of puts (so to speak, to 'hedge' the 100,000's of shares he owned) days before a bad quarterly report came out.
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    beginner technical analysis

    Wait for the breakout
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    WSJ: Trump wants to buy Greenland

    Who says Greenland is for sale?
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    Mobile Phone Signal Booster/Repeater Needed?

    Get a femtocell. Nokia Siemens' are pretty decent. should be around 85 bucks
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    Cost of hedging USD exposure

    Base: euro Long usd Amount: 100k euro
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    Cost of hedging USD exposure

    Hi everyone, Sorry for the noobish question, but it never came up before. As a European, how much would it cost to hedge 1 year of 100k usd exposure? + what are the best products to do so? futures? or anything else? Thx
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    BABA: The bear case

    Thanks for reminding me, I forgot this thread existed. https://deep-throat-ipo.blogspot.com/2019/05/babaan-earnings-call-without-discussing.html
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    Peter Thiel-Backed Crypto Startup Pays Out 6,567% Return

    They raise 4 billion to put more than half of it in treasuries.
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    Peter Thiel-Backed Crypto Startup Pays Out 6,567% Return

    My first thought was: buyback at an elevated price to artificially inflate it
  12. Chuck Krug

    Peter Thiel-Backed Crypto Startup Pays Out 6,567% Return

    Cryptocurrencies Peter Thiel-Backed Crypto Startup Pays Out 6,567% Return After raising $4 billion in a record token sale, Block.one gives some back to shareholders. Billionaire moneymen Peter Thiel, Alan Howard and Louis Bacon have seen plenty of big paydays—but probably none as unusual as this...
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    The ballers bible: A guide to levelling up quickly

    By Tom Dante
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    Degrees of Confidence

    https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/degrees-of-confidence/
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    Anyone living (lived) in a pareado or adosado in spain?

    Louis: I know nothing about taxes on dividends in Spain, sorry. I rented there, as I only lived there for a year. I just needed a note/declaration from my bank, it was relatively hassle free.
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    Anyone living (lived) in a pareado or adosado in spain?

    I lived for a year in a 5 bedroom, 4 bathroom penthouse in the most upscale neighborhood of Barcelona (Sarriá-Sant Gervasi) And boy were those walls thin. I sometimes pitied our neighbors, to be honest. Much much thinner than we are used to in Belgium and The Netherlands, were i lived most of my...
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    You Have To Live It To Believe It

    You Have To Live It To Believe It Apr 9, 2019 by Morgan Housel Richard Held and Alan Hein raised 20 kittens in pitch black darkness. Which is the kind of thing you should only do if it’s necessary to prove a point critical to understanding how the world works. Thankfully they did just that...
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    Hedging in German (DAX) market

    you can somewhat hedge being long fdax by shorting estoxx50
  19. Chuck Krug

    International tax advice, big 4 ? Need feedback

    Check out the Belgian coast next time, it's only 65km but it's nice. Quiet in the winter, and busy in the summer, and something for everyone imo
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    International tax advice, big 4 ? Need feedback

    Yeah Luis, I am Dutch, currently living in Belgium for a while now. Lived in the suburbs of Bruges and also Antwerp city centre and it's suburbs, and more recently we moved to the seaside in Oostduinkerke. Living is pretty good here, you will find that most people speak English too. If you are...
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