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Shorting zero coupon bonds too. Forgot the most obvious trade.

Inflation will return at some point. Maybe not next month or next year, but at some point. So what to buy for long term ownership? I'm not saying these should be bought now, but what assets you would buy with an expectation of higher inflation in the next few years. First, please don't...

The other annoying thing is when thousands of shares trade at .001 above my bid. Makes me think the day of specialists and fractions wasn't too bad for the small timers.

You haven't explained anything, but thanks for replying.

I put in a bid for 500 shares on a NYSE stock at 1c above bid and got filled on 1 share. Why would the bot/market maker/whoever sell me one share? Is 500 shares some sort of threshold for something?

Lebed has been pumping SYNC Synacor. Probably good for another few points here.

Yeah that chart is just screaming . . . something.

why not short zroz vs. tbt?

I don't think the point of his fund is to make money. The real point of his fund is to lose money while other people make money with the assurance that losing money is the reward for being smarter than the blind monkeys chasing stocks. I know this sounds crazy, but some people are just that...

http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424053111904346504577531052506630454.html?mod=bol_share_tweet IB trying to sandbag results to depress stock price to take it private again.

Seeing as covered calls are exactly the same as selling puts*, the best idea is to find a trending stock with high volatility. They will sometimes collapse but the elevated volatility will more than compensate. The top IBD stocks should offer some good candidates. The best play though is to sell...

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=HSGFX&t=2y&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=^GSPC Last two years' underperformance is really bad. Like I said, he's living off some good years about a decade ago. Ever since he's been underperforming. You say he's not an absolute return manager, which makes his underperformance...

Peak to trough over 30%. Kind of belies the idea that this is a conservative fund. Conservative funds don't have 30%+ drawdowns.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=HSGFX+Interactive#symbol=hsgfx;range=20080208,20091229;compare=^gspc;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined; Looks like he hedged the crash, took off the hedge (and lost over 30%), then put the hedge back on...

Wouldn't a good trading coach also be a good trader, and therefore be very expensive?

He came out at the right time, which is key. The fund was launched at the height of the internet bubble, which gave him a few years of outperformance as he hedged positions. Back out those initial years and the return has been sub-par.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/03/full-tilt-poker-ceo-arrested-in-nyc-for-alleged-ponzi-scheme/ United States law enforcement arrested Full Tilt Poker’s chief executive, Ray Bitar, on charges that Full Tilt was being run like a Ponzi scheme. Bitar voluntarily surrendered in New York City...

This from 2/26/11: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=213286&perpage=6&pagenumber=12 "Was caught long in the market on Tues sell-off. Lost 15K. Then came Wed, and as the early morning weakness came, scooped up a number of names: NFLX CMG BIDU etc in stock and options...

I haven't gone through the thread to try to figure out his trades . . . does anyone know what kind of trades he takes? I'm guessing lots of shorting tops and buying bottoms. RTM has destroyed many accounts.

Another ELITE TRADER. You've come to the right place. As to your question, no clue . . . The 13F is released in August, that should be interesting.