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    How does Nassim Taleb trade?

    www.nuclearphynance.com/User%20Files/2/ Dispersion%20-%20A%20guide%20for%20the%20clueless%201.1.pdf Good explanation here maybe
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    How does Nassim Taleb trade?

    I read the same thing empee and came to the same conclusion. This appears to be what he does in laymans terms (as I see it): sell options ---> make money to run business and to pay for otm options buy otm options -----> make money once a 6 or 7 sigma event occurs. To what extent...
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    How does Nassim Taleb trade?

    long volatility
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    Brian Hunter left Amaranth

    These firm put like 3% of their capital in HFs and 1% in VC. They are not "exposed". http://www.calcsea.org/president/pension_attack/20050322-pension-nctimes.asp Seems like a good fund to me. Amaranth should rename itself Aftermath Advisors
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    What if I think the Market is totally Random

    If markets are efficient why is it possible to create a losing or winning system that has returns more than several standard deviations away from the market return as a whole? The answer : Because markets are not efficient
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    Back Testing Survivor Bias

    and only risk to the extent to which your comfortable with losing .. statistically.
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    How do you lose $5 billion in one week?

    http://workingtorontojobs.canada.com/texis/jobsearch/details.html?id=45134da96d67e0&q=trader&qMiles=10&pp=25&view=1&page=1 Looks like they are hiring Hunters replacement.
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    AmiBroker data advice?

    http://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_quotes.html
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    Shadowing activist hedge funds/13D filings

    I wouldnt rely on icahn to be right all the time. His IMCL holding looks like a serious mistake, with the company being sued by several different parties in the discovery and manufacturing of Erbitux. IMCL is a sinking ship regardless of the captain.
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    Is Barron's becoming worthless?

    ya its going downhill fast. Too bad my local bookstore doesnt get IBD
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    Martingale system during earnings.

    i suggest going to portfolio123.com and backtesting your strategy.
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    How do you lose $5 billion in one week?

    The whole thing seems fishy because only one position is large in the equity portion is large, and its SPYs. There is no position showing Cinram, which I have read is some big position that Amaranth had.
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    List of SP stocks ranked by marketcap

    http://research.businessweek.com/scoreboard.asp?page=1&order=Marketcap&type=2 All I could find
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    Rimm

    Ya thats a good thing that you arent in options. Jump in an see, cover at 78 or buy at 94 if you get stopped out.
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    Rimm

    Do you do short or buy options?
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    Challenge to Dan Zanger's results

    arthur anderson?
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    neiderhoffer

    don't use air conditioning
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    market maker

    Ive seen optiver's hiring ads recently for jobs in Amsterdam and elsewhere.
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    Learning programming/modeling

    Are you saying event processing is vaporware?
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