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  1. J

    kirk kirkorian has lost over 10 billion-close to a margin call

    all these billionaires are overlevered
  2. J

    Who's fading this move up?

    youre too bearish
  3. J

    Private trader is King of short selling

    "Im intellectually superior". ha. these guys all ways go broke.
  4. J

    Hearing Chicago MERC trader commited suicide after blowing out

    I think this what Nassim Taleb talks about in length in the "Fooled by Randomness" and 'The Black Swan". There a lot of idiot savants in trading and finance. George Soros wasnt near the top of his class at the LSE and isnt good at math, but he can smell BS a mile a while and can handle trading...
  5. J

    Buffett going 100% long stocks

    Even if you are super bearish the market is so oversold that I dont see the reason trying to play from the short side. at some point the redemptions and margin calls are going to end.
  6. J

    Morgan CEO mack just said 'We all learned leverage works both ways"

    When the US taxpayers standing behind you who cares!
  7. J

    Hedge Fund Bailouts....Coming As Well ?

    I dont think gov has any interest in protecting HF. There are no regulations governing them which allowed them to take vastly greater risks than banks. A lot of them are finished
  8. J

    Nassim Taleb's `Black Swan' Investors Post 50% Gains as Markets Take Dive

    Agreed.
  9. J

    Citadel down 30 percent for the year

    bye bye.
  10. J

    Greenspan opposed any sensible regulation !

    He drank that super sweet kool aid!
  11. J

    Nassim Taleb's `Black Swan' Investors Post 50% Gains as Markets Take Dive

    No i didnt, but I believe it. Thats when the government banned short sales right?
  12. J

    Nassim Taleb's `Black Swan' Investors Post 50% Gains as Markets Take Dive

    I keep seeing more and more antidotes on the internet that there was a lot of big money that got margined out and blown to bits last week. I bet there are some former HF superstars that lost 80 percent of there networth
  13. J

    Steve Cohen went to cash last week (at the bottom)

    Yea, you and I can hide there because were not managing zillions.
  14. J

    Steve Cohen went to cash last week (at the bottom)

    I dont know. this was a crash. In previous months there were always sectors to hide. you couldnt hide anywhere last week. Also the inability to short must have hurt
  15. J

    Nassim Taleb's `Black Swan' Investors Post 50% Gains as Markets Take Dive

    In "Fooled By Randomness" he writes about the anguish of losing little bits day after day.
  16. J

    Nassim Taleb's `Black Swan' Investors Post 50% Gains as Markets Take Dive

    The Black Swan is my favorite book
  17. J

    Steve Cohen went to cash last week (at the bottom)

    Im not saying hes superman, but hes the closet thing too it and he readily admits that his trading style no longer exists
  18. J

    Steve Cohen went to cash last week (at the bottom)

    Hes guy is the greatest stock trader ever. If hes in cash its for a very good reason
  19. J

    Does Paulson new assistant, Kashkari looks like...

    Isnt these financial engineers at goldman that blew up this system? Havent we learned that this doesnt work.
  20. J

    Soros Calls Europe Plan to Support Banks `Positive' Step

    Exactly. And hes mentioned this was meltdown was going to happen for a very longtime
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