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uh --- if you look at the Bloomberg article, it specifically points out that: 1) He is a "prolific day trader" - the second line of the article 2) that it's his assets, in that his name "appears in mandatory shareholder filings" - as they did for guys like BNF / Takeshi Kotegawa, where...

that's VERY specific

they need to make a documentary, TV show about these ppl ASAP would be more entertaining & more educational than 99% of the stuff on TV these days

a few minutes earlier Bloomberg came out with a story about how one Japanese day trader had a $75mm drawdown i thought it was CIS, but it turned out to be another guy apparently the $75mm drawdown only represented 20% of his personal portfolio so somehow he amassed at least US$370+ million &...

That’s strange, how come they don’t even try to recover the shortfall from the client/ firm? The timeline being so fast seems to indicate they just gave up immediately on collection I mean, 200m is probably no small potatoes even to a place like ABN, so how come they’re not putting a team on this

i meant it as unofficial, de-facto terms with US being most economically and politically powerful country in the G7, it stands to reason that the pres of US is de-facto head of G7 just like how even though all the central banks are supposed to act independently, they are de-facto influenced to...

that's the thing though - "greedy and destructive" on the macro level doesn't always mean people are going to refuse it on the individual level eg. i bet after this whole thing, the concept of Universal Basic Income is going to draw a lot more support. certainly if they're actually given...

as a member of the millennial generation, gotta say that life became exponentially better after i traded the classic 'rational assumption' theories that my professors taught for the way cooler MMT the madness of crowds will carry you far, my friend

but if no pressure to repay, how come Pres T is so concerned about trade deficit before corona? that said, i don't mind the money ramp, eventually it gets to be very....reassuring...

sorry that was a bit tongue incheek only but in all reality, like in the markets if everyone else is acting that way, the rational thing to do is to go buy TP / implement stoploss as well if the mob is acting crazy, sometimes it's better to just go along or risk being out of TP

it'd be good to get to those times again when toughest decision of the day is where to go for lunch, tao or zuma that, or else ppl could be squabbling over year old cans of corn and peas i hope everyone's well stocked with TP - i heard they're making low quality ones now to meet demand

yea, hope they just stop at energetic market ramp and war of words only but if s**t hits the fan i'm taking off to the mountains (not sayin which one) with my fam and the lab retriever

lol, they just shut down the state of California!! the land of san fran unicorn startups, trendsetting fads, uber, even sriracha sauce i guess we have the daily press conference to look forward to at 11:30am ET

alright, i'm sure many of us are closely following the news regardless of our individual political opinions, there are some patterns that we've all seen 1) Economic fallout has been huge 2) Governments around the world are going into even more debt on top of existing debt 3) G7 countries ex...

lol, by the time it doesnt work, they probably stashed away millions the more you look into what some of these guys are doing when placing trades, the more you wonder if the whole cloak and dagger secrecy thing is just for show the analysis is not that groundbreaking

according to bloomberg, there are many commodity traders who are in line to receive multiple millions each for shorting natural gas last year Seven-Figure Bonuses Rise This Season for Top Energy Traders one of the desk heads they interviewed said something along the lines of there being a...

you're probably thinking of moores law if they had toilet paper futures i'd be all ovre that stuff, would even consider taking physical delivery of those too yes, traders gotta trade...any ideas in particular you recommend? personally i've just been scalping FX futures

lol, i use IB's TWS and there were glitches where on the DOM the prices don't load fast enough in real time and lag in updating only every so often yea, you'd think by this time in modern history we'd be past toilet paper shortages too

that's the dilemma -- the high vol makes it attractive to trade but the risks are: 1) broker platforms freezing bc of unprecedented volumes, everyone logging in to trade from home and at the same time the brokerage employees, their IT staff also working from home 2) if the vol gets above a...

so according to news from various sources, the Philippines has now decided to close their country's financial markets to all trading in stocks and bonds their markets were down by 30%+ for the year just wondering what happens if the policy gets implemented elsewhere, like if there's no trading...