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He is far too busy trading and making a boatload of money to post with pikers here on ET.

In Market Wizards, Bruce Kovner said there better opportunities in less observed currency pairs.

To bet against the herd means to be a contrarian. If you bet against the herd, you are likely to be trampled into a pancake. Betting against the herd only works at inflection points, which are difficult to determine, thus most traders try to trade in the direction of the major trend.

"Phone numbers will live in the cloud so that consumers can talk and text on any connected tablet, Google said." http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/22/us-usa-google-wireless-idUSKBN0ND27O20150422

It will, but timing is a problem. I wouldn't be surprised if Bill Gross loses a lot of money trying to short German Bunds.

If this takes off, a lot of small business owners of mailbox and shipping stores would go bust.

Watch the last 3 minutes of this video on PTJ from 1987. http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=8816&v=KrWbaErDtws

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/20/oscar-145m/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=cb_daily&utm_campaign=email#.cpdwjt:NJPO https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/oscar?utm_medium=email&utm_source=cb_daily&utm_campaign=email

I bet this guy has hot keys programmed.

He only needs 3 monitors.

That strategy prospered in the 1980s all the way up until there was a crackdown on the practice. It worked for Gil Blake and Norm Zadeh. Worked so well for Norm that he was able to burn through $46 million in his ill-fated attempt to create a nudie magazine empire.

The educational value is that it's a dose of truth to damper the often unrealistic expectations that newbie traders/investors have. There's this false perception among inexperienced traders that making money in the financial markets is easy. It's usually not until they've wiped out and lost...

A person worth $5,000 who decides to donate his entire $5,000 net worth, or 100% of it, would probably not be called a philanthropist by anyone's definition except perhaps his own.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2015/04/18/shopping-mall-billionaire-philanthropist-alfred-taubman-dies-at-age-91/ Alfred Taubman, founder of Taubman Centers, died on Friday evening in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. According to his son Robert, the company’s chairman and CEO, his father has...

Don't lose the farm. Imho, if you must make a big bet, then bet with gains to be recognized in the current year. Don't bet big with your "principal."

Good for certain sectors, such as beer and sauna business, except for the occasional crackdowns. As well as this biz: Pricey plastic sex dolls are fulfilling the desires of China's lonely hearts...

$500k down the

"93% of the companies that get accepted by Y Combinator eventually fail ... More alarmingly, the companies accepted by Y Combinator are only a tiny fraction of the companies that apply. Some have estimated that Y Combinator's acceptance rate is 3-5%."...

http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21648715-distorted-sex-ratios-birth-generation-ago-are-changing-marriage-and-damaging-societies-asias

I think it's ridiculous for you to criticize Paul Tudor Jones. He is one of the world's preeminent philanthropists having started the Robin Hood Foundation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_Foundation A billionaire really doesn't have to give one damn penny to the less fortunate if he...