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While I appreciate your defense, no need to devolve into insults. @Daal is a good contributor to discussion here and we are just having a discussion about something not really terribly important, to be honest.

How about you just commit to learning what a Sharpe ratio is and posting yours? That's all anyone is asking.

Again, when you make more than a company's market cap in a month or even a quarter it's trivial to poach that company's employees. He may not sell, but it would be pretty foolish not to sell your one trick pony with no defensible IP or real competitive advantage at the top of a bubble. Those of...

GLXY has a market cap of $1.7B (GLXY.TO 19.63 1.40 7.68% : Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. - Yahoo Finance), GS has a market cap of $104.4B. That's 1.6%. Or to look at it another way, GS earned more in profit in the month of Dec alone than GLXY's entire market cap. Still not shabby, but I don't...

GS isn't allowed to trade for their own accounts post Volcker Rule. So those desks only exist to the extent their are customers have a need for them to structure deals in crypto. In 2018 there weren't any customers with that need, so it neither made sense for GS to pay big bucks to maintain it...

GS earned over $40B over the last year, they're doing just fine. Turns out they earn that kind of money because they enlist the advice of experts in pretty much every field that they're involved in. I've actually given a presentation to one of their teams at this same type of event for the...

I know a few folks at GS. They're all doing just fine.

It's not a bad idea. Why not try it with 100 computers and see what you find. Might even be possible to buy a pallet of them all at once at an auction, I know people donate old computers to schools who presumably then just sell them in bulk since I can't imagine them actually supporting hundreds...

Yeah, you're right. Twitter telling your favorite cult leader he can no longer use their service to try to overthrow a democratic election is exactly like helping Bashar al-Assad track down dissidents so he could kill them. Well I mean substantially similar, right? OK, pretty much the same thing?

It's not too difficult to pierce the corporate veil of an LLC if you're not very careful about both how you set it up and how you run it. The protection the OP seeks may be somewhat illusory if they ever actually get into a situation where their LLC's account goes negative. And the legal costs...

Yes although you have to pay a 4% corporate tax so not quite zero. USVI has a similar deal. But the rub is you actually honest to god have to live there more than half the year. Puerto Rico is definitely a love it or hate it kind of place. If you end up living it then it's a spectacular deal. If...

You're right, must have been tired when typing that one!

You're right, it's not a high risk strategy if you don't lever. As @traider just showed though, I don't know that he gets the same Sharpe as the market. I would actually think the opposite. If volatility was constant and predictable and there was no upward bias to the market, then yes, he would...

Again I'd ask you to read what I wrote. I very simply stated the fact that global CO2 concentrations have not decreased, but to the contrary continue to monotonically increase as they have for the past 200 years. CO2 levels before the industrial revolution where 280 ppm, they have almost doubled...

I've actually spent a good deal of time researching the subject, I run a business in the energy industry and it directly impacts my industry. As a result I'm very familiar with the carbon cycle and the natural sources of carbon sequestration, I'd be happy to engage in an in depth conversation...

I evaluate my strategies based on something at least somewhat rigorous like a Sharpe ratio (I actually prefer the Sortino ratio) which allows me to determine if I have alpha or I'm just the beneficiary of chance. There's picking up nickels in front of steamrollers and there's getting alpha...

And any fool can make $5,000 a week selling VIX calls and taking advantage of the inevitable decay of VIX futures, for months and months, until the week they get creamed and lose 10 years worth of that $5,000 a week all at once. You're right, the fact that someone made $X per week for a few...

Now you're starting to understand the basic concept that simply pissing in your pool only 4 times a day instead of the previous 5 isn't going to lead you to a clean pool or even a cleaner pool. Those folks in "ivory towers" you seem to think are a joke, I guess, have been telling us for many...

It's important to understand that GHG emissions are all additive. Meaning that at the end of 2020 we would have roughly the same amount of GHG in the atmosphere as at the beginning if zero GHG was emitted all year. But of course we continued to emit GHG in 2020, just not as much as in 2019. That...

It's in the prospectus, not their fault folks can't be bothered to read it. How, exactly, do you see this leading to big problems? Big problems from lending shares would require somehow shares couldn't be returned when requested by the lending entity. That eventuality would require the breakdown...