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The only hedge fund who owned it in any large numbers ( $1 million I think) according to visit to SEC.gov is Moore Capital. DENDREON CORP COM STK COMMON STOCK 24823Q107 1251 300000 SH You won't find anyone with any else unless they came in between Feb.14 and March...

I agree, same experience as Jake. I think hes busy lately though, hasnt gotten back to me in about a 2 months.

Mr. Zaffaronis dream paid off once again

Leeson wrote a book in 2005 called "back from the brink -coping with stress" regarding his time in prison and his diagnosis of Cancer. Was written jointly with himself and a well known psychologist in the UK.

Still waiting for mine via Amazon

Why compare a fund with a $25k minimum to a fund with a $5-10 million minimum? I am speaking of Quadriga versus Man or Winton.

Great posts Spectre! Are you liquid right now? What about going liquid now and buying the market on the 19th before the fed meeting provided the market continues to fall between now and the 19th? Thanks

I heard they did a survey on Wall Street recently and something like 90% of the people surveyed had no idea what a carry trade is. I'm guessing its not over.

be well capitalized have a system have a backup plan read the EMyth

3*stdev(C,10) for end of day.

Read it, everything said by the reviewer is correct. The funniest part is Biggs elaborate fundamentalist justification of his oil short back in 2003 or early 2004. Lost them a bundle.

maybe you can sit next to brian hunter if your lucky.

CSC + national bank = you making money on FX

there is 100 x times more CDS in circulation than the net worth of the worlds stock markets. I heard you can strip off a cds and sell part of it leveraged to somebody else, basically leveraging the trade 10-100 fold. It's common with the automakers right now. Traders can even sell it back to...

CDS in home builders would be nice. Where does the average guy get access to bona fide cds though? I dont think joe average can buy them. Anyone who knows if it's possible to be retail and buy cds, please tell.

Try this guy, hes in Vancouver, but reasonable, works remote anyways: His name is Steve Zhang. I had him hook up a system a while back using the Amibroker - IB interface. I put the project on the backburner, but Steve knows what hes doing. Just be sure to tell him exactly what you...

wish i was there

Private equity and Investment bankers push all these deals. Investors who are already in the stock love it. I wouldnt get in the way of it. Woody Dorsey is bang on the money with this type of mass thinking in the Markets today. His book is the bible of real life behavorial finance. Very much...

Ran an old backtest from 2001 to now. Biggest trade on the system was SID. Made about 1000% on it in 6 years.

why not buy long-term OTM Put options on the worst stocks in the sectors you've bought? Cheap insurance, rather than holding on to a futures position.