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    Trend Follower John Henry Assets Drop 80% In Year!!!

    This evades the fact that Steve Cohen, Druckenmiller, Lescarbeau... etc don't discuss their strategies with anyone anyways.
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    Long and Short at the same time

    With equities, doing it is illegal. The only way it could work is in some kind of launder game.
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    Long and Short at the same time

    what if you just buy or sell a different contract month? Just a thought.
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    Trend Follower John Henry Assets Drop 80% In Year!!!

    Anyone know what happened to Lescarbeau?
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    Trend Follower John Henry Assets Drop 80% In Year!!!

    Why would you bother with that when you'd have to pay a management fee and a performance fee in the event that they were right? .... unless your implying that the funds holders are the ones being hosed by participating alongside them in such a game... then their might be a slight edge in the...
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    SBUX - Just bought 100 contracts June 30 Calls at $0.50

    Its very cheap insurance to go short. As for long, thats another thing altogether.
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    How do Hedge Funds get around the 90% Failure Rate?

    One of the key things here missing is training. They hire the best and train them to be the best.
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    SBUX - Just bought 100 contracts June 30 Calls at $0.50

    talk about bottom picking
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    Malta

    I'm pretty sure the Medallion Fund of Jim simons is registered in Malta for tax purposes, though I'm sure they don't run any trades through there.
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    Bought $65 ATM Puts on Celgene

    ASCO isn't that secretive anymore - Adam Feuerstein at The Street has always been 100% open about what it says. Read saturday's blog posting he goes into details about why he lets the public know about what is going on with various trials....
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    Lake Tahoe night sky

    I'll settle a look at atticus' portfolio to be moved.
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    Where to find out the current holdings by the famous fund managers like buffet?

    http://stockpickr.com/members/port/Warren-Buffett/
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    Lake Tahoe night sky

    Is that Ed Seykota howling in the distance?
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    Iron Condor

    Oddly enough, some "trader" recently got my home number and was trying to sell me on the benefits of an iron condor "strategy". He said buying options is a suckers game... and that they work with high net worth individuals... a traders edge they were called. Probably got my name through some...
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    Could this guy be a top trader?

    I have the book he cowrote. Wondered the same thing. He can "see" numbers like shapes which creates a final shape in his mind which he can evaluate as a number of large length. He memorized PI to 20000 digits and said it outloud in an attempt to gain donations for autism. The book is...
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    Blaise Pascal

    Is there such thing as simply trading through the liquidity of an option series? Something along those lines would work with a voting system idea I'm trying to figure out.
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    Blaise Pascal

    Isn't modern options more of a voting system than anything else, with the smartest options pricings taking advantage of this voting system in a way that for example, Black Scholes uses current Market prices to price options? Therefore any concerns about probablility would instead be resolved...
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    Why does DNA Suck?

    haha, we have another Ed Seykota here.
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    Why does DNA Suck?

    Amgen is gonna lose 30% of its earnings on Aranesp thanks to Medicare.... Thats why its fallen so much.
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