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If you have the option to goto cash, that's always giving you 0.4% a month without any headaches and 200 point swings in 15 minutes. This is not the time to guess, it's time to protect your capital. Money making times on the long side will come back, maybe after a Fed bailout (1998 style) or...

After being killed for 3 weeks straight. So much for a huge bounce!

Market Neutral Hedge Funds usually trade equities... common stocks.

S2007S, why do you still watch CNBC?

Kinda ironic how the CNBC cheerleaders were on the NYSE floor before the open and said "Well the futures look bad, but there is no feel of panic here on the floor. It really looks like we could close in the green". haha So much for that.

Or just goto cash, earn 0.4% every month, and let this market find itself. In a couple weeks, months or a year or so we'll (probably) be back to "normal". However, normal doesn't necessarily mean we're back in a bull market, just less minute to minute volatility. This won't keep up forever...

Buy some deep in the money puts on a bounce towards the Moving Averages. Then, when it gets killed again and feels deeply oversold buy common stock to "hedge" the puts. When it moves back to the MAs, sell the common at a profit and keep the puts. Another good ETF to watch is RKH (regional...

Forced liquidation in market neutral funds would explain a lot of seemingly "random" moves in many issues you can see across the board. A lot of issues with reasonable prices and "good" numbers (by quant metrics) down 10%, 15%, 18% a day... on no news and on below average volume (i.e. no...

Interesting Tykhe is getting hit. They had an amazing three year track record. I believe MAN GROUP seeded them with a lot of capital.

BULLISH BEAR NEW PREZ NEEDS TO GROW CAPITAL BASE August 8, 2007 -- Bear Stearns might have a new president in Alan Schwartz who can rally the troops after a series of humiliating miscues and snafus, but the firm's hope of recovery rests on its vulnerable and modest capital base. A firm...

Stay tuned for August 15, as the Journal notes: This could lead to redemptions in big funds that could drag us down a notch, depending on who these funds were positioned.

The ironic part is... Many quant managers were complaining about the lack of market volatility and how their models perform much better when we have more pronounced price swings. Shouldn't they love the current environment? :D

Goldman Denies Global Alpha Liquidation Rumors August 7, 2007 Goldman Sachs denies that it is liquidating its troubled flagship hedge fund, Global Alpha. The Wall Street giant is seeking to squelch today's market rumors that it would be shuttering the once high-flying $10 billion fund...

Yea you're right every once in a while, kind of like the broken clock you always rub into the face of the perma bears that predict market crashes every day.

Jesus you have to open 500 threads for your "thoughts", Mr. Obvious?

A large percentage of the capital in Alpha comes from GS partners themselves. So they're bleeding just as bad.

Whats "large" for IB? 10k in monthly commissions? 50k? 100k? more?

ES trading at 1438 now on my screen, down 0.3% from Friday night.

LOL I'm shaking!

When you start arguing how the market is "overreacting" and has become "irrational" then it pretty much means you're trading against the market. Rarely a good idea.