Quote from Chuck Krug:
strange nobody picked up on the last paragraph.
that's because there are no successful prop traders out there smart enough to pull something like this off.
you're all a bunch of arrogant pricks thinking you're smarter than the collective mind of the market.
in theory you put the top 300 pirates together and you'd have order, not chaos in the markets because they would set the tone, not some sleazy bank ceo lying his ass off to congress to protect his golden parachute.
and not retail. this is real money, leveraged the same as any hedge fund, leveraged the same as pnc is backing blackrock, same leverage goldman sachs is getting to jack it's stock price up to cover its partners' margin calls.
find 300 guys with two decades under their belts and the battle scars to prove it, arm them with enough capital to swing the market in whatever direction they wanted, define the rules of engagement without being in violation of sec rules, and then you'd have a game.
in practice, however, you'd have 300 egomaniacs running around arguing they were right and everyone else was wrong, thus proving no one knows what the hell they're doing.
maybe someone should form a group of spartans (it was a metaphor, stupid) and take down the billionaires (warren buffett leaps to mind) and the greed monger SACs of the world so we can stack them like cordwood on the front lawn of the white house as a trophy for the millions of good, honest, hardworking people all over the world whose lives have been destroyed by wall street greed.
i was just wondering if anyone else out there actually believed the little guy could defeat goliath.
apparently not.
god bless america.
rb.