Did Niederhoffer Lie To Baron?

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Pa(b)st Prime

A few weeks back I started a thread based on information I received about Vic Niederhoffer blowing up his Matador Fund in the day's before August Opex. I made no claim to the accuracy of my source although it was someone with ties to Vic's operation. He had no axe to grind. Even as an alias on a message board I wouldn't ipso facto print information about someone real if I thought the charge was bogus.

The thread was a viewership success. 12,000 hits it's first day. Vic's posse, including Marketsurfer, after a dozen denials, finally admitted that Vic took a body blow. Alas the thread was deleted by Baron. In a subsequent Feedback thread Baron explained his decision.

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=102468

Today I received more information. The WSJ is working on a Vic story. Key elements: Matador has lost 93% of it's funds. Vic's clearing house forced liquidation of his position. Vic was short 15,000 Mch08 1000puts. Vic is in "hiding" somewhere in NYC.

Remember this story broke on Elite Trader!
 
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A few weeks back I started a thread based on information I received about Vic Niederhoffer blowing up his Matador Fund in the day's before July Opex. I made no claim to the accuracy of my source although it was someone with ties to Vic's operation. He had no axe to grind. Even as an alias on a message board I wouldn't ipso facto print information about someone real if I thought the charge was bogus.

The thread was a viewership success. 12,000 hits it's first day. Vic's posse, including Marketsurfer, after a dozen denials, finally admitted that Vic took a body blow. Alas the thread was deleted by Baron. In a subsequent Feedback thread Baron explained his decision.

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=102468

Today I received more information. The WSJ is working on a Vic story. Key elements: Matador has lost 93% of it's funds. Vic's clearing house forced liquidation of his position. Vic was short 15,000 Mch08 1000puts. Vic is in "hiding" somewhere in NYC.

Remember this story broke on Elite Trader!
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As Deep Throat said to Woodward and Bernstein, "Follow the Money"
 
Don't you mean August expiration? The options expiration in July was fairly uneventful and the S&P was still above 1500, I don't think even Vic could have blown up then with those 15,000 S&P 500 puts.
 
Yeah doesn't make sense. My guess the max he lost on that position is $1-1.5 Million.

I don't know the size of the fund, but I'm guessing its not that small.
 
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