ET Hall of Fame Threads

[shortie]

Bill, is 87 the reason you don't like to trade on Fridays?

actually, i have a million Qs, if there is a Q&A thread i promise to contribute.

Scholar Shortie Out

 

[benwm]

Quote from William Rennick:

I would have lost everything were it not for a pork belly position that survived.

I guess you would have a soft spot for pork bellies after that.
Short pork bellies? I presume there was liquidation in commodities..
Q+A thread would be cool, "Recollections of 87 Crash", or something similar.

 

[BCE]

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-flash08.html?project=CRASH87 Click on the first upper left dot and then click next or previous to go through the sequence. Wasn't involved in the markets then. Along with a lot of other people a former girlfriend of mine lost several hundred thousand dollars and was wiped out. Fortunately for her, her mother is a multimillionaire, close friend of Henry Paulson's, so she was okay. My Dad was a multithousandaire so good thing I wasn't involved.

WSJ article on Black Monday http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119254863871060654.html

And the Pulizer Prize winning story: Terrible Tuesday http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119256599114260941.html

 

[BCE]

Started a new thread on Black Monday here http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=205117

 

[GekkoToBe]

Quote from benwm:
48 Acrary's Strategy Formation & Acrary's Mixed Strategy Management
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84891
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84890

Not sure what's so special about these above two threads but the one below is very special and should be included.

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=33654&perpage=6&pagenumber=1

 

[BCE]

Quote from GekkoToBe:

Not sure what's so special about these above two threads but the one below is very special and should be included.

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=33654&perpage=6&pagenumber=1

Thanks for sharing this. I'll have to get into it as I have time. Looks interesting.

 

[benwm]

Quote from GekkoToBe:

Not sure what's so special about these above two threads but the one below is very special and should be included.

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=33654&perpage=6&pagenumber=1

This is already in the list (number 7 under Journals)

Thanks in any case for sharing.

 

[jOllie]

Wasn't acrary outed for being a fraud?

Isn't he really a truck driver who liked to make up storieson the Internet and all the sheeple followed him before the truth came out?

 

[benwm]

Quote from jOllie:

Wasn't acrary outed for being a fraud?

Isn't he really a truck driver who liked to make up storieson the Internet and all the sheeple followed him before the truth came out?

I think you've got him confused with someone else. Or else he's a pretty smart truck driver.

 

[BCE]

Quote from jOllie:

Wasn't acrary outed for being a fraud?

Isn't he really a truck driver who liked to make up storieson the Internet and all the sheeple followed him before the truth came out?

Is this the Ameritrade truck driving day trader who bought an island with his winnings which he displayed a picture of hanging on his rear view mirror? Remember that commercial? It was funny. I looked for it online a while ago but couldn't find it. Then there was Stewart.