Victims of Hubris

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aeliodon

Jesse Livermore

Nick Leeson, jr.

Micheal Milken

LTCM

Victor Niederhoffer

Sowood Capital Management (a money market fund - lol)

Amaranth

MotherRock

Victor Niederhoffer (again)

International Management Associates LLC

Bayou Group

Eifuku Master Fund

Askin Capital Management





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Since two guys at my prop firm blew up this week, I just wanted to add two other more famous guys to this thread:


Nassim Taleb

Richard Dennis (Market Wizard)
 
Most prop traders don't have much capital up, so how much is a blow up? 4, 5, 6, 7 figures?

I guess technically, a blow up is losing most or all of your trading capital, but that can be a very small amount at a prop firm.
 
Milken was railroaded because he made too much money....never "blew-up"...

Bayou are just crooks....stole the money.....


SteveD
 
Milken was railroaded because he made too much money....never "blew-up"...

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Yes, look at what Milken did, let Ivan Bosk. park funds. He did not blow up. He made Drexel a lot of money. He was the fall guy.


Prop firms are a joke. The trader puts up 5k to trade 200k. The money is pooled. Props are dead. Period.
 
Famous Meltdowns?..........Orange County, Metalgeselshaft, Kidder Peabody, E.F. Hutton, the Hunt Brothers, Continental Bank and Salomon Brothers came close in 1991 to name a few.
 
Randolph and Mortimer Duke

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Quote from aeliodon:

Since two guys at my prop firm blew up this week, I just wanted to add two other more famous guys to this thread:


Nassim Taleb

Richard Dennis (Market Wizard)
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Nassim Taleb blew up? You sure? How reliable is your source? He blew up or did he actually bleed to death like he had predicted?
 
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