Quote from crgarcia:
Why Madoff didn't (at least) tried a passive strategy, like buy-and-hold, covered-calls, etc?
He would had got market results, (and maybe an excuse for the losses: "hey, the market plunged 50%, with our 2:1 leverage this was disastrous").
Do you have to insult?Quote from el pollo:
Madoff did not invest or trade the funds in the account!
GOOGLE Ponzi you 1/2 wit.
Quote from crgarcia:
Do you have to insult?
How far will you get in life if you can't sustain a decent conversation without insulting?
Will you ever be able to get a partner? Run a company? Even get a job? without insulting.
And yes, he didn't invest at all (in his later stages).
Why he didn't invest?
Even if he invested into something like T-Bonds that paid out about half his customers interest paments, he would get time, and he would not be broke and in prison.
This is the point of this thread.
Quote from crgarcia:
Why Madoff didn't (at least) tried a passive strategy, like buy-and-hold, covered-calls, etc?
Quote from academic:
Google "ponzi".
He wanted to attract investors by paying extraordinary high returns. Investing the funds was not his objective. Even if he had invested the money before the crash, he would not have been able to use this as an explanation for the losses, because the returns he had been giving to people were not real.