The sympathy pecking order is as follows: Homeless -> Trading own capital -> HF milking management fees off billions in AUM
The difference between trading one's own capital, versus managing assets with a hedge fund 2 & 20 scheme (or similar), is that the latter achieves...
His HLF short equity position is all covered now and transitioned to all puts as a final battle right? I think he said he won't talk about HLF in...
Yeah there are no rules on how low or high a stock can fall, but this fell under $5 because there were real fears of BK risk at the time due to...
That was a bull trap after a longer period of tapering and slowing of the bleed. And now it's way lower. And today this dog is free falling again.
Who works as the exchange? I mean, they may as well. Because right now CME is eating their lunch and have essentially full market share of all...
The only practical question that matters here is when are you backing up the truck? $16? $15? Can it go to $10 or lower?
Free fall mode. When's bottom? Discuss.
I'm no programmer but I thought Java is good because it is cross platform once the end user has a Java Engine installed, where parent Sun/Oracle...
I suppose you'd also suggest low cost ETFs and buy and hold? That works for high networth individuals or retirees looking for financial stability...
No, not many bears left. At least not rich ones. All forging the steaks and are on ham sandwich diets. Some people can't even log on. Others...
How much did you lose because of market data outage or problems with account access?
Exactly. For high networth individuals, who spread assets among different brokers, it's fine. If you want to be flat on an open position but...
Spoken as a bull. But for those other traders on the bearish side (few alive these days) say long the VIX or short the SPX, well they got smashed...
By user accounts, it had issues 1-2 hours before market closed. And then 10 min after it closed, it works again. The timing is quite something....
Couldn't login either before market closed. TWS, TWS mobile or webtrader.
Yeah, they only send out the automated message to clients who's daily stress test yielded excess risk and has negative equity when subjected to...
He means a lot of wealthy individuals who own stocks purchased near the lows and have a low cost base. FIFO accounting hurts people with low cost...
With the original FIFO rule, I honestly thought it would have made a strong case for year end sell off on the S&P. Just sell the long term buy and...
Any predictions on where the S&P will end the year? Also what price action do you expect post passing (pretty much guaranteed at this point) on...
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