Certainly, these funds do what they're intended to do: provide insurance in the time of exploding vol, e.g. to smoothen out the overall returns...
Difficult? They bet $6bln on long vol/tail setups. Seeing +10 to 20% days happens once or twice every market cycle (5-7 years) years. It's not...
@i960 You're assuming, you don't know. You assume because Taleb has a PHD and is on CNBC then surely he 'knows his stuff'. Why so gullible? No...
Yes Taleb has a PHD, wrote a book and appeared on CNBC, he really must know what he's doing. Just like the guys at LTCM. Here's another 'great...
Long volatility funds buy far OTM puts AND calls on a variety of assets: currencies, bonds, equity indexes, commodities (oil, gold). If there are...
These long volatility funds look nice on big spikey moves, but bleed out slowly over time in conventional market regimes. Maybe they made $1bln on...
How would Siegel's track record be if (hypothetically) he wasn't born in the US but in Japan? He'd tell us the same drivel "historically the...
Siegel is the biggest idiot in the game but he might be "right" on this one -- like any other broken clock.
Investable commodity indexes topped 2007, not 2011/2012. Rogers himself touted buying commodity future index linked ETFs -- investable...
Rogers is absolutely delusional. Investable commodities have been in a huge bear market since 2008 and Rogers has been bullish throughout the last...
I think you have it backwards. Your question should be "How did you transition from stupid huge risk on a small account to risking reasonably...
Just contact their sales departments and ask for quotes.
I am short a few EDEN at IB. Hard to borrow but they located shares after 1-2 days of waiting.
Also consider Greece already did have a staggering $100bln relief on their debt in 2010, when they promised all kinds of reforms. Yet here we are...
I think you're an tinfoil-hat wearing idiot. No one speculator can take down a currency or country unless there is some fundamental economic flaw...
US legal system is messed up big time . Female teachers get jail time for giving consensual BJs to 17 year old highschool kids -- and Corzine...
Interesting situation in some of the Chinese small caps. DATE and CMGE have offers pending but are getting crushed in the china crash. Interesting...
Speaking of getting lucky, nice bump in PNK today as bid was raised. Lose some, win some.
In general, yes. Deals with buyers who are A+ rated big Fortune 500 companies generate smaller yields than some shady Private Equity company no...
People are claiming the US is no different than Greece and they are clueless now as they were then.
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