ET Hall of Fame Threads

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

Thanks in any case for sharing.

 

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.

 

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.