Even really smart people fell for Madoff scheme

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by nitro, Jun 29, 2009.

  1. nitro

    nitro

    #21     Aug 3, 2011
  2. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Greed? Maybe Gordon Gekko was wrong.

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    #22     Aug 3, 2011
  3. nitro

    nitro

    #23     Nov 13, 2011
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    The author of this book lost his personal fortune to madoff. He was working on this book for ten years. Perhaps he should have put down his pencil and smelled the coffee or to put it another way maybe he shoould have sharpened his pencil on investments.

    Secondly, I read recently a former sec attorney lost his money to madoff. Oh the irony.

    Thirdly, Charles Ponzi is the role model not for madoff but central bankers. just a guess here though....:cool: :D :D
     
    #24     Nov 13, 2011
  5. Actually, yes, the SEC in every way, shape, and form with regard to madoff was <b>"COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT" and if you don't like "COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT" HOW ABOUT "WAS <i>ALWAYS</i> OUT TO LUNCH?"</b>
     
    #25     Nov 13, 2011
  6. Well any participant would have lost money anyway and with clawbacks the fact that the fund overrode this hero that fund still will face heavy civil penalties if they profited from the ponzi scheme and basically this means if you got ANY MONEY BACK, then you're probably looking at it as you're still going to lose everything through the judicial process of the Trustee who will sue you for the amounts you may have "profited." That is, under the circumstances recieving any amounts from this man means you profited so any investors who left probably will not have any money either because it unfairly punishes the duped who stayed and the duped who left will still be the duped but they might have done other things with their money after they left.
     
    #26     Nov 13, 2011
  7. nitro

    nitro

    #27     Jan 5, 2012
  8. Do you have 5 sentences ready for P=NP, yet?

    Why do you never say a complete thought when you post, nitro?

    It's really annoying.

    Well, there's a rumor he only had 22 clients personally himself, and they found billions, so at least those 22 people will get back some hefty cash.
     
    #28     Jan 5, 2012
  9. before piles of money, everyone is vulnerable.
    some people said "love is blind", the same applies to money.

    so in trading, this is the Number one reason people frauded themseves. when they should cut loss, they stubborn hold;when they should not book profit, they are too scared to let the profit evoporate and take a little profit and run.

    never think about money, if you do not see money, you will be more objective, so you will be smarter.

    the more you think about money, the more dumber you are.
     
    #29     Jan 6, 2012
  10. It's emotional if you do think about money without objectivity. You can think about money, risk management, your strategies, and I guarantee it won't make you dumber.
     
    #30     Jan 6, 2012