I know of Victor Niederhoffer (twice); Amaranth Capital, James Cordier and Options Sellers.com, and, of course, LTC with John Meriwether. Any others of relatively recent renown (not looking for Jesse Livermores), excluding crooks like Nick Leeson. Thanks in advance.
Huge volatility fund losses in Feb 2018 volmageddon: https://www.google.com/search?q=XIV+investor+lost&tbm=nws https://www.google.com/search?q=volmageddon
More specific example from volmageddon, LJM Partners: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...l-mageddon-losses-in-u-s-stocks-idUSKCN1GC29H
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trading_losses One of my mentors (David Ellis, a monster S&P futures trader) was sued by George Soros (suit was tossed).
lol, that was a preview of what 2020 will be like: https://www.institutionalinvestor.c...-Lose-a-Billion-Dollars-Without-Really-Trying My favorite quote is “Someone YOLO’d a pension fund.”
It can get worse : you lose 1,000% of your account for example, meaning you now owe 9 times your margin money to your broker.
Buffet and Soros lose billions from time to time too, but somehow these losses do not get that much publicity. For instance this year alone Buffet lost 50 billions: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/02/war...loss-of-nearly-50-billion-on-coronavirus.html (That's a lot of cheeseburgers if you ask me.)