Frankly, I doubt very much that you often turn down review requests as you say you do. The fact that you praised Covel's book and then turned around and said it was full of shit ("fatally flawed") tells me that you will attach your name to anything that moves. Or doesn't. I defy you to give me the name of one published book that you refused to review after being asked to do so. And what's wrong with disclosing such information anyway? Are you a legitimate book critic or a cheerleader/shill? Further, I can't imagine how bad those books must have been for which you supposedly turned down review requests. Hell, you give glowing reviews for "fatally flawed" books! If you could extend your "professional courtesy" to the authors of "fatally flawed" books, then one can only imagine what you flatly refuse to endorse. The mind boggles.
I only met him for a short while, so may be wrong, but to what extent is Niederhoffer retired? He seemed like quite a workaholic to me, and I have a hard time picturing him handing over total control.
can we take a step back here... has anything been substantiated that VN in any way blew up recently? other than a fair bit of arguments & name calling on this thread, I haven't seen any facts or even very convincing 2nd hand information until I see any evidence, I'll give the benefit of the doubt to Vic surviving. He should be at new fund highs now since any puts he wrote at the summer lows would have been at a very high vol...
Niederhoffer is likely the most honest man who ever worked the street at a high level. The concessions made for prior clients among many other acts of kindness elevate Victor ot a level seldom seen on the street. Victory to Victor! BB
Why the big mystery on VN's performance and/or possible blowup in August? Wouldn't his data be shown by now by the many PAID hedge fund tracking services that exist? Doesn't anyone on this board have access to same? (I do not.) My understanding is that hedge funds that elect to report to the hedge fund tracking services have to do so monthly. Of course, it is also possible that VN has chosen to NOT report. At any rate, by this time some hard data should be available somewhere, unless VN is stronewalling. I respect Pabst and other solid posters on ET, and I am mystified as to why we need to wait for a Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg reporter to ferrett out the facts. By now every fund of hedge funds operator worldwide must have the data down cold. Your thoughts?
Timmay Sykes says one unique advantage for hedge fund managers is to exclude particularly bad trades..... Timmay say he make whole lot o money if you ignore bad trades (that what timmay dvd say)....
New Post 10-04-07 08:00 PM Reporting is voluntary... the operator pays a fee to be tracked. Matador stopped reporting in 2006. Thanks, Atticus But I'll still bet that every FOHF operator worldwide has the story down cold.