He used to regularly post at his Trading Tribe FAQ for years. But now it seems he ceased doing that - the last post was on April 26th. No activity for 5 months.
He has had multi month breaks from posting on his FAQ site before. I hope he is in good health, he still only 72 years of age.
Everyone seems to have liked his interview in MW, and so I visited his site several years ago. Some of his comments were interesting and amusing. Many were witty non-answers. Not to take away from his impressive accomplishments in the markets, but I think he may have gotten caught up in his own mystique.
Trading seems inherently "harder" to reconcile with a deeply spiritual life than say, making pottery or farming.
He is a Libertarian that doesn't understand the profound irony of declaring bankruptcy. He moved to a little house outside of Austin, TX.
He lives in Austin TX. Perhaps you've heard of Google? https://www.google.com/search?q=ed+...rome..69i57.4623j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
The move to TX appears to be accurate, but I've only seen a few individuals in trading forums allege that he went bankrupt, with no corroborating evidence aside from mention of a tax lien filing. (There was a fairly long thread in here that veered off about that, but with no apparent resolution.) You'd think there'd be a huge amount of information out there related to a bankruptcy, if true. Not looking to argue the point, because I have no direct knowledge either way -- but interested because I have long looked up to him as a "market wizard."
If Seykota made a verbal agreement with a friend which the law recognizes, how come the law doesn't recognize a verbal disagreement?
If anything the more dirt you try to find on Ed Sekota the more it proves what a badass trader he was - like his court trial where he had to pay 25% of his 1999 profit of $10,000,000 to some lady claiming to have partnered with him to run the admin side of a hedge fund. https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-vid-3_02-cv-00134/pdf/USCOURTS-vid-3_02-cv-00134-4.pdf