Comments on: Hedge Fund Profits Go Up In Smoke http://livingoffdividends.com/2006/09/22/hedge-fund-profits-go-up-in-smoke/ Join me on my journey to achieve financial independence through dividends, passive income and investments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:31:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: mOOm http://livingoffdividends.com/2006/09/22/hedge-fund-profits-go-up-in-smoke/comment-page-1/#comment-346 mOOm Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:36:00 +0000 http://www.livingoffdividends.com/2006/09/22/hedge-fund-profits-go-up-in-smoke/#comment-346 He was trading spreads between different months natural gas futures and then they went the opposite direction to what he expected.<br/><br/>Some of the people in high school who seemed even smarter than me :) one became a social worker after getting a chemical engineering degree from Cambridge U. and a couple of others went into medicine. Another guy was working at the National Physical Laboratory last time I knew. He was te kind of guy who looked dumb rather than smart but was great at math. <br/><br/>Though not sure what Stealthbucks point is. He was trading spreads between different months natural gas futures and then they went the opposite direction to what he expected.

Some of the people in high school who seemed even smarter than me :) one became a social worker after getting a chemical engineering degree from Cambridge U. and a couple of others went into medicine. Another guy was working at the National Physical Laboratory last time I knew. He was te kind of guy who looked dumb rather than smart but was great at math.

Though not sure what Stealthbucks point is.

]]> By: StealthBucks http://livingoffdividends.com/2006/09/22/hedge-fund-profits-go-up-in-smoke/comment-page-1/#comment-345 StealthBucks Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:22:00 +0000 http://www.livingoffdividends.com/2006/09/22/hedge-fund-profits-go-up-in-smoke/#comment-345 Noticed your comments... Not bizzare, helpful dare I say.... normal and good. Here is a bit of advice. If the prospectus is more than a half inch thick...... Don't buy it. How thick do you think Amaranths was????<br/><br/>Put it another way, with rare exception... Where is the smartest kid you ever knew in high school???? Is he rich beyond belief or off babbling in a corner writing code???? <br/><br/>KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) has worked for me. Also, how does a Convertible Bond Spread Hedger bet the farm on natural gas? I suppose a prospectus doesn't really answer that either...; Noticed your comments… Not bizzare, helpful dare I say…. normal and good. Here is a bit of advice. If the prospectus is more than a half inch thick…… Don’t buy it. How thick do you think Amaranths was????

Put it another way, with rare exception… Where is the smartest kid you ever knew in high school???? Is he rich beyond belief or off babbling in a corner writing code????

KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) has worked for me. Also, how does a Convertible Bond Spread Hedger bet the farm on natural gas? I suppose a prospectus doesn’t really answer that either…;

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