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But if you are truly an investor, the price of XYZ corp gyrating around the line fundamentals would generate doesn't matter a whit. This is just one set of aholes ripping off others. In the meantime they provide liquidity you might need and narrow the trading spread.
Now if you have money invested in a hedge fund and these dicks are spoofing their report cards to generate larger bonus payments than reality would give, you are being robbed. But if you are a hedge fund investor, then you should know the people you are dealing with are probably dicks and factor that into your decision to invest money with them. And this is why to get into a hedge fund you have to prove you are a sophisticated investor.
You can't cheat an honest man very easily. Reaching for well above market returns is a sure sign of greed. Risk/Reward. there are no free lunches.
Aren't you pissed off by watching Cramer on the You tube clip. I am.
Personally it does not undermine my confidence in the markets--but i just don't like the image it gives to others. It's a market confidence thing , isn't it.?
Google Vitol, Trafigura, Marc Rich, Clarendon, Vanol and see the kind of crap these people are accused of around the world. These were my counterparties.
"never let them see you sweat"
and it's true. If the others smell weakness they gain the confidence needed to perhaps break you. No single player is bigger than the markets as the Hunts found out.
Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
If you have ever had to be around the real Cramer type speculators you'll find that most of the truly successful ones will gamble on anything, are utterly amoral about how they make money and really don't much care if others get hurt. That's my experience.
I admit I've never dealt with people at pure quant shops -- since they don't deal with people and let the models do the talking. The truly successful ones there just keep their mouths shut and hope no one notices their actions and succeeds in reverse engineering their models. The best geek on our desk was one of the nicest humans you could ever meet. Incredibly smart and grounded. Made partner and therefore got extremely rich. Well deserved compared to some of his peers.
As for long term investors, they are neither suckers nor aholes. Just folks put some assets at risk in hopes of a return.
Day traders who think they can beat the system operating from home? 80%+ suckers. And these are Cramer's Cramerica.
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