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''If you put a thousand people in barrels and push them over Niagara Falls, some of them will survive. And if you take those guys and push them over again, some of them will survive. And then they’ll write books about how to survive being pushed ...

personal blog entry - GordonGekko - 2007-12-07 20:32 - 1 comment

US$ hedging stategy: VI (the Google strategy)

As I was reading an interview with Jim Rogers I was reminded of another hedging strategy commonly employed by hedge funds.  The long/short strategy, which requires that an investor place equal long and short positions in different investments.  T ...

personal blog entry - sharpsicle - 2006-02-14 02:18 - 2 comments

New ideas and new weapons

Its time to change my mind models and weapons.What do I mean? Behind every portfolio is a strategy and for different battle you have different strategy . Lets have a look at Dorfman portfolio : You can see it as : 1.list of independent stock ...

personal blog entry - GordonGekko - 2007-11-22 02:53 - 0 comments

Oil back to $45 !!!! Blood bath is coming !!!!

Interview with Mike Rothman from Barrons article: Where is the oil heading. Mike Rothman is head of integrated oil research of the ISI Group, an economic research and investment-strategy firm based in Manhattan. A regular at OPEC meetings sin ...

personal blog entry - GordonGekko - 2007-09-19 17:54 - 2 comments

Billionaire Money Managers

Ever wonder how much you can make investing other people's money?  Well here's a list of 36 stellar money managers whom are also billionaires.  Produce superior returns and you will be well rewarded.  These managers each made their for ...

personal blog entry - Theo - 2005-12-01 00:29 - 0 comments

Midyear Barrons Roundtable

,, I'm also a big fan of natural gas at current prices, around $7.50 per million Btu. There have been production cuts in Canada, and about 10% of U.S. natural-gas fields have been depleted. The supply side is going to tighten up, and inventory levels are ...

personal blog entry - GordonGekko - 2007-06-22 00:25 - 8 comments

Calling All Investors: Fire Sale Prices on Your Favorite Quality Stocks

My biggest pet peeve is the parrots on CNBC reciting news that the market has already digested. It seems as though they exist for instilling fear in investors to get ratings, and with any market shock, they sure definitely get an increase of viewers to ...

personal blog entry - thefinancialwhiz - 2007-08-05 23:34 - 3 comments

Amaranth Founder Maounis to Start New Multistrategy Hedge Fund

How is it that these guys can always raise money after blowing themselves up ? ...

personal blog entry - Theo - 2008-05-11 20:49 - 0 comments

Egypt announces plans to build nuclear plants

From the CBC : Egypt's president announced plans Monday to build several nuclear power plants — the latest in a string of such proposals from moderate Arab countries. The United States immediately welcomed the plan, in sharp contrast to ...

personal blog entry - Theo - 2007-10-29 22:40 - 0 comments

Why Gold?

A lot of people seem to think the gold standard was either random or unnecessary.  But alas it was not.  James Turk, in his writings , explains why we use gold as money and how currencies came to be: In accounting terms, money is a ...

personal blog entry - Theo - 2006-10-29 23:35 - 2 comments

Is silver the next gold?

While gold is being focused at this moment and gold stocks have appreciated in prices fantastically silver has not performed as well. When I first thought of investing, silver was obviously my second choice than gold because we regard it as a metal that ...

personal blog entry - YY - 2006-07-12 22:39 - 11 comments

ABSOLUTE RETURN AWARDS 2008 - FINAL NOMINATIONS

U.S EQUITY Pershing Square International Sprott Hedge Fund Zweig-DiMenna International GLOBAL EQUITY Glenrock Global Partners Goshen Global Equity Passport I Viking Global Equities III EQUITY SECTOR FUNDS BlackRock Hea ...

personal blog entry - pelcmarek - 2008-11-06 18:55 - 2 comments

Soaring food costs threaten world's political stability

From CBC : Rising food prices could cause political instability worldwide, the UN's top humanitarian official said Tuesday, as clashes over food costs in Haiti and Egypt continued for a second day. Pointing to a 40 per cent average rise in food ...

personal blog entry - Theo - 2008-04-10 18:10 - 0 comments

Stanislav Ivanov, Ph.D

I admire top performing hedge funds,but when the hedge fund has a simple strategy and is willing to give detailed explanation of its strategy, I like it even more. Performance: 29.46% annually. http://www.ljmpartners.com/content/history. ...

personal blog entry - GordonGekko - 2007-07-16 19:35 - 10 comments

Barron's Roundtable 2007: Apache Corporation (APA)

Scott Black's analysis of Apache Corporation ( APA ) makes me second-guess why I sold the stock.  He estimates the break-up of the company at $89: Black : I can't find low-P/E paintings anymore. They don't exist. To reiterate Meryl's c ...

personal blog entry - Theo - 2007-02-02 01:28 - 3 comments