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News that Moves: Increase in U.S. Gov’t Debt Limit, German Bond Auction Failure, U.K. Banking Bill

RCM Comment: Welcome to the wonderful world of inflation. While on this ride please keep your hands inside the cart at all times. The exhibits below will give you a glimpse into the enormity of the worldwide situation. This ride is speeding up, so please hold on to the bar. You will notice that the bar I am referring to […]

Michael Lewis: Moneyball – Basketball Style (Why investors should heed the lessons of probability)

As a North Carolina Tarheels basketball fan, it pains me to say, “I like Shane Battier.”  After reading another great article by Michael Lewis in the New York Times titled “The No Stats All-Star” I recognize his skills of making his team better and it helps explains some of the losses he handed my beloved Heels during his reign at […]

RCM Editorial: Obama’s Budget Proposal: Sensible or Senseless?

I’m at 36,000 feet and on my way home after an epic snowboarding trip to Vail, Colorado. I have spent the last 4 days knee deep in fresh powder shredding the back bowls, but a thought has been tugging on my mind. Much to my chagrin, I have been unable to mollify this sinking feeling that our country is being […]

10 Major Reasons Traders Fail

We hear staggering statistics that approximately 95% of traders fail in their ability to consistently profit from the markets. What are the 10 major mistakes that these traders make that cost them dearly? Having no trading plan When you don’t have a plan, you don’t have a template to follow. It becomes very costly when your emotions are high and […]

Everything is new at the Hedge Fund Calculator!

Happy Monday! I’m writing a quick note to discuss some great new changes that we’ve made to the Hedge Fund Calculator. First a bit of background on the Hedge Fund Calculator. The Hedge Fund Calculator was initially developed in 2004 as a stand-alone desktop application. This initial version of the calculator did fairly well and gave managers a simple tool […]

RCM Editorial: Changing the Rules of the Game with the Stroke of a Pen

Comments by Gary Rosenthal: It has come to our attention that a piece of legislation traveling through Congress contains a little known section that would retroactively render naked Credit Default Swaps(CDS) unenforceable. In other words, with the stroke of a pen Congress would make contracts previously entered into by two willing parties unenforceable. On what legal grounds can Congress do […]

50 Awesome Social Networking Sites for Finance Geeks

I ran into this interesting list of great sites for finance geeks, one day soon HedgeCo.Net will be on this list 😉 Tip’d. By participating in this social network, you will get the latest in finance, business, and investing through news, tips, articles, and connection with other members. Vote for which content goes on the homepage and even submit articles […]

RCM Editorial: The Condition is Called Complacency

I have been asked the same question repeatedly over the last few weeks. In fact, what began as a seemingly innocuous trickle has turned into a deluge of disillusionment and despair. So often now have I fielded this question that the time has come to dissect and reveal its true destructive force on a portfolio. The offending question is often […]

Updates on the Wharton Hedge Fund Conference

The First Annual Wharton Hedge Fund Conference was held at the Jon M. Huntsman Hall in Philadelphia. The Wharton Hedge Fund Conference is the first major conference hosted by a university to focus exclusively on the hedge fund industry.  Seeking Alpha as a couple blog entries that go into detail of the one-day conference and the various speakers. Keynote speaker Marc Lasry: Hedge […]

News that Moves: Jim Sinclair on Geithner, The Fallacy of US$ Strength, Trouble for the British Pound, CDSs on US Treas. Debt

Jim Sinclair: On Geithner… During testimony on his nomination, when Secretary of the Treasury Geithner was asked about errors made in the Great Depression, he replied: There were two:1. Monetary stimulation ended too soon.2. Heed was not taken of the dollar foreign exchange position. Think hard on the implications of both these points. The dollar rose into the Great Depression, […]