Posted by guest , Oct 31, 2008 6:17PM

"Fuh...What???????"

~Fake Geico Caveman

Posted by guest , Oct 31, 2008 6:45PM

Using a mutual fund that trades only at end of day! Who says one cannot time the maket?

Sell at the top:

http://financialtraders.blogspot.com/2008/10/retirement-account-financials-eft-xlf.html

Buy at bottom (5 trading days earlier):

http://financialtraders.blogspot.com/2008/10/24-hour-instant-dividends-for.html

Posted by guest , Oct 31, 2008 7:28PM

Who's sucking you?

These guys are brokers, not traders. How many people can be paid fees for that JOB before all of the stupid fuckers who allocate for FoFs get fired for being the moron scum that they are?

The L in Losers can't fit this space!

October 2008

Global Advisors, a commodity hedge fund manager, said Wednesday it would close two of its three funds due to "poor performance" that prompted investor redemptions, the latest commodity funds to belly up.

London-based Global Advisors, which previously managed about $140 million, said it would close the $60 million Global Advisors Commodity Investment fund and the $5 million Global Commodity Index Plus fund and return money to investors by Sept. 30.

Daniel Masters, a co-founder of the firm, said the funds faced a steady performance erosion over the last 18 months, but said the closings were not due to investment in any one commodity. They specialized in energy and metals investment.

"It's just been a steady drawdown for 18 months," said Masters in a telephone interview from his New York office.

The folding of the funds comes after other commodity funds, notably Amaranth Advisors LP and MotherRock LP, shut down after poor performance in 2006. Both those funds were much larger, however.

The firm is keeping open a third quantitative investment strategy called Global Commodity Systematic that has returned an estimated 15 percent per year for 2005 and 2006. But the strategy erased gains in 2007, leaving it basically flat for the year through August, said Masters.

"August was a bad month for sure," said Masters. The strategy includes both a fund and separately managed accounts.

"We are returning funds to our investors in two of our fund products," the company said in a statement. "Poor performance and external investor redemptions are the reasons for our decision."

Global Advisors also said it is considering expanding its joint venture with IPM Informed Portfolio Management, an investment manager based in Stockholm with some $8 billion in hedge fund assets. It said it may even merge with IPM.

"It's really the quant strategies that are attractive and we and IPM are considering expanding on the original joint venture, which may include partial purchase and merger," Masters added.

Posted by guest , Oct 31, 2008 8:40PM

Now people are worried about credit cards? Geez...

Posted by guest , Oct 31, 2008 9:10PM

I want to finger bang Bess

Posted by guest , Nov 01, 2008 3:29AM

Folks:

Are you upside down (in your investment thinking/knowledge and plans)?

Are you ready for this strange investment climate (99.99% of the japanese got flattened by it because they did not understand it).

http://www.marketwarnings.com/2008/11/are-you-ready-for-this-strange.html

Excused those who warned!

Posted by guest , Nov 01, 2008 6:43AM

Nice to see the boys making playing together today. Good choice. I think they both do a fine job.

Posted by guest , Nov 01, 2008 1:04PM

Is anyone familiar with walton st capital?

Posted by guest , Nov 01, 2008 2:55PM

I know Walton - what do you want to know about them?

Posted by guest , Nov 01, 2008 3:41PM

i am in walton street. bring half your money, keep the other half at home. I will meet you in the dark alley there.

I will quick you on your nuts, take the half, you keep the other half.

You agree it is not a bad deal at all

Posted by guest , Nov 01, 2008 10:16PM

@11

I've heard there is quite a shake-up taking place over there. Only reason I'm interested is I was recently offered a job hedging commercial real estate with them. We will see.

Posted by guest , Nov 02, 2008 8:32AM

Interesting pre-election rant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjo85WhbYqM

Posted by guest , Nov 02, 2008 2:05PM

Hey all - I am looking for some help on a project.

With all of the rapid increase in failures in the financial industry, there is an ever increasing threat to information security.

With all of the layoffs and cut-backs there are a lot of shortcuts being taken with our financial data, and we may be setting ourselves up for Financial Terrorism or Warfare.

What if millions of peoples bank accounts were emptied overnight - or even just looked like they were emptied -people would freak and there would be a run on the banks, and our financial system would collapse quicker than we could figure out what happened:

http://tinyurl.com/5sb3a4

"While the world eyes the valuation meltdown in financial services, don’t neglect the danger to regulated systems and data. The pitfalls of underestimating the financial risk of transactions are now apparent; the fallout from underestimating the information security implications of transactions is waiting in the wings. We believe that, in addition to the obvious threat to market stability, the current situation has the added element of national and global security concerns. Misuse of financial systems and information can cause widespread, immediate, and long-lasting disruption to our daily lives and our society."

"It’s hard enough to protect this stuff during good times. With layoffs, cost-cutting, companies folding, projects changing hands, and unhappy workers bearing flash drives, keeping track of these information assets and who touches them is a huge challenge."

If anyone has any experience with mishandling of data, security breaches, or just plain lax protocol - PLEASE CONTACT ME - even if it is just anecdotal, like this:

"Raleigh is where my home office is. An interesting spin for your friend is what happens when a lender like First Magnus shuts their doors and leaves everything behind? I worked for them and on August 16th 2007 they sent out an e-mail and 6,000 employees lost their jobs. There was no warning and none of the management knew before we did. We all left the same day within hours of receiving the e-mail. We left our branch in Houston, with thousands of loan documents piled from floor to ceiling we were told a few months prior to retain every document, they took out the shredders and the secure shred bins that you typically see and use, we were drowning in paper. That paper was duplicate credit reports, bank stmts. duplicate loan app's every bit of personal information imaginable. Not the normal way to disband a financial company. Think about it, I guess the management company of the building who took control of the office after we left was left with all of that. I know that the court gave them permission in the BK to abandon all of leases and property that was left behind. Our computers too, were left behind. 300 offices across the country abandoned. There was an article about Ameriquest (I think it was them) where loan packages were found in dumpsters after they closed.
There are many regulations some federal and some state some pertain to banks only and some are for all financial institutions. As far as hard core data security I have no information about that either. But more lenders are going to paperless and using a shared storage system like Avista. I would recommend she contact some of those vendors and they can point her in the right direction."

Anything you can offer is wonderful!

Thanks ahead of time -

anthonymfreed@gmail.com

Posted by guest , Nov 02, 2008 2:26PM

I hate yahoo.

-General M. Bison

Posted by guest , Nov 02, 2008 2:46PM

MAYO + 6.02*10^23

Posted by guest , Nov 02, 2008 3:32PM

??? mayo avogadro ???

Posted by guest , Nov 02, 2008 3:35PM

mayo molecules per mol?

Posted by guest , Nov 02, 2008 5:50PM

mayo mols?

Posted by guest , Nov 02, 2008 5:58PM

sham wow?

Posted by guest , Nov 02, 2008 7:31PM

chemistry humor never, i mean, never gets old

Posted by guest , Nov 02, 2008 8:19PM

http://media.newsbusters.org/stories/hidden-audio-obama-tells-sf-chronicle-he-will-bankrupt-coal-industry.html?q=blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/11/02/hidden-audio-obama-tells-sf-chronicle-he-will-bankrupt-coal-industry

Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 12:57AM

@22 if your not part of the solution, you're part of the percipitate

Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:10AM

Geez, just read an article on someone's blog linking Joe the Plumber and one of those vapid SNL ladies without any talent, not Tina or Amy but a brunette who was "bumped up" thanks to Amy's bump and for no other reason but that they needed another woman. The world has gone stark raving mad.
http://tinyurl.com/ygrmyd

Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 7:30AM

@26, u r ghey