For the most part we try not to get emotional about the various performances of our favorite funds, as it can often lead to, for example, scar tissue resulting from a deep fryer being knocked over in a fit of rage (especially of late). Today, however, we cannot help but burst with pride, re: certain little green lanterns.
Greenlight Capital, LP, as of the close on 12/31/08:
YTD: -22.85%
Dec 2008: 4.10%
phenomenal! thanks for that ray of hope!
Wonder how he did that?
Cash isn’t paying 4% a month.
@2- who said greenlight went to cash?
slow news day
Never mind.
Still drunk.
Being a himbo.
Nothing to see here.
Shouldn’t be on the desk.
Etc.
@4- day after new year’s? who would’ve thunk it?!
–forehead slapper
They are doing much better this year.
@4- i’d watch it, lest you be served the same fate as Clown Capital.
http://dealbreaker.com/2008/12/holiday-housekeeping.php
I heard this, and by heard i mean, imagine to be the truth.
CIG (that’s Citadel Investment Group people!), 2009 YTD: Down ~50%.
Its only noon in Chicago and Gerbil has already probably blown away his previous years poor-formance.
Take Texas Tech.
FUNNY. THE ILLUMINATI TOLD HIM TO DO SO.
Einhorn believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
That’s nothing. If he were short Kensington, he’d be up 9.35% for the month.
Vol-
Sounds about right.
-mrp
@3 – Look around, if you can’t figure out the idiot in the room it’s probably you.
VOL is trying to get on Bess’s good side by quoting Fitzgerald.
But I think he has misjudged – the girl from Amherst seems to have more of an existential/Kafka/Dostoevsky outlook. Dread, boredom, futility, absurdity, nothingness. I could be wrong, shit faced as I am.
Good work Greenlight.
That picture is completely badass.
@16:
What do you think that quote says exactly? Our life is but a long succession of sisyphean overreachings. A series of endeavors that by their very nature are doomed from the start.
What is more existential than that?
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
TT -4, for 3 units. also thinking UK +3 or even money line…
@ Trojan
Nicely played yesterday (much to my dissapointment), seems Carol & gang actually, ya know, watched tapes so they knew PSU’s secondary was comprised of borderline-parapalegics, sigh…
Also, Utah v. Bama this evening, over/under only @ 46, seems like the over is the pretty obvious bet, no?
@VIK/18,
For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two oclock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet, it hasn’t even begun yet, it not only hasn’t begun yet but there is stll time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armstead and Wilcox look grave yet it’s going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago
@analyst
id watch the lines that seem too obvious- vegas likes to set these traps. if utah comes out like hawaii last year, bama will shut them down and it’ll be under. but if they play up the score could be evenly matched. my book’s been dropping the o/u so heavy action must be for under. im holding off for now… might put 1/2 unit on utah straight up in the name of boise st
Disillusionment of Gatsby
So it finally has happened
So it finally is done
And the dream that always was
Learned that you’d never be the one
I lived nearby across the bay
I kept you near my sight
And just a couple nights ago
I turned off your green light
All the beauty and ideals
All the fantasies and dreams
And all forsaken futures
That you have come to mean
Take them all and leave me
Take our memories and fun
And leave me here with nothing
But the never shining sun
I’d prefer it wasn’t like this
I’d prefer we could be close
And I’d really like to tell you
But my words would be like ghosts
Sure I may deserve this now
Sure I once acted the same
And though I thought nothing could break us
Your eyes have lost their flame
So it finally has happened
So I guess that you were right
And with a tiny dash of negligence
We vanish to the night
Does anyone think that maybe Greenlight cooked those December books, just the way Bernie did for all those years?
@ Trojan
Also seems a blowout (say, with my luck, 42-0) is also possible. Damn you vegas, damn you (KAHNNN)!!!!!!
I’M BLIND!!!!!!!
No news here. Alot of funds had a big December. Even AQR did reasonably well.